Research Collaborations

Selected research centres

Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx)

This innovative research group investigates human decision-making using theoretical and experimental methods. CeDEx has a global reach, produces cutting-edge research with societal impact and is consistently highly ranked in the field of behavioural economics.

The Nottingham Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP)

GEP is the major centre in Europe studying the impact of globalisation and economic policy and one of the biggest of its kind in the world. It has a well-founded reputation in the study of international trade, foreign direct investment, immigration and the political economy of globalisation.

Selected research links

UNESCO

The school has links with UNESCO as the United Nation's specialised agency for education as well as being a UNEVOC network member.

Centre for International Education Research (CIER)

The centre is engaged in research that seeks to understand and enable education as a lifelong and life-wide practice that should promote social and ecological justice, equality, citizenship and democracy. 

Selected research themes

Economic Worlds

This theme is a vibrant and internationally recognised research cluster. They undertake research on a dynamic range of contemporary economic geographical phenomena and processes.

Environment and Society

This theme encompasses research that broadly considers environment-society relationships. Much of their work is framed by concepts of the Anthropocene and sustainable development including the social, cultural and political contexts within which environmental issues and governance strategies are embedded.

Selected research centres

Human Rights Law Centre

The centre carries out work by means of research, training, publications and capacity building. It collaborates with governments, intergovernmental organisations, academics, students and civil society, and it has implemented programmes worldwide.

Public Procurement Research Group

PPRG provides a focus for supporting research and teaching on public procurement within the School of Law, as well as promoting understanding of this subject on a wider basis. 

Selected research centre

Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies

CRISPI is the leading centre for the study of ideas and ideologies worldwide. It is the home of the Journal of Political Ideologies.

Selected research centres

Identities, Citizenship, Equalities and Migration Centre (ICEMiC)

ICEMiC brings together researchers who are concerned both with continuity and change; the global and the local; macro level structural forces and micro level everyday practices and experience.

International Centre for Public and Social Policy

With a focus on global social justice, members of this centre undertake research on a number of social and public policy developments at local, regional, national and transnational level. The activities of the icPSP include high-impact publications and events; academic teaching and professional training; and engagement with policy-makers, practitioners and local communities.