- Centre for Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies
- Centre for Linguistic Research
- Centre for Modern Languages Research
- Centre for the Novel
- Elphinstone Institute
- George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture
- Performing the Past (research group)
- SERG (Sound Emporium Research Group)
- Sir Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History
- Walter Scott Research Centre
- WORD Centre for Creative Writing