Expertise

We have expertise in areas such as food inequlities, food security, obesity, population health, health services research, health economics, medical education, understanding how the human body fuctions, and dentistry.

The School of Engineering has excellent workshops and laboratories dedicated to particular areas of work such as satellite communications, computer aided design, electrical machines, materials testing, laser welding, hydraulics and fluids, concrete, large structures and geotechnics.

The School of Natural and Computing Sciences consists of four departments: Chemistry, Computing Science, Mathematics, and Physics. Our research is high quality and often outward facing, with many interactions with other disciplines, with public bodies, and with industry.

The School of Geosciences incorporates four departments: Archaeology, Geography and Environment, Geology and Geophysics, and Planetary Sciences. Our research ranges across the whole of the geosciences in both the social and natural sciences.

Our research addresses the fundamental biological consequences of environmental change and is shaped around three research programmes: Ecology and Evolution, Integrative Environmental Physiology, and Biological Interactions in Soil.

Our Business School is internationally recognised for its excellence in world-leading research. It was also ranked 2nd in the UK for Accounting and Finance, 11th for Business Management Studies and 16th for Economics in the Guardian University Guide 2023.

We cover subjects such as Banking and Financial Law, Energy Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Economic Law, Private Law, Public Law, EU Law, Scots Law, Criminal Justice, Commercial Law, Family Law, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, and more.

We have a wide range of expertise in areas such as teaching, counselling, and early years. We also offer a dynamic and inclusive research culture, where students collaborate with our staff and professional partners to investigate the complexities of education and its underpinning values and beliefs.

Research within the School of Psychology is structured around three themes: cognition, perception and attention, and social cognition. Within these themes, specialist groups conduct research funded by research councils, government, charitable groups, and industry.

The School of Social Science is a thriving centre for teaching and research in the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Politics and International Relations. We are committed to producing research of the highest quality across a range of subjects.

The School is home to a wide range of disciplines, including: english, music, modern languages and cultures, language and linguistics (including communication and TESOL), film and visual culture, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon studies, and translation and interpreting.

Divinity studies theology and religion in its historical and contemporary contexts. History is the study all aspects of human adventure - past and modern. Philosophy covers subjects fundamental to human thought and experience. Art History studies art and architecture from the Middle Ages to today.

The Aberdeen Centre for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Health seeks to understand mechanisms of disease onset and outcome in inflammatory arthritis, osteoarthritis and conditions with chronic pain as a key feature.

The goals of this interdisciplinary Centre are to improve our understanding of bacterial infections, elucidate the role and the importance of bacteria in our health and promote the development of innovative therapies.

Our research is aimed at understanding the roles that stem cells (the cells that can give rise to new joint tissues) and stromal cells (the supporting connective tissue cells) in the joint play in the pathogenesis of arthritis.

Our work is investigating the ways in which normal and abnormal embryonic, foetal and postnatal development impact on development, health and disease.

The Rowett Institute Gut Health theme addresses several challenges that impact on our food system to understand the complex interplay between diet and health.

The Infection and Immunity Programme embraces a range of research topics with emphasis on molecular mechanisms of infection and host defence.

We aim to understand the links between diet and physiology at a mechanistic level and in the context of the social influences driving dietary habits.

Our world-class fundamental, clinical and interdisciplinary research is aimed at elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underpinning life-long human health and disease.

Translational neuroscience uses a diverse range of experimental models and approaches to study neuronal function and malfunction, from single genes and molecules to humans.

The existing areas of strength which underpin the Centre are grouped into 3 priority areas: understanding risk factors, improved diagnosis, and developing new medication.