Research Institutes, Centres and Areas

Elphinstone Institute

The Institute was established to introduce the study of human traditions into its research portfolio, especially the traditions of the North and the North-East of Scotland. The people of this relatively vast area have experienced major changes over the past three centuries: depopulation (the Highland Clearances and two World Wars), agricultural revolution, and North Sea Oil among them. Charting such changes in the past and the present and studying and explaining the cultural and psychological upheaval that goes with them is central to the Institute's activities such as conferences, lectures, workshops and publications.

Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS)

The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies was the first of its kind in the world when it was established in 1999. It is a unique interdisciplinary centre of excellence which carries out research in the history, literature and culture of Ireland and Scotland as well as providing taught masters and doctoral programmes of the highest quality.  It involves the academic of colleagues from across the College but particualrly from the Schools of Divinity, History and Philosophy and Language & Literature. 

• Aberdeen Centre for Russian and East European History
• Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law
• Centre for Early Modern Studies
• Centre for Energy Law
• Centre for European Labour Market Research (CELMR)
• Centre for Gender Studies
• Centre for Global Security and Governance
• Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Centre for Modern Thought
• Centre for the Novel
• Centre for Private International Law
• Centre for Real Estate Research
• Centre for Scandinavian Studies
• Centre for the Study of Spirituality, Health and Disability
• Northern Institute of Philosophy
• Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research