This subject area focuses on the theoretical foundations and practical implementations of computing, exploring how complex problems are solved efficiently using computational methods.

 

Spanning topics such as optimisation, graph theory, algorithmic scheduling, distributed systems, and computational complexity, these principles form the foundation of the systems and infrastructure that drive modern technology and innovation.

A long and proud history of international research in Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology

 

Our specialisms include Greek and Roman literature, ancient history, Mediterranean archaeology, British prehistoric and historic archaeology, human evolution, African archaeology, Near Eastern archaeology and Egyptology. 

 

In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 Archaeology was ranked 5th in the UK. We offer post-graduates the opportunity to engage in research-led teaching across a wide range of ancient civilisations and languages, in an academically inspiring environment.

 

Research projects

Discover more about our research project across the 3 subject areas, Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History and Egyptology.

 

Research groups

Explore our research groups that bring together staff and postgraduate students across a range of research topics.

 

PhD students

Find out more about our PhD students, their thesis titles and research interests.

 

REF 2021

100% of our research impact in Archaeology is rated outstanding, find out more about our REF 2021 results.

 

Our experts

Find out more about our experts by browsing by research interests.

 

Research blogs

Our blog gives you an alternative look at our degree courses and bring out the stories behind our research.

 

Research impact

Read our impact case studies and discover more about how our research is helping us to understand the key questions in human history.

The Liverpool School of Architecture (LSA) is an internationally recognised centre for architectural and built environment research.

 

The LSA performed very well in the last Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021): 100% of our research impact is outstanding (4*) or very considerable (3*). 100% of our environment is conducive to generating research that is world leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*). Our research overall (covering outputs, impact and environment) is in the top quarter. We are ranked:

 

• Joint 5th in the sector for research classified as world leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) overall (covering outputs, impact and environment) out of 38 submissions
• 7th in the sector for world leading (4*) outputs out of 38 architecture school submission

 

Research in the School spans Architectural Humanities, Heritage, Environment, Digital Culture, and Design Practice.

 

About

Research within the LSA is structured under the two overarching headings of Architectural Humanities and Environment & Digital Architecture.

 

Impact

International in focus, ambitions, geographical reach and staff base, our research at the Liverpool School of Architecture covers a broad range of research topics.

 

Research Centres

Our interdisciplinary research centres bring together members from across the University, stimulating methodological diversity and outward-facing exchange.

 

Research Clusters

Research clusters are theme-based and provide a platform for discussion of individual work and the development of research synergies among staff members.

Our work spans core AI areas—including machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics—as well as AI+, which reflects the growing convergence of AI with other academic disciplines and real-world application domains.

 

The group maintains strong links with industrial partners such as Amazon and Siemens, and is actively engaged with national research centres like the Alan Turing Institute, highlighting our commitment to developing AI for societal benefit while enhancing research quality and impact. We also make strategic use of facilities such as the Digital Innovation Facility to collaborate with local industry, healthcare providers, and civic organisations, delivering translational research that supports innovation and development across Liverpool and the wider UK.

Bringing together biochemistry, cutting-edge technology and multi-omics approaches to study the chemistry of life. From the study of individual proteins to complex biological systems, we provide vital links between basic and translational research. The department is home to a wide range of academics and research fellows. 

 

The Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine in the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences is working to produce high-impact research with real translational and clinical benefit, to help tackle the challenge of Cardiovascular Disease in the North West, and beyond.

 

Cardiovascular Disease is a significant challenge to the North West of England, where figures show that the rate of deaths due to heart disease are most common.

 

The Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, in partnership with the Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, are utilising a broad range of techniques and facilities to develop world-leading research to aid in tackling this challenge.

 

Research in chemistry at Liverpool focuses on making a significant and sustained long-term impact to the health and wellbeing of society and the environment.

 

Our five research themes exemplify the breadth and depth of our research across the chemical sciences.

 

Materials Chemistry

 

Spanning organic, inorganic, polymeric, hybrid and nanostructured materials.

 

Chemistry of World Health

 

Developing new technologies to combat antimicrobial resistence and advance long-acting drug delivery systems.

 

Chemistry at the Interface

 

Surface and interfaces are where chemistry happens, from electrochemical reactions, catalysis, single molecular junctions to realisations of antimicrobial surfaces.

