One of the world's leading centres for environmental research
Leeds has built its name on pioneering research
Our team of committed researchers work across the world, on projects that take them from the busy metropolitan cities of Europe, to the hot deserts of Africa and into the Arctic circle.
Their dedication to innovative research is yielding new knowledge and technologies that shape the decisions of business, policy makers, and NGOs, the world over.
Faculty Research Groups
- Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP)
- Citizenship and Belonging
- Earth Surface Science Institute (ESSI)
- Ecology and Global Change
- Economics
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS)
- Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics (IGT)
- Modelling (Transport)
- River Basin Processes and Management
- Sustainability Research Institute (SRI)
- Safety and Technology (Transport)
- Sustainable Transport Policy
- Urban Culture and Consumption
Cross Faculty Research Groups
- Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP)
- Centre for Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Earth, Energy and Environment (EEE)
- Centre for Integrated Petroleum
Engineering and Geosciences (CiPEG) - Leeds Centre for Polar Science
- National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
- Water@Leeds (Water Research at Leeds)