University of Derby

At the heart of our University's strategic framework is a simple promise to make an impact: everything we do is driven by delivering excellence and opportunities for our students, staff and region. This promise is embedded in our research, knowledge creation and innovation activity too: it's all focused on making a practical, positive difference to people’s lives regionally, nationally and globally.

We are committed to delivering research that makes a real-world impact and our ground-breaking discoveries. Our research is focused into six research themes that are aligned to some of the local and global challenges we face. The interdisciplinary nature of our research enables us to deliver impactful and innovative solutions, concepts and technologies. We are committed to delivering research that makes a real-world impact. Our discoveries directly link back into our curriculum with our students receiving the most up-to-date and inspiring education possible.

You can browse through our themes below to see how we've already made a difference to health, business, education, the environment, communities, arts and culture, and many other areas of society.

Our research in the biomedical and clinical field is focused on ways to prevent and treat diseases, improving the health, wellbeing and care of people.

Creative and Cultural Industries is one of our six research themes. Our research in this area is helping to build a socially responsive and engaged creative and cultural sector.

Our Data Science research builds on the academic expertise in the data science field. We develop collaborations with academics in a range of other discipline areas to extend the scale and impact of in...

Our research in this area aims to make a real difference to business, economy and society regionally, nationally and internationally.

Our research in this area brings together the disciplines of education; psychology, wellbeing, and therapeutics; nursing, health, allied health professions and social care; and criminal justice and po...