Research

Fourteen institutes, one question at a time - and undergraduates at the bench from their first year.
An archival photograph of a chemist at work in a college laboratory
The Harwell Laboratory, 1968. Aldermere chemists have worked on this site for a century.

Our institutes

Questions worth a lifetime

Our 14 research institutes bring historians, engineers and physicians to the same table - and invite undergraduates to join them from their first year.

  1. Institute for Climate and LandscapeRestoring river valleys with the farmers who work them.
  2. Centre for Manuscript StudiesReading medieval books with light, chemistry and patience.
  3. Aldermere Health LabClinical trials designed with the patients they serve.
  4. The ObservatoryDark skies, variable stars and a 1911 refractor.
  5. Institute for Public ReasoningHow democracies argue, decide and change their minds.

Research in numbers

14
Research institutes and centres
$96m
Research income last year
1,200
Doctoral researchers
60%
Of undergraduates join a research project

Latest findings

Research news

All research news

Support Aldermere

Gifts to the Aldermere Fund pay for one scholarship in three.

Make a gift