Specialist Centres
*SIMBIOS
The research team based at Abertay’s SIMBIOS centre are world renowned for their work with soils and ecosystems with leading academics from around the world having joined the team in recent years. The team work across a number of areas including using soil science to understand climate change.
SIMBIOS works collaboratively with the Abertay Centre for Environment (ACE) Eco-partnerships and the Urban Water Technology Centre. Academics and students from ACE Eco-partnerships offer expertise to SMEs to identify commercially viable environmental solutions for their waste and other outputs from products and processes. Research areas include Anaerobic Digestion (AD), Biofuels and Yeast Fermentation.
*Urban Water Technology Centre
The Urban Water Technology Centre works with academics from other areas in the University and industry experts to carry out a number of research and consultancy projects associated with wastewater and environmental management. A current major project involves the creation of a decision support tool for sustainable urban planning.
*Abertay Centre for the Environment
*Food Innovation@abertay
Food Innovation@abertay (FIA) is a practical innovation support service for the Scottish food and drink industry. Based at the University of Abertay Dundee's School of Contemporary Sciences, FIA provides food and drink companies with expert practical support and advice for innovation, as well as access to other useful services and facilities. FIA has worked with over 50 companies on a range of projects, working for example on the reformulation of products to reduce fat and salt.
The following are the main FIA services:
- Reformulation of products to reduce fat and salt content
- New product development
- Product analysis
- Nutritional advice and analysis
- Consumer Taste Panel
- Food styling and food photography
- Food hygiene, food safety & HACCP
- SALSA & BRC advice
- Marketing and consumer research advice
- Hire of specialist facilities including test kitchens
*White Space Research (WhSpR) - a pun, as White Space is primarily for games designers, and white space is the unimportant part of a program's code
*Scottish Economic Research (SER)
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