Abertay University is committed to high quality research that delivers real impact for society.
Abertay is a small, collaborative, modern University with an established reputation for working well across traditional research boundaries, as well as within new and emerging disciplines and sectors. We are committed to high-quality research that delivers real impact for society across a range of discipline areas. From environmental and cybersecurity research into sustainable businesses and food production, to using computer games as creative and critical tools, as well as understanding the behaviours and structures that drive and influence individuals in the societies in which they exist, our researchers are solving complex real-world problems to fuel innovation-led growth and sustainable development.
Our Research, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Strategy 2025-30 integrates our research into a single University-wide initiative where expertise from a range of subject areas is integrated and used to support discovery, innovation and applied research within and across traditional disciplinary boundaries. We have drawn on our industry-facing heritage and effective interdisciplinary practice, to enhance our existing expertise and internationally recognised successes; our research culture is inculcated into everything we do as a University.
Our structure promotes collaborative and interdisciplinary working, to break away from traditional academic models and address real-world challenges. Our academics and research staff focus and build excellence within and across Challenge Spaces addressing key local, national and international priorities that our research base best positions us to respond to. To address these Challenge Spaces, we will draw on our cross-institutional ways of working and discipline expertise based within our academic units.
The Graduate School is central to our research community. The School grants membership to all students engaged in postgraduate study at Abertay. Our purpose-designed forum, where researchers and postgraduates come together to work, learn, collaborate and socialise, supports a unique postgraduate community operating in a multi-disciplinary and creative environment. From projects developing novel and sustainable foods, to computer games programmes used for anti-cancer drug design, the School supports the University’s research community as a whole. In addition to providing a physical workspace, the Graduate School offers a comprehensive and integrated training and professional development programme to our research students and academics, to enhance research excellence, impact and individual employability.
Creative Industries & Cultural Vitality, exploring the creative use of interactive and emerging technologies in entertainment and non-entertainment spaces alike, and how they shape our everyday living, leisure and work cultures and practices.
Health & Care Across the Lifespan, considering human and societal challenges of adversity, mental and physical health, wellbeing, education, performance and social care and the roles that science, sport and physical activity have in addressing those challenges.
Security, Equality & Social Justice, fostering personal, societal and organisational security and resilience in a time of increasing local, national and transnational threats and socio-technical disruption together with growing economic and health inequality and social fragmentation.
Sustainable Development & Inclusive Living, managing responsibly the natural resource requirements and energy-food-water nexus of inclusive living and business infrastructures and safeguarding their transmission to future generations.
Our two academic faculties, the Faculty of Design, Informatics and Business and the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences, have an outstanding record of conducting world-leading and internationally excellent research.
Staff collaborate across departments and with external partners to produce research that sparks new conversations, informs government policies and impacts lives for the better.
Visit the Department links below for a more detailed overview of what we are working on.
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