Our interdisciplinary research is internationally leading, impactful, and provocative. It's helping to change the world, making lives healthier, safer, more resilient and more just.

Our cross-disciplinary research communities foster interaction and collaboration. Our Institute of Advanced Study is dedicated to advancing new research ideas, characterised by strong interdisciplinarity, innovation and internationalisation. The IAS supports the entire research community to achieve interdisciplinary research excellence.

In addition, many of our research centres and institutes are interdisciplinary in nature, such as the Institute for Global Sustainable Development, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and many of our other University Research Centres.

Many of our partnerships, such as with the Alan Turing Institute are also interdisciplinary in nature.

Interdisciplinarity also extends into our vibrant undergraduate community. Through our Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning, we support interdisciplinary student research across a wide variety of subjects.

Global Research Priorities (GRPs)

Our Global Research Priorities play a crucial role in interdisciplinary research. The GRPs respond to complex multi-faceted global problems that can only be tackled through collaborative research excellence. They unite academics from different disciplines to address some of humanity’s most urgent questions, and create fertile ground for new ideas to flourish and interdisciplinary research to grow - enabling us to improve the lives of people around the world.

A number of additional GRPs are also in the final stages of development and approval, which we hope to launch shortly. Full details will be available on this page once this process is complete. Refreshed websites are currently under development.