Centres and Institutes
The majority of research at the University of St Andrews takes place within academic schools. However, the University also supports a large number of world-class, often cross-discipline or cross-institutional, research centres or institutes:
- Centre: a group concerned, generally, with research collaboration
- Institute: a group concerned with research collaboration as well a providing undergraduate or postgraduate teaching
The research centres and institutes associated with academic Schools at the University of St Andrews are:
Art History
- Centre for French History and Culture
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies (CRSCEES)
- Museums, Galleries and Collections Institute (MGCI)
- St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Biology
- Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC)
- Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM)
- Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution
- Centre of Magnetic Resonance (CMR)
- Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences (IBANS)
- Organic Semiconductor Centre (OSC)
- Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI)
- Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU)
Chemistry
- Biomedical Sciences Research Complex (BSRC)
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre of Magnetic Resonance (CMR)
- Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences (IBANS)
- Organic Semiconductor Centre (OSC)
Classics
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for the Study of Ancient Systems of Knowledge (LOGOS)
- St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Computer Science
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra (CIRCA)
Divinity
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies (CRSCEES)
- Centre for the Study of Ancient Systems of Knowledge (LOGOS)
- Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics
- Institute for Bible, Theology & Hermeneutics
- Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts
- St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Economics and Finance
- Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis (CDMA)
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance and the Firm (CRIEFF)
English
- Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature
- Centre for the Study of Ancient Systems of Knowledge (LOGOS)
- St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Geography and Geosciences
- Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Centre for Geoinformatics (CGI)
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Housing Research (CHR)
- Centre for Population Change (CPC)
(jointly with the University of Southampton) - Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM)
- Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland (LSCS)
(jointly with the General Register Office for Scotland) - Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI)
- St Andrews Sustainability Institute (SASI)
History
- Centre for French History and Culture
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature
- Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies (CRSCEES)
- Institute for Environmental History
- Institute for Iranian Studies
- Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS)
- Institute of Scottish Historical Research
- Reformation Studies Institute
- St Andrews Centre for Transnational History
- St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
International Relations
- Centre for French History and Culture
- Centre for Global Constitutionalism (CGC)
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
- Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central, Eastern European Studies (CRSCEES)
- Centre for the Study of Ancient Systems of Knowledge (Logos)
- Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics
- Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV)
- Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS)
Management
- Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance (RBF)
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR)
- Institute for Capitalising on Creativity (ICC)
- Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU)
(jointly with the University of Edinburgh) - Social Dimensions of Health Institute (SDHI)
(jointly with the University of Dundee) - St Andrews Sustainability Institute (SASI)
Mathematics and Statistics
- Centre for Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra (CIRCA)
- Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling (CREEM)
- Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI)
Medicine
Modern Languages
- Centre for French History and Culture
- Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies (CRSCEES)
- Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics
- Institute for Contemporary and Comparative Literature (ICCL)
- Institute of European Cultural Identity Studies (IECIS)
- Linguistics Institute of St Andrews
- St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies
- Centre for Amerindian Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CAS)
- Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies
- Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
- Centre for Film Studies
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre for Pacific Studies
- Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies (CRSCEES)
- Centre for the Study of Ancient Systems of Knowledge (LOGOS)
- Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics
- Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS)
- Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistomology (Arché)
- St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Physics & Astronomy
- Centre for Higher Education Research (CHER)
- Centre of Magnetic Resonance (CMR)
- Organic Semiconductor Centre (OSC)
- Photonics Innovation Centre (PIC)