Strategic Research Themes
Our Strategic Research Themes provide the structure for growing challenge-led and interdisciplinary collaboration. Our Strategic Research Theme competition delivered £1 million annual investment into challenge-led doctoral research.
Research Collaboration
We support research collaboration through our portfolios of programmes and initiatives:
- UK Healthy Ageing Consortium
- Eastern Africa Centre
- SMART and Accelerator capacity builds in collaborative grant-writing
- VCSE Data and Insights National Observatory
- Doctoral Training Consortia: the BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership, the ESRC Midlands Graduate School, and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Resilient Chemistry
- Institute for Knowledge Exchange Practice
- East Midlands Emerging RehabTech Growth Enterprise (EMERGE)
We support public engagement and knowledge exchange through our award-winning Re:search Re:imagined podcasts.
Find out more about our programme of workshops on writing for non-academic audiences on MyHub.
Open Research
Our Open Research Position Statement and Action Plan explain how we are embedding our core open research values of accessibility, reproducibility, reliability, and inclusivity, into the ways we plan, perform, deliver, assess, and communicate our research. We recognise and reward research that exemplifies our values in our Open Research in Practice Case Studies.
Our case studies showcase how NTU academic, technical and research-enabling staff are contributing to the development of open communities and knowledge, as well as utilising open methods and infrastructure. Open research and data management best practice are supported and endorsed through institutional policy, as well as advice, training and initiatives that are co-delivered by our professional services, disciplinary open research experts and practitioners, including the Library's Academic Engagement Team: Open Research.
Open Research
NTU is committed to facilitating and maintaining a culture of Open Research, unlocking the power of research for real-world change.
Images of Research Competition 2025
Can you capture the essence of your research with a single image? The annual Images of Research Competition is now open for submissions.