​​​​​​​The following links provide more information on those research centres based within the school.

• 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