The NERC Field Spectroscopy Facility maintains and provides a pool of state-of-the-art spectroscopy instruments for use by the UK research community. We are also develop and deliver training courses, development and improve EO instrumentation and work with national bodies in support of calibration/validation exercises. 

Our equipment pool contains field spectrometers; logging and field portable sunphotometers; UAV sensors including a hyperspectral imager with LiDAR, Sentinel 2/WorldView...

The Natural Environment Research Council  (NERC) Environmental Data Service (EDS) provides a focal point for NERC's scientific data and information.   The EDS consists of a network of environmental data centres.  These centres hold data covering all aspects of environmental science, gathered from environmental scientists working in the UK and around the world. The EDS are responsible for maintaining environmental data and making them available to all users, not just NERC researchers but others...

The Quantum Technology Centre, based in Lancaster University’s Physics Department, establish a significant technology presence in the Northwest. Our world class facilities include a class 100 and two class 1000 clean rooms housing state-of-the-art nanofabrication equipment. The facilities provide the possibility to run multi-step nanofabrication processes to build electronic, photonic and nanomechanical devices and structures with a feature size as small as 10 nm. It allows processing of metals...

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 Long Term Monitoring Network (LTMN) was set up in 2009 to record, analyse and predict environmental change in the United Kingdom. The overarching focus of the network is to understand long term air pollution and climate change impacts on biodiversity of high quality semi-natural habitats, and to that end long-term data collection of physical, chemical and biological variables is carried out using strict protocols across 37 sites. Comprehensive co-located datasets detailing vegetation, soil...

CPI acts as a catalyst bringing together academia, businesses, government and investors to translate bright ideas and research into the marketplace. We do this by connecting our customers with the right experts, equipment, facilities, networks, funding and more – joining the dots for effective innovation.

We are a leading independent technology innovation centre and a founding member of the UK Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult. Established in 2004, our teams tirelessly apply...

The 14CHRONO Centre analyses a wide variety of carbon containing samples using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) 14C to provide radiocarbon ages or fractions of modern carbon. We also provide AMS 14C analyses for archaeological companies, forensic investigations and industries interested in monitoring bio- vs. fossil based components. We collaborate with researchers around the world to construct radiocarbon calibration curves to convert radiocarbon ages to 'calendar' ages. We also provide...

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...

The Aberystwyth Genetic Resources Unit comprises a collection of approximately 33,000 accessions of forage grasses, forage legumes, oats, grain legumes, energy grasses and amienity grasses. In addition it comprises a physical building (a new building is to be completed in June 2019 on the Aberystwyth Innovation & Enterprise Campus) for seed storage and seed processing; and a quarentine facility of glasshouses for containing recently collected accessions brought into the UK. The infrastructure...

The Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC) provides computing hardware, builds software, and provides computational and data analytics expertise that will spark a paradigm shift in the capability of scientists to design, analyse and interpret experiments at relevant research infrastructures such as Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Central Laser Facility and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy. The ALC exists to: • Build capacity in advanced software infrastructure for the handling...