Research

Cambridge is one of the world's leading research universities. It has more than 80 Nobel Prizes to its credit, more than any other single university in the world.

Graduate Research

• Graduate Studies Prospectus 2009-2010

Research by School & Department

• Arts and Humanities [expand for links to research in departments & faculties]
  • Faculty of Architecture
  • History of Art
  • Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Faculty of Classics
  • Faculty of Divinity
  • Faculty of English
  • Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
  • Faculty of Music
  • Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Faculty of Philosophy
  • Centre of South Asian Studies
  • Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
  • Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics
• Biological Sciences, including Veterinary Medicine [link to research overview]
• Clinical Medicine [link to research overview]
• Humanities and Social Sciences [link to research overview]
• Physical Sciences [expand for link to research in departments & faculties]
  • Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
  • Astronomy
  • CamBridgeSens - sensor research across the University
  • Chemistry
  • Earth Sciences
  • Geography
  • Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
  • Materials Science
  • Physics
  • Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
  • Scott Polar Research Institute
  • Statistical Laboratory
• Technology [expand for link to research in departments & faculties]
  • CamBridgeSens - sensor research across the University
  • Computer Laboratory
  • Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology
  • Engineering
  • Judge Business School

• → Research in Research Centres and Institutes

Strategic research initiatives

The University has developed and is developing a number of interdisciplinary initiatives. Current ones include:

• Cambridge Cancer Centre
• Cambridge Computational Biology Initiative
• Cambridge Conservation Initiative
• Cambridge Environmental Initiative
• Cambridge Immunology
• Cambridge Infectious Disease
• Cambridge Neuroscience
• Energy Research at the University of Cambridge
• Physics of Medicine

Research news links

• A research overview from the University's Annual Report
• Forthcoming events and talks in What's on? and talks.cam
• University of Cambridge's research magazine Research Horizons
• DSpace - the repository of research output of the University of Cambridge
• A first look at new developments in the most exciting areas of science and technology at Horizon seminars

International collaboration

• Directory of Experts and International Links

The title of this document is: University of Cambridge: Research Excellence
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/

Research News

19 November 2009

Royal opening for Cosmology research building
The Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, today opened a new building housing the Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

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17 November 2009

£17 million awards add to momentum of UK neurodegenerative disease research

10 November 2009

Cambridge team wins Grand Prize for iGEM 2009

The impact of 800 years of Cambridge research

Major Cambridge researchers

Nobel Prize winners

Research overview

Awards & prizes

Research income

League tables

Research assessment exercise: 2008 results

Research assessment exercise: 2008 Cambridge results synopsis

Research assessment exercise: 2008 Cambridge profile

How research works

Research policies and support

Cambridge Enterprise

Cambridge cluster

Links with industry

Research degrees and jobs

Job opportunities page

Information for prospective Contract Research Staff

Graduate School of Life Sciences

Graduate School of Life Sciences research database