Research
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) the university achieved significant ratings in Business and Management; Health; Education; History; Metallurgy and Materials; English; Drama, Dance and Performing Arts; Art and Design; and Asian Studies.
Research, consultancy and knowledge transfer at the university is centred around a number of cognate research groupings, including:
- Advanced Technologies Research Group
- Centre for Health and Wellbeing Research
- Centre for Practice-led Research in the Arts
- Centre for Special Needs Education and Research
- East Midlands Centre for Non-Destructive Testing
- Institute for Creative Leather Technologies
- Natural Environment Research Group
- NVision (immersive projection technologies and modelling centre)
- Science and Technology Research in Pedagogy (STRiPe)
- The Biosciences Research Group
- The Centre for Children and Youth takes an interdisciplinary and multi method approach to the study of children and young people.
- The Centre for Contemporary Narrative and Cultural Theory
- The Centre for Entrepreneurship, Enterprise and Governance (CEEG)
- The Centre for Sustainable Wastes Management
- The Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP)
- The Social and Cultural Research in Psychology Group (SCRIP) explores intersection of psychological, social and cultural issues.
It also carries out internationally renowned research into lift engineering and technology, using the Express Lift Tower in the town, reflecting the town's now historic role in lift manufacturing.
It also provides numerous other business support schemes and programmes for new companies. These are often run through the university’s Sunley Management Centre. Other schemes run by the university include an art loan facility for offices or conferences. The university has also provided lab facilities for the Channel 4 programme “How Clean Is Your House”.
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