 

Synthesis and Sustainable Catalysis

 

Foundation of chemistry: focusing on finding new ways to make useful molecules sustainably.

 

Chemical Models, AI and Automation

 

Building models that rationalize the outcome of experiments, predict the outcome of future measurements and molecules lies at the heart of chemistry.

Guided by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and framed around the themes of Sustainable Futures, Environmental and Human Health, and Fluids in Nature, our world-class, multidisciplinary researchers harness cutting-edge experimental and computational facilities to address major global challenges. These include climate change, net-zero engineering solutions, future cities, and infrastructure resilience.

 

The University of Liverpool is a leading Russell Group research institution, with a strong community of globally recognised academics. Our engineering research strength was recognised in the latest Research Excellence Framework 2021, where we were rated 6th in the UK for outstanding impact.

 

Research within the Department spans a broad range of engineering and design disciplines, including structural engineering, sustainable construction materials, geomechanics, water and environmental engineering, coastal sediment dynamics, tidal energy, transportation engineering, biomaterials, and biomechanics. We take an interdisciplinary research approach, working closely with the School of Environmental Sciences and the School of Architecture.

 

Unlocking manufacturing competitiveness for UK industry through digital engineering

 

Unlocking manufacturing competitiveness through cutting-edge digital engineering.

 

Improving the management of glaucoma through biomechanical engineering

 

Improving the management of glaucoma through biomechanical engineering research.

We conduct infection research of direct clinical relevance to humans, centred on improved diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infections. We investigate how pathogens cause disease, and our research aims to better understand the host response to infection and vaccination.

 

Our state-of-the-art research facilities encompass the Ronald Ross Building, a purpose built 5,000m2 facility which includes containment level II and III multi-user laboratories for in vitro and in vivo work, the MerseyBio Incubator, the Biosciences Building and the University’s Leahurst Campus.

 

Our work addresses infections of importance both in the UK and overseas and encompasses diseases in adults and children as relates to brain, respiratory and gastrointestinal disease, as well as HIV, sepsis and emerging zoonotic infections.

 

A range of experimental microbiological, virology and immunological methods and techniques are employed, including -omics analysis, imaging, animal models of infection and clinical trials.

 

We welcome applications from prospective PhD students and Fellowship candidates. Please refer to our research themes to see areas of research we can offer projects on. 

 

Find out more about our staff in the Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology

 

Research Themes

 

• Respiratory infections
• Emerging infections and pandemic threats
• Gastrointestinal infections
• Sepsis and acute host inflammatory conditions
• Neuroscience and infections
• Global health

 

Research Centres

 

 

Cross-cutting expertise

 

The Department has a long-standing reputation for interesting and innovative research which puts different modes of media and communication under critical scrutiny, and explore their various roles in the mediation of political and social values and meanings.

 

Contexts of media production and contexts of media reception have been as important as textual analysis in many of its ventures as has been the wider notions of space and culture which nest mediated social practices.

The interest in contemporary communications is at the heart of our enterprise, though always with a focus on how media from print journalism, online and social communication to film, radio and TV deploy their affordances to communicative and social effect.

 

The Department has a wide range of research interests currently grouped within our four research groups: Culture, Space and Memory; Discourse, Data and Society; Media, Politics and Society; and Screen and Film Studies.

Members of the Department founded the interdisciplinary Digital Media & Society Institute (DMSI) which is located in the Digital Innovation Facility (DIF) at the University of Liverpool. We also undertake innovative research in the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life (CCEL),the Centre for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy (DigiPol),  Language, Data and Society (LANDS) Research Centre and the Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME).

 

Research groups, centres and projects

Our research groups bring together a cluster of ideas and intellectual orientations.

 

Postgraduate research opportunities

Our internationally acclaimed research feeds insights into our teaching.

 

PGR students

Meet our postgraduate research students.

 

Impact

Explore some of the recent research projects from the Communication and Media, and the real-life impact they have had.

 

Communication and Media research away day

Watch a video and slideshow of our recent annual research away day

 

Digital Media & Society Institute (DMSI)

NEW: The University of Liverpool’s Digital Media & Society Institute (DMSI) brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the role and impact of digital media in society today.

The Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences brings together three research groups comprising staff in Earth Sciences, Ocean Sciences, and Ecology and Marine Biology.

 

These three groups address the research themes Geohazards & Tectonics, Future Energy, Deep Earth, Oceans & Climate, and Ecosystem Dynamics. Our world-leading researchers use a wide range of research methods and state-of-the-art laboratory and computational facilities.

 

Research Groups

 

Meet the groups and find out about the research taking place across the Department.

 

Research themes

 

Discover our research themes spanning a range of disciplines around which we concentrate our research activities.

 

Research impact

 

We generate excellent research which can be used to maximum effect in meeting real world challenges.

 

Research facilities

 

A description of the state of the art facilities available.

The Economics group produces world-class theoretical and applied research, with key areas of expertise including applied microeconomics, econometrics, economic theory, and macroeconomics.

 

The group's research combines world-class theoretical, applied, and empirical approaches with a strong focus on the real-world impact of this work.

 

Applied microeconomics

Applied microeconomics research within the group specialises in development, political economy, labour economics, and more.

 

Econometrics

Explore our econometrics research which covers time-series analysis, panel data, financial econometrics, and more.

 

Economic theory

Read more about our economic theory which specialises in game theory, mechanism design, political economy, and more.

 

Macroeconomics

Find out more about macroeconomics research covering monetary policy, international trade, banking, and more.

 

Liverpool Advanced Methods for Big Data Analytics (LAMBDA) Research Centre

Economics group researchers are also closely involved in several interdisciplinary Research Centres and Clusters with the Management School including the LAMBDA Centre.

 

Centre for Sports Business

Economics group researchers are also closely involved in several interdisciplinary Research Centres and Clusters with the Management School including the Centre for Sports Business.

Electrical engineering and electronics at Liverpool is at the forefront of research in this fast-moving discipline and its postgraduate body is one of the largest in the University, encompassing world-class fundamental and applied research.

 

The 2021 Research Excellence Frame Network rated Engineering at Liverpool 6th in the UK for outstanding (4*) impact, and 17th in the UK for world leading (4*) overall quality.

 

Our departmental research spans five key themes which address some of the research challenges and needs of the future. Explore the research themes below.

 

Explore our case studies to see how our research has substantial impact for society.

 

Data science and signal processing

 

Research in data science is focused on developing ground-breaking algorithmic solutions.

 

Energy technologies

 

The research in energy and complex systems covers the modelling of physical processes occurring inside high current and high voltage circuit breakers.

 

Networks and communications

 

Networks and communications is concerned with all related research into telecommunications and computer networks.

 

Sensors, diagnostics and biomedical devices

 

This theme consists of two groups: BioMEMs, organic and silicon electronics, and the mass spectrometry and instrunentation group.

 

Technological plasmas

 

The group's main research activities are experimental and modelling studies of low-temperature technological plasmas and their applications.

 

Mass Spectrometry and Instrumentation

 

Research in this area focuses on the design, implementation and optimisation of innovative analytical instruments.

Ranked top 10 in the UK for research impact classified as outstanding (4*) (REF 2021), the Department of English conducts research in three main areas: literature, language and creative writing. Our work fosters interdisciplinarity and aims to develop strategic partnerships, particularly with local and national cultural organisations to reach those who can benefit from our research.

 

About

The department of English conducts research in three main areas: literature, language and creative writing.

 

Impact

Our research addresses the breadth of speaking, listening, writing, reading, and communicating, in a global language of many variants and in literatures of many types.

 

Public engagement and partnerships

We work with a variety of local, national and international collaborators across a range of sectors including arts institutions, health and social care organisations, charities, festivals and the media.

 

Research clusters and centres

English at Liverpool includes two types of research units: Research Clusters and Research Centres.

 

Postgraduate research opportunities

English at Liverpool provides an inspiring setting in which to pursue postgraduate research.

 

Featured research

Innovation and collaboration are at the heart of the department’s research ethos.

We study the biology of animals, plant and microbes, from the individual to the population-level, to understand the processes driving the natural world.

 

The Department of Eye and Vision Sciences in the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences is working to transform our understanding of the eye and the process of ‘seeing’.

