Research Expertise
The University encourages and develops research activity across a wide range of disciplines and it is recognised for its high quality work in subjects from Accountancy and European Studies to Gerontology and Physics. All research is conducted in line with the University's Ethical Guidelines.
Specific areas of research expertise by subject area currently include:
Business School
- Accounting Business and Financial History
- Centre for Contemporary European Studies
- Paisley Enterprise Research Centre
Computing
- Applied Computational Intelligence Research Unit (ACIRU)
- Electrochemical Sensors and Polymer Conjugates Group
- The Database Research Group
- Information and Communications Technologies in Education
Education
Engineering & Science
- Centre for Environmental and Waste Management
- Centre for Particle Characterisation and Analysis
- Environmental Initiatives Research Group
- Experimental Nuclear Physics Group
- Glass Research and Development Group
- Microscale Sensors Group
- Molecular & Health Sciences Research Group
- Neurovascular Inflammation Group
- Scottish Biotechnology Training Centre
- Scottish Polymer Development Centre
- Sport, Health and Exercise Research Group
- Thin Film Centre