Over the years, the University has seen a growth in the number of Research Centres located across all its Faculties/College. These Research Centres are positioned to strengthen institutional, regional and national priorities as evidenced in the wide spectrum of research topics. Research Centres are internally funded through the University Strategic funding initiative. More information on each of our Research Centres may be found by clicking on the specific centre from the list below.
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA)
College of Business and Economics (CBE)
- Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (Africa)
- Centre for Information and Knowledge Management
- Centre for Work Performance
- Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development
- Public and Environmental Economics Research Centre (PEERC)
- Centre for Public Management and Governance
- Centre for Model-Based Planning
Faculty of Education
- Centre for Education Rights and Transformation
- Centre for Education Practice Research
- Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (FEBE)
- Mineral Processing and Technology Research Centre
- Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Research Centre (jointly with Nanjing Tech University in China)
- Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research Centre
- Centre for Nanoengineering and Tribocorrosion
- Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in the Built Environment
Faculty of Health Sciences
- Laser Research Centre
- Water and Health Research Centre
- Olympic Study Centre
Faculty of Humanities
- Africa Centre for Evidence
- African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
- Centre for African Diplomacy and Leadership
- Centre for Social Change
- Centre for Sociological Research and Practice
- Centre for Anthropological Research
- Centre for Social Development in Africa
- Confucius Institute
- Paleo Research Institute
- Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation
- SARChI Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
Faculty of Law
- South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law
- Centre for International and Comparative Labour and Social Security Law
- Institute for Private International Law in Africa
Faculty of Science
- African Centre for DNA Barcoding
- Research Centre in Synthesis and Catalysis
- Paleoproterozoic Mineralization Research Centre
- Centre for Nanomaterials Science in Research
- Centre for Aquatic Research
- Research Centre for Plant Metabolomics
- Centre for Astro-particle Physics
- Centre for Ecological Genomics and Wildlife Conservation
- Indigenous Plant Use Forum
- Joint Research Centre for Water, Environmental Science & Technology (JRC-WEST)