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Liverpool Shared Research Facilities

Liverpool Shared Research Facilities (LIV-SRF) offer flexible access to world-class equipment, facilities and expertise to support your research programme.

Our facilities are open to researchers across the University, together with external partners from academia, the NHS or industry. We’re on hand to connect you with the right people and resources to help you develop outstanding science.

LIV-SRF works across more than 20 facilities, with over 100 dedicated staff and £60m-worth of equipment. Our highly experienced professionals are leaders in their fields, who can guide your research project and harness the available technologies to the full.

The LIV-SRF offer is fully flexible, designed around your needs and ways of working. We welcome all kinds of engagements, lengthy and complex or small, quick-turnaround assignments.

Please get in touch with the LIV-SRF team to become part of a progressive research community, where insight, understanding and expertise are shared to promote innovative science and the greater good.

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Analysis and analytics

Our facilities provide elemental analysis and crystallographic and structural characterisation of a wide range of samples and scale lengths.
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Bio-resources

Our bio-resources facilities provide expertise in bespoke techniques, novel resources and models to support a wide range of research.
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Dynamical processes

Facilitating the understanding of photochemical and photophysical processes, through analysis of induced process in photoactive materials.
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Electron microscopy

Our electron microscopy facilities offer imaging, elemental analysis and microstructural characterisation of a wide range of sample types across multiple scale ranges.
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Imaging

Our imaging facilities are a world-class resource for imaging projects, with capabilities spanning biological and materials applications.
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Magnetic imaging

Our magnetic imaging facilities include clinical, pre-clinical and NMR capabilities, supporting a wide range of studies from structural and functional MRI down to molecular insights through high-field NMR.
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Manufacturing and fabrication

Our nanofabrication facility utilises thermal scanning probe lithography for nanopatterning of thin films and substrates, capable of producing complex structures at high resolution.
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Multi-omics

Our multi-omics facilities offer full support from experimental design through to sample analysis and data interpretation.
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Single-cell analysis

We have single-cell capabilities spanning multiple technologies, including transcriptomics and proteomics. These can be used individually or combined across facilities.
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Structural characterisation

Our structural characterisation facilities can enable and accelerate advanced structural characterisation of materials across multiple scale lengths for different materials classes and morphologies.
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Voucher scheme

The LIV-SRF Voucher Scheme is designed to fund small pump-priming projects that have the potential to develop new areas of research by offsetting the costs of accessing Shared Research Facilities.