The Scottish research pooling initiatives, which pull together research strengths in various disciplines across Scotland, encourage and enable collaboration with partners in other Scottish research universities. The College is a partner in the Scottish Research Partnership in Engineering (SRPe) through the Northern Research Partnership (NRPe), the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA), Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA), the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES), the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), and is an associate member of ScotChem, the Scottish Chemistry Alliance.