Research Themes 

Established in 2000, eCPR provides a focus in Wales for high quality research in photography that builds on both its institutional heritage and internationally renowned scholarship.

Key areas: Sustainability & Design, Design for an Ageing Population, Smart Clothes and Wearable Technologies

The Performance and Screen Media Research Group (PSMG) includes the theoretical areas of film studies, media studies, theatre studies, animation studies and cultural studies, and theatre practice, film practice and animation practice.

By developing solutions for a specifically targeted use, we believe that new opportunities will spin-out from the initial concept, informing the development of new innovations in other areas of ‘Smart Clothes’.

The Centre is focused on research that has direct links with business, providing a forum where academics, lawyers and members of the business community can come together to consider a range of legal and ethical questions.

Aim: To promote research in Business, Innovation, Leadership and Management Behaviour.

CREaM was established to stimulate research in all areas of socioeconomic development activity that sit at the interface between Entrepreneurship and Marketing.

The VFRC conducts research into the characteristics, application and diffusion of contemporary management paradigms such as Lean Thinking, Theory of Constraints, Systems Thinking and Agility.

CIO is a small research centre consisting of academics and practitioners practicing in the wider field of information operations. We have a strong and well-established theme in the areas of information security, digital forensics and threat assessment.

The Digital Scholarship pedagogic research group aims to focus on technology enhanced learning but with the emphasis on postgraduate and academic learning.

The Dyscovery Centre specialist and high quality service providing clinical services, undertaking research, providing consultancy services and training at all levels from awareness raising courses to Masters degree level.

The ESDGC pedagogic research group aims to develop an excellence and proficiency in this much talked about but sketchily understood field of education initiative which is being pursued in parallel but diversely both nationally and internationally.

The Learning Spaces pedagogic research group has been established to encourage cross-disciplinary reflection on the ways in which the environment can shape the student experience.

The Cognitive Robotics Research Centre studies different aspects of cognition and intelligent behaviour with an emphasis on cognitive capabilities in robots.

The South Wales Centre for Historical and Interdisciplinary Research (SWCHIR) exists to promote a dedicated research environment that meets the needs of the diverse communities and cultures in South Wales.

The Dyscovery Centre specialist and high quality service providing clinical services, undertaking research, providing consultancy services and training at all levels from awareness raising courses to Masters degree level.

The Newport Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research at the University of Wales, Newport, has a rapidly growing reputation for research and innovation.

The Newport University Community Counselling Service (NUCCS) provides counselling services and undertakes research and evaluation projects, generally in association with the voluntary or statutory sectors.

The Psychology Research Cluster was launched in the summer of 2011, following a large investment and drive by the School of Sport, Health, and Applied Social Sciences, to create a centre of research excellence in the area of Applied Psychology.

The Performance and Screen Media Research Group (PSMG) includes the theoretical areas of film studies, media studies, theatre studies, animation studies and cultural studies, and theatre practice, film practice and animation practice.

Linking research groups across the University, CCSS provides a focus for philosophical/theoretical debates, and empirical research applied to government and institutional policy, and to state/voluntary sector professions and organisations.

The Centre exists to develop practice based, methodologically sound research, informing theory and practice in the fields of Widening Access and Community Engagement.

The Newport Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research at the University of Wales, Newport, has a rapidly growing reputation for research and innovation.

The Centre is involved in teaching, applied research, programme design and consultancy work in the Criminal and Community Justice Sectors. We are explicit in making links between theory and practice.

The Newport University Community Counselling Service (NUCCS) provides counselling services and undertakes research and evaluation projects, generally in association with the voluntary or statutory sectors.

The Newport Social Ethics Research Centre combines research and teaching in a range of fields in the social domain, with special emphasis on political, social and ethical theory – and on the points of intersection between these areas.

‘Women in Society’ is a multi-disciplinary forum for research relating to women. It aims to explore and challenge perspectives on women and gender in a variety of contexts e.g. the workplace, education, the family, the media and wider society.