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...

VSimulators provides a platform for multi-disciplinary research to study the human experience of real world environments. It is a catalyst, supported by a community of researchers and industry leaders from structural engineering, physiotherapy, psychology, architecture, biomechanics, immersive reality, vibration engineering and human movement science.

VSim is a dual-site facility. VSim@Bath provides a bespoke environmental chamber combined with projected virtual reality for two research...

Preserves and provides access to special collections and archives held by Falmouth University and University of Exeter (Cornwall Campus). This includes historical records for Falmouth University, Dartington College of Arts and Camborne School of Mines, collections associated with the Institute of Cornish Studies, collections associated with Cornish performance companies, artists and writers as well as rare books collections. The service is open to visiting researchers and the public.

The Coastal, Ocean and Sediment Transport (COAST) laboratory, housed in the Marine Building at the University of Plymouth. This world class facility provides physical model testing with combined waves, currents and wind, offered at scales appropriate for device testing, array testing, environmental modelling and coastal engineering. This is a flexible facility with the capability to generate short and long-crested waves in combination with currents at any relative direction, sediment dynamics...

The Archives Hub brings together descriptions of thousands of the UK’s archive collections. Representing over 370 institutions across the country, it is an effective way to discover unique and often little-known sources to support research. New descriptions are added every week, often representing collections being made available for the first time. Researchers can use the Hub to instantly scan the archival landscape and bring together diverse sources held in repositories across the country. The...

ALSPAC is a multi-generational study that began as a pregnancy/birth cohort. In 1991 and 1992, 14,500 pregnant women living in and around Bristol were recruited into the study. Detailed data have been collected on these women and their partners (the original parents, known as G0) and their children (the index participants, G1). In recent years the study has also enrolled the children of the children (G2).

The overarching objective for ALSPAC is to maintain its position as the premier multi...

The BrisSynBio Research and Innovation Infrastructure (RII) incorporates a distributed research infrastructure and capabilities that underpins the University of Bristol’s synthetic and engineering biology research endeavour. This includes:

BioSuite: Liquid-handling robots for cloning and assays, protein production, and protein crystallisation. 

700 NMR suite: provides high sensitivity NMR services for the routine characterisation of small molecules, peptides and proteins. 

BrisSynBio...