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...

The MTC was established in 2010 as an independent Research & Technology Organisation (RTO). Its primary focus is to ensure that great ideas become reality and don’t fall into the manufacturing abyss known as the ‘valley of death’.

It represents one of the largest public sector investments in UK manufacturing and, after four years of planning and a 16-month build, the facility opened at Ansty Park in Coventry at the end of 2011. It exists to prove innovative manufacturing processes and...

The UK High-Field Solid-State NMR Facility is based around a 23.5 Tesla standard-bore (54 mm) NMR magnet (corresponding to a 1H Larmor frequency of 1 GHz, brought to field in November 2020, as the first 1 GHz NMR magnet in the UK) and a 20 Tesla wide-bore (89 mm) NMR magnet (corresponding to a 1H Larmor frequency of 850 MHz), both equipped with a HFXY rf console. There is a wide range of probes: for magic-angle spinning (MAS) for rotor diameters 0.7 mm, 1.0 mm, 1.3 mm, 2.5 mm, 3.2 mm, 4 mm and 7...

ARK is Northern Ireland's social policy hub, and is a joint initiative across Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. Our goal is to provide open access information on the social and political context in Northern Ireland, in order to support the research and evidence base, to support civic society, and to inform, monitor and challenge policies. We provide open access public attitudes survey data, a comprehensive archive on material relating to the conflict in Northern Ireland (CAIN), d...

Our members in the Biomedical Sciences Research Institute (BMSRI) at Ulster conduct pioneering, strategically focused research into health and investigates the underlying causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of human diseases.We are also exploiting the remarkable opportunities made possible by recent molecular advances: revolutionary changes in biomedicine and biotechnology that will soon transform whole industries and economies, but which offer particular advantages in our field. We...

The Living Lab is a safe and affordable, real-world test environment for trialling new energy products, services and business models, with the aim of de-risking and scaling innovations for market.

With 150+ digitally connected smart-homes, the Living Lab is truly open, interoperable and scalable – after undergoing significant upgrades over six-months in 2020 – including a new digital integration platform.

Innovative businesses can rapidly design, market-test and launch smart energy...

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CLIMB provides a core national computational infrastructure to produce, analyze and share microbiological software and datasets. CLIMB is accessed via a self-service portal, providing computational resources on-demand. The system provides users with customisable virtual laboratories include a suite of >100 preconfigured microbial analysis tools, and access to a library of many hundreds more. We support over 1,000 registered users from 89 organisations across the UK, representing most...

Diseases of the immune system which lead to persistent inflammation such as colitis, Crohns disease and arthritis, are a group of common and highly disabling conditions which share underlying disease processes. They affect up to 10% of the UK population and this figure is likely to increase with our ageing population. Unfortunately treatment is expensive, rarely curative and often associated with disabling side-effects such as infection. The Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre is building on...