
Community Design cluster
The Community Design Cluster (CDC) puts together faculties, students and practitioners in the area to work on community-based design and planning.

Design & Digital cultures
A new research and scholarship cluster that is grounded in architecture, visual arts and digital technology.

Environment, Sustainability and Technology in Architecture (ESTA)
Investigating low carbon architecture, the impact of climate change on buildings, innovative material technologies and the operational and embodied carbon of sustainable design.

Experimental Material Ecologies Research Group [EMERG]
Exploring the material ecologies associated with construction materials and to inform the development of sustainable solutions for the built environment.

Health cluster
Bringing together researchers with shared interests in the complex and omnipresent associations between human health and the built environment.

Heritage cluster
Undertaking research and impact work ,and leading a postgraduate taught programme in heritage management.

History of Architecture Research cluster
HARC pursues research on the past of the built environment, with the aim of understanding the present, and helping to shape a better future.

Housing cluster
Leading a series of research and pedagogic programmes in urban housing, finding different forms in teaching, exhibits, publications and events.

Practice and Pedagogy
Celebrating the diverse and rich pedagogic approaches, scholarship and practices the school delivers in its courses and public engagement.

Sustainable cities
Research in the humanities and social sciences with a focus on sustainability and climate change from the scale of buildings to cities.

Urban Form and Social Space
Investigating the production and transformation of the built environment and the social and political dynamics of design and planning.

Women of the Welfare Landscape project
An AHRC supported project that commemorates the role of women in shaping the post-war designed landscapes of the British Welfare State.