Research areas
Challenge-led research creating transformative impact
World-leading research at Aston University
Our mission is to deliver research that changes lives for the better. As a public research university, we foster collaboration between students, academics and industry leaders, bringing together people from all backgrounds and disciplines in the pursuit of knowledge, academic excellence, and a better world.
Research takes place within our academic colleges:
- College of Business and Social Sciences
Academics engage in research across a wide range of areas in business, the social sciences and humanities. For a general overview of the research learn more here.
Aston Business School
Accounting
Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship
Marketing and Strategy
Operations and Information Management
Work and OrganisationAston Law School
LawSchool of Social Sciences and Humanities
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Aston Centre for Europe
Centre for Critical Inquiry into Society and Culture
Centre for Language Research at Aston- College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Key fields of research include photonics, low carbon energy sources, renewable bioproducts, and innovative technologies that will enhance urban life all over the world. For a general overview of the research learn more here.
School of Engineering and Technology / School of Computer Science and Digital Technology
Engineering and Technology
Computer Science and Digital Engineering
Aston Institute of Photonic TechnologiesSchool of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering
Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering
Energy and Bioproducts Research Institute (EBRI)
Aston Institute for Urban Technologies and the Environment (ASTUTE)- College of Health and Life Sciences
The College of Health and Life Sciences specialise in four key multidisciplinary themes of cellular and molecular biomedicine, health and disease across the lifespan, clinical and systems neuroscience, and vision, cognition, and language. For a general overview of the research learn more here.
Aston Medical School
Medicine
Translational Medicine Research GroupSchool of Biosciences
Biosciences
Biosciences Research Group
Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing
Aston Centre for Membrane Protein and Lipid ResearchAston Pharmacy School
Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical and Clinical Pharmacy Research Group
Pharmacology and Translational Neuroscience Research GroupSchool of Optometry
Optometry
Optometry and Vision Science Research GroupSchool of Psychology
Psychology
Applied Health Research Group
Cognition and Neuroscience Research GroupResearch institute
Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment (IHN)
Our University Research Institutes (URIs) and research centres
At the heart of our research ecosystem, our research centres and five accredited institutes link expertise within our colleges to our beneficiaries. They address real-world problems through interdisciplinary work and utilise shared facilities to push the boundaries of knowledge.
We strongly recommend that you explore our departmental web pages, before applying, so that you can better position your research proposal to fit with academics' current research interests. You can learn more about our specialist research programmes here.
ImageAston University is arguably the best place to do postgraduate work in Forensic Linguistics within the English-speaking world. It is such a niche field so not many universities have programmes in it or supervisors that would be qualified to supervise projects. Dr Madison Hunter, PhD student, 2019-2022, Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
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