Associated Institutions
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Associated Institutions
Cockroft Institute
Theme(s)
Health & Wellbeing
Website
A centre of excellence in accelerator science involving the
universities of Liverpool, Lancaster and Manchester, the Particle
Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the Council for
the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) and the
former Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).
Its purpose is to research, design and develop particle accelerators
at the cutting-edge of technology.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Theme(s)
Health & Wellbeing
Food Security & Safety
Website
An international centre of excellence, devoted to research,
education and training, and consultancy. It was founded in 1898,
becoming the world’s first institution devoted primarily to tropical
health. It has extensive links with UN organisations, health
ministries, universities, non-governmental organisations and
research institutions worldwide, working in partnership to control
diseases of poverty and to develop more effective systems
for healthcare.
National Oceanography Centre
Theme(s)
Environment & Climate Change
Website
A part of the Natural Environment Research Council, conducts
world-class research in estuary, coastal and shelf sea circulation;
ecosystem dynamics; wind-wave dynamics and sediment
transport; global sea level and geodetic oceanography; and
marine technology and operational oceanography. The Centre
hosts a range of national and international services for the benefit
of the wider community.
The Reader Organisation
Theme(s)
Health & Wellbeing
Website
The University of Liverpool’s first arts spin-out organisation; it exists
to bring about a ‘reading revolution’. Its work encourages people
of all ages and backgrounds to become readers, or to extend their
reading habits, and aims to improve wellbeing and build
community through shared reading.
Get Into Reading, The Reader Organisation’s innovative social
outreach project, has more than 120 reading groups across
Merseyside. Get Into Reading has been singled-out by the UK
Government as an example of best practice in helping improve
public mental health and wellbeing in the ‘New Horizons’ strategy
by the Department of Health.
