Our Research Centres

Applied Performance Sciences

Director: Dr Stephen Patterson

Centre for Applied Social and Health Sciences

Director: Dr Anne Majumdar

The Centre for the Art of Dying Well

Director of the Centre: Margaret Doherty

Bakhita Centre for Research on Slavery, Exploitation and Abuse

Director: Dr Carole Murphy

Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies

Director: Associate Prof Matt James

Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society

Director: Prof Stephen Bullivant

Centre for Catholic Education, Research and Religious Literacy

Director: Vacant TBC

Initiatives in Spirituality and Reconciliation

Director: Prof Peter Tyler

Joseph Conrad Studies

Co-directors: Prof Allan Simmons and Dr Kim Salmons

Law and Culture

Director: Dr Judith Bourne

Centre for History and Public Pasts

Directors: Dr Mark Donnelly and Dr Claire Norton

Research into the Education of Marginalised Children and Young Adults

Director: Associate Professor Kathleen Fincham

Sport, Wellbeing, Inclusion, Faith (SWIFT)

Centre for the Study of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity

Director: Prof Chris Keith