 

Our scientists, engineers and clinicians work from cornea to cortex, and from bench to bedside, to uncover how basic mechanisms, processes and structures relate to vision. Then we investigate how these are affected by ageing and disease. This work is having life-changing results for patients of all ages across the globe.

 

The diseases we study are extensive, but focus on chronic, common and sight-threatening conditions affecting the eye and related structures. We are seeking improved methods of disease prevention and early detection, with new treatment and modes of delivery.

 

The cutting-edge facilities in the University of Liverpool’s new William Henry Duncan Building provide a state-of-the-art hub in which our clinical and non-clinical scientists carry out their research. Our translational research is facilitated and enhanced by our close links with St Paul’s Eye Unit and the Clinical Eye Research Centre, both part of the Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust.

Research Centres

The Accounting and Finance group leads and delivers world-class research, teaching and business collaborations, aimed at developing a meaningful understanding of financial markets, corporate dynamics and the impact of technology, nationally and globally. 

 

Members of the group regularly publish in a range of top scholarly journals, including:

• Journal of Finance
• Review of Financial Studies
• Journal of Financial Economics
• Journal of Accounting and Economics
• Management Science
• Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
• Review of Finance
• The Review of Economics and Statistics
• Journal of Money Credit and Banking
• Journal of Econometrics

 

The group's academics also hold senior editorial positions in prestigious journals and sit on numerous editorial boards.

 

Research themes

Our team is divided in research subgroups focusing in four key themes in accounting and finance.

• Asset pricing and investment
• Corporate finance and accounting
• International financial markets and the macroeconomy
• Financial technology (FinTech)

 

Research centres

Members of our group regularly contribute to inter-disciplinary research projects run by the University's and our School's Research Centres.

 

Find out more about the Management School's Research Centres

 

One of the largest Geography and Planning departments in the UK ranked 14th for Research Power in REF2021, Liverpool has an established international reputation for research excellence with 36% of our publications rated as world-leading 4* (REF2021).

 

Four mature, inclusive, vibrant, and cognate Research Groups drive our world-leading 4* research environment ranked joint 8th in the UK.

 

Our ethos is to undertake research to understand better the physical and human processes shaping our environment and communities, the cognition and utilisation of these processes to support decision-making, and to predict the trajectories and causes of future change.

 

Environmental Change

 

The Environmental Change Group at the University of Liverpool explores past, present and future environmental change at a range of spatial and temporal scales across Earth.

 

Planning, Environmental Assessment and Management

 

Planning, Environmental Assessment and Management is an international research group addressing key planning challenges, from how oceans are managed through to the role of evidence in understanding development impacts.

 

Power, Space and Cultural Change

 

We are a vibrant, collaborative and collegial group of social, cultural, political, economic and historical geographers engaged in theoretically- and methodologically-rigourous, socially meaningful, and empirically grounded work.

 

Geographic Data Science Lab

 

A centre of excellence for research and teaching, solving grand human challenges through geographic data science, working at the intersection between data science and geography.

 

Research impact

 

Research in the University of Liverpool's Department of Geography and Planning has substantial impact.

Protecting and improving health through advanced statistical techniques and clinical trials methods.

 

The increasingly large amount of healthcare data currently collected opens the door to exciting challenges and opportunities. The application of complex statistical approaches can be used to optimise the information available, with the primary goal of improving healthcare delivery processes and interventions in our community and beyond.

 

We focus on the development and application of statistical techniques and clinical trials methodology to address a variety of healthcare problems.

Research centres

 

We bring together over 2,300 staff and 7,500 students across medicine, dentistry, veterinary science, nursing, allied health, biosciences, and psychology. We are the only faculty in the Russell Group to offer this full range of subjects, positioning us to tackle the biggest challenges in health and life sciences from every angle.

 

Our purpose is to improve lives, locally and globally, by tackling major human, animal and environmental health challenges.

 

We do this by bringing together a community of world-changers from across the Faculty, the University and our global networks to deliver excellence and innovation in education and research.

We are an interdisciplinary group of historians committed to an engaged approach to the global past.

 

In the 2021 REF exercise 100% of our research was classified as 4* and 3* for Research Environment. We had a 24% increase in 4* research across our outputs, impact, and environment since the last REF. We place particular emphasis on addressing historical injustices through our work on the Holocaust; medical racism; slavery; and colonial and postcolonial violence. From the far right to climate change, health care, religious intolerance and knife crime, we pride ourselves on using historical research to inform key contemporary debates.

