The High Value Manufacturing Catapult is the go-to place for manufacturing technology innovation in the UK. Our seven centres, listed below, work across 17 locations covering all parts of country to support manufacturers in over 4,000 projects per year, offering open access to the latest industrial scale equipment, leading expertise and an environment of collaboration between industry, academia and government. We cover the full range of manufacturing technology capabilities, from biologics to...

Viper is the University of Hull’s first institutional High Performance Computer (HPC). Within the university sector, Viper is one of the leading HPC resources. Our mission is to be recognised as a leader and a centre of excellence in the provision of quality HPC services and support. The University of Hull is committed to research excellence and Viper is key for meeting the ever-growing demands of the University research community. Viper is based on technically advanced and innovative systems...

The Bragg centre for materials research is a hub of research excellence at the University of Leeds, specialising in all aspects of material science from design to characterisation. The centre spans 15 constituent schools, drawing a core membership from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS) and has a physical presence in the WH Bragg building as the centrepiece connecting the Chemistry, Physics and Engineering disciplines on campus. The Bragg Centre marks a significant...

The Durham XRCT facility scans solids to produce tomographies that reveal inner structures, distributions of materials or voids etc. The service scans samples from engineering, earth sciences, biological sciences, archaeology as well as components manufactured by commercial bodies. PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO BUILDING WORK AND ONGOING MAINTENANCE ISSUES, THE FACILITY IS CURRENTLY OUT OF ACTION. Please check by email or the University webpage if you are interested

Computationally intensive methods, High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA), are essential enablers of world class research across most disciplines. N8 CIR is a platform of HPC/HPDA methods, skills and facilities - as Centre of Excellence (CoE) - to underpin the strategic research objectives of the N8 universities: providing a competitive edge by extending the boundaries of the possible. It includes: building communities of practice focused on selected N8...

Leeds Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy Centre (LEMAS) is internationally renowned as a leading research centre in microscopic and spectroscopic characterisation of solid materials. This is supported by a complementary Electron Microscopy facility for Earth Sciences and an X ray diffraction facility which are co-located. We aim to develop and underpin materials characterisation techniques at the University of Leeds and to also offer external services to outside higher education institutions...

GEF provides a broad range of geophysical equipment, specialist expertise, experiment planning, data processing, equipment technical support and acquisition delivery to UK-based researchers engaged in environmental research within the NERC remit. Forefront research projects defined by UK-based research users peer reviewed and highly graded against international benchmarks by NERC awards and steering committees are supported. A pool of state of the art above-surface and sub-surface location and...

NICA will bring together, in one centre, innovation experts, design experts and world-leading applied researchers to work with industry and the public to develop, test and bring to market products which promote healthy ageing as we grow older. The Centre will achieve these aims through: • creating an inter-disciplinary innovation eco-system with key applied researchers (such as design, computer science, engineering and health and social science) working with older people, industry and the public...