Research and Innovation

Research Institutes

Our Institutes are at the heart of our research, spanning our academic faculties to bring researchers together from across the university to help solve the world's greatest challenges.

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Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI)

The University of Exeter Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) provides a hub for data-intensive science and artificial intelligence (AI) activity within the University and the wider region.

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Environment and Sustainability Institute

The Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) is an interdisciplinary centre leading cutting-edge research into the problems of, and solutions to, environmental change. The world class research and education undertaken by the ESI aims to support natural systems for more sustainable futures

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Global Systems Institute

The Global Systems Institute (GSI) is thought-leading in understanding global changes, solving global challenges and helping create a flourishing future world together, through transformative research, education and impact.

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Living Systems Institute (LSI)

The Living Systems Institute (LSI) pioneers interdisciplinary science aimed at understanding and controlling the individual and collective properties of cells, the basic units of all life.

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Societies and Cultures Institute

The Societies and Cultures Institute cultivates interdisciplinary HASS research to deliver world-leading research for wider public benefit