 

Our research centres and research clusters have supported exciting collaborations, successful funding bids, and postgraduate studentships. We have particular strengths in medieval and early modern history, histories of slavery, medicine, and women and gender, animal and environmental histories, transnational histories, urban history, histories of religion and archival studies. Our research also contributes to the University’s major research priorities, including through the Centre for Health, Medical and Environmental Humanities and our work on the Heritage and Slavery and Unfree Labour research themes.

 

We have a strong commitment to the development of postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers, who play an important role in our research community.

 

Research projects

Our historians research diverse topics, ranging from gender and socialism to the history of the relationship between dogs and humans. Explore their research projects.

 

Research centres and clusters

Our research centres and clusters span interdisciplinary areas across the University, from medieval and renaissance studies to contemporary issues like slavery and health.

 

Our expertise

Find out about our experts, and find a supervisor or mentor based on your research interests.

 

Public engagement and impact

Our research has a wide-reaching impact beyond academia, contributing to public debates, government policies, and cultural projects.

 

Facilities

Our facilities include over 1.9 million books, specialized journal collections, and a growing digital archive.

 

PhD research

Our PhD students receive top-tier training, benefit from competitive scholarships, and have earned international recognition.

 

Postdocs and fellows

The department is eager to support postdocs. Find out about the fellowships we offer.

 

Research blogs

Our blogs bring out the stories behind our research.

 

PhD students

View our current PhD student profiles, including their biography and areas of research interest.

The breadth of our expertise in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences creates exciting opportunities for genuinely original, innovative research that brings together diverse disciplines to make a positive impact on the world.

 

Our Schools and Departments provide a focus for world leading subject specialism, while the University's institutes, research centres and groups catalyse cross-cutting research.

 

Many of our teams ranked highly against other UK institutions in REF2021, including Modern Languages Linguistics, Business and Management, Communication and Media Studies, and Law. You can explore many of our REF case studies here.

 

Research undertaken at the Faculty encompasses a wide range of interdisciplinary themes, as well as tackling issues facing communities and societies around the world.

 

We consistently share our knowledge and resources with a wide range of partners. This spirit of cooperation, our ambitious development plans and the research facilities we have make us an excellent place to pursue research.

Research at IDEAS aims to address the grand challenges of today, working with industry to create meaningful impact.

 

The modern world is faced with numerous grand challenges from climate change and energy security to sustainability and healthy ageing. This generation also benefits from exciting advances in computing, robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual engineering.

 

The research being undertaken by IDEAS academics combined with the Virtual Engineering Centre’s expertise in translating blue-sky research to applied industrial applications provide a new model for research industrialisation. This gives academics and industrial partners a unique opportunity for impact.

 

Research at IDEAS is organised into six different labs:

 

The Mixed Reality Laboratory (MR Lab)

 

The Mixed Reality Laboratory within the Digital Innovation Facility incorporates a large-scale Virtual Reality (VR) Powerwall providing up to three independent viewers with their own, accurate head tracked perspective, enabling activities such as collaborative design, object interaction, design reviews or multi person working to be experienced and characterised.

 

Images are displayed on a 5 x 2.5m screen in native 4k resolution at a refresh rate of 360Hz. The MR Lab also features a large, tracked space where physical objects can be located to enhance the simulation experience. Participant and object tracking in this space is to sub-millimetre accuracy, with the capability to capture whole body motion of individuals and represent this in real time simulations, or with enhanced resolution track the motion of a participants fingers and represent this in high fidelity within the immersive simulation.

 

Furthermore, the lab is equipped with an array of Virtual and Augmented Reality head mounted displays for individual experiences, 4k touch screens for visualisation and interaction, and scanning technologies to allow the accurate capture and visualisation of existing environments or objects.

 

Activities within the MR Lab are focused on the solution of real-world industrial problems across all industry sectors, with particular emphasis on the realisation of complex high-fidelity digital test beds and twins of industrial systems and processes.

 

Autonomous Chemistry Laboratory

 

The Autonomous Chemistry Laboratory is led by Professor Andy Cooper, the Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design and the Materials Innovation Factory.

