Find out about the range of first-rate facilities used by the staff and students of the Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Research Institute (BEST) including labs for radio frequency and microwave sensors, highways research, industrial chemistry, soil mechanics, hydraulics, surveying, light structures and materials, structural testing, and concrete.
Within the Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Research Institute our areas of expertise are: constructions management and economics, facilities management and real estate management, radio frequency and microwave technologies, materials technology and environmental technologies. Find out more about each of these areas.
Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies Research Institute
The latest national assessment of research excellence (the REF2021) confirmed the high quality of research carried out under the roof of our research centre.
Need more information about the work conducted at the Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour? Get in touch with us via the links on this page.
The Suicide and Self-Harm Research Group builds on existing areas of excellence in research and aligns with the national suicide prevention strategy (2019)
Find out more about BEST's expertise in sustainable resource processing and planning.
The Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism Group within RISES are involved in health, wellbeing, recovery and sporting performance. Our research into exercise metabolism and adaptation is applicable to the design of interventions that improve human health.
The Absolute Chemistry Research Group is dedicated to practices of Outreach, Public Engagement and Widening Participation.
The Galaxy Formation and Evolution Research Group looks at population studies of dwarf galaxies up to the most massive clusters of galaxies, supermassive black holes and detailed modelling of the internal structure of galaxies. Discover more about our expertise, who we work with and meet the researchers.