Research Opportunities
Research That Matters
Loughborough University is a research intensive institution which undertakes high quality research across all its disciplines. The University is proud of its record and reputation for internationally recognised research.
Since its earliest days the University has produced work that has a major impact on academic disciplines, public policy, the professions, business and industry.
The high quality and widespread involvement of staff in research at Loughborough means that postgraduate students are part of a vibrant research culture in which they are taught by academics at the forefront of their disciplines.
Postgraduates become involved in current research activities and are provided with research skills and knowledge arising from top quality research practice.
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Loughborough was confirmed as one of the country’s top 20 research universities. In all, a total of 10 departments had 20% or more of their research considered to be world-leading, with three of those departments – Design and Technology, the Ergonomics and Safety Research Institute, and the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences (now the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences) – rated as number one in the country, according to calculations by the Guardian and The Times Higher.
The results of the RAE saw Loughborough named as one of ‘three rising stars’ by the Times Higher, noting just how much further the University has progressed even since the very good results in 2001.
The University is a member of the esteemed 1994 Group of internationally recognised research-intensive universities.
Our expertise in energy technologies research was recently recognised when Loughborough became the headquarters for a new £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to help the UK reduce its carbon footprint. The ETI is a partnership with the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham and includes some of the world’s biggest companies in the energy arena.
Our research is spread across 23 departments within three faculties: Engineering, Science, and Social Sciences and Humanities. We have more than 40 research centres and institutes, and over 100 research groups.
The University’s ‘The View’ research magazine highlights some of the many diverse research projects undertaken at Loughborough.