 

They are creating the “Laboratory of the Future”, a self-driving, autonomous scientific laboratory powered by artificial intelligence and robotics, which will develop heterogeneous robotic platforms (“robotic chemists”) and custom-designed automated workflows to provide a step change in the use of automation for chemistry and materials science environments.

 

Extreme Environment Laboratory

 

The Extreme Environment Laboratory’s research focuses on the design, manufacture, analysis and testing of highly automated or autonomous land-based and aerial robotic systems for use in real-world missions.

 

The laboratory will focus on the development and evaluation of novel algorithms, sensors and, where necessary, platforms that will work in environments beyond that of the laboratory. The laboratory is reconfigurable and is specifically designed to allow complex industrial structures to be introduced into it, such that the both the robotic system’s as well as its component part’s ability to deal with realistic scenarios can be fully investigated and assessed.

 

Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory

 

The Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory is focused on developing theories, algorithms, and tools to detect, verify, and enhance the safety and security of learning-enabled autonomous systems. It is also developing techniques to enhance the transparency, fairness, and privacy of such systems. In particular, the laboratory has world leading research on the safety verification and safety assurance of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS).

 

The laboratory works within several application areas, including Robotics (e.g. self-driving cars and underwater vehicles), Internet of Things (e.g. wireless sensor networks), Healthcare (e.g. medical diagnosis through brain imaging and human activity recognition), and Data Analytics (e.g. natural language processing, social media analytics, data mining and knowledge discovery).

 

The research activities are currently supported by a number of funding agencies including the European Commission, EPSRC, and the Ministry of Defence (through Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Dstl).

 

Immersive Laboratory

 

The Immersive Laboratory was founded on Collaborative Multisensory VR, from a recent EPSRC project “CASMS: Context Aware network architectures for the Sending of Multiple Senses” and is part of the University of Liverpool’s “Advanced Network Research Group” which also researches network security and the Internet of Things (IoT).

 

The Immersive Laboratory investigates the sharing, synchronicity, and replication of sensory information at multiple sites (currently Liverpool and London) for future “Tactile Internet” applications – such as online shopping, entertainment (gaming), delivery of training, and remote medical care (e.g., patient isolation) beyond basic teleconferencing. The user’s immersion, sense of presence and co-presence between multiple users, is then evaluated through user trials in collaboration with the University’s Department of Psychology.

 

This includes multidisciplinary research in the areas of traditional visual and audio senses, but also more esoteric senses such as:

• Haptics and Tactile (sense of touch) - through haptic manipulators, thermal gloves, and proxy object presentation/interactions using collaborative robotics
• Olfaction (sense of smell) - using our in-house developed “Odour Displays” and gas detector signal processing
• Gustation (sense of taste) - through VR-driven automated food preparation technologies as part of a future project proposal.

 

SmARTLab

 

SmARTLab is a state-of-the-art robotics laboratory at the Department of Computer Science.

 

The lab is affiliated with the Centre for Autonomous Systems Technology (CAST) and the Digital Innovation Facility (DIF). Research focuses on robot perception and learning, with applications to autonomous manipulation and navigation.

We focus on how pathogens interact with their hosts at the molecular and cellular level, with the aim of designing better diagnostics, vaccines, and drugs.

 

Our challenges

 

Our research addresses local, national and international priorities, supporting improvements to health and driving economic growth. Within the School of Veterinary Science, we undertake basic clinical research supporting the health of domestic and companion animals. We also undertake ecological research to support sustainable ecosystems.

 

Our programmes of research on infectious diseases of people and animals, including zoonotic diseases that spread between them, span all scales, from the gene to the population. We are a leading centre for research into emerging diseases, including SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, Zika, parasitic and vector-borne diseases.

 

Our research challenges

 

• Food security
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Adaptation to environmental change
• Emerging infectious diseases

 

Centres of Excellence

 

• NERC Environmental Omics Facility
• Microbiome Innovation Center
• The Pandemic Institute
• Liverpool Interdisciplinary Science Centre (LINC)

 

Research Centres

 

• NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections (HPRU EZI)
• Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections
• One Health Regional Network for the Horn of Africa
• Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Centre