Our brave approach to research is opening the door to bright new ideas and endless possibilities. For colleagues and students, we’re disrupting the research landscape to enable bright minds to rise up and make a difference. For businesses we’re redefining what it means to engage with our community. For our community, we’re creating new opportunities to build and grow.
Research is about more than writing papers and proposing new ideas. It’s about bringing together the brightest minds to reimagine research and find the answers to the questions that really matter.
Our world-leading research strengths focus on three areas
Cultural Heritage
Developing innovative ways to reveal, restore and protect artefacts, traditions and historic sites across the world.
Medical Technologies
Creating breakthroughs in diagnostics, treatments and assistive technologies that transform health and wellbeing.
Optics and Imaging
Pioneering advanced photonics, imaging and nanotechnologies with applications from flat-screen displays to cultural preservation.
Award-winning research
In the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, 86% of NTU’s research impact was assessed to be either world-leading or internationally excellent.
Our cultural heritage science research at NTU has earned a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education: the highest national honour for a UK university.
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