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...

Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre (ACMC) is a leading composites facility based in the School of Engineering. Launched in 1987, we're constantly active across a wide range of projects, bridging the traditional gap between academic research and development and the needs of industry. We work with large and small companies on projects including: implementing new technology improving processes testing materials and components solving manufacturing and materials problems. What are...

Plymouth University is extremely well equipped for analysis and materials characterisation. We have the expertise and equipment to assist with problems related to polymers, ceramics and hard metals, metallic alloys and composite materials in areas such as: Imaging: materials and components can be examined at magnifications from 1x to 1,000,000x using normal light, electron, confocal laser scanning and atomic force microscopes. These are operated via sophisticated software packages with a high...

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...

The set of AAAI (Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting Infrastructure) services operated by Jisc provides a national framework for the management of access to RII resources across the UK. This framework includes authentication of an individual user of a RII; authorisation of that user to access RII resources; and, where appropriate, accounting for that use for charging or for auditing purposes (for instance where there are compliance implications such as those around access to sensitive...

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. 

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Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives (part of the Culture & Creative Industries division of Bristol City Council) is responsible for museum collections across the natural sciences, humanities and arts amounting to c.2million items and also for 11 miles of archive shelving at the Bristol Archives. The mission of the service is to be excellent, resilient, valued and inclusive. Geology, Eastern Art and City of Bristol collections are 'Designated' as of international importance. Geology collections...

BrUNEL is the UK's only Ultra high vacuum micro-spectroscopy suite for performing high resolution surface analysis of conductive crystalline and 2D/multilayer materials in both real space and momentum space using Energy filtered, photo electron emission microscopy and monochromatic high brightness light sources. It is a complementary laboratory facility to national synchrotron facilities allowing researchers to pre-analyse samples chemically by imaging ultra-violet spectroscopy and core level...

BRAMS is a new state-of-the-art radiocarbon dating facility at the University of Bristol, created to enhance the UK capability for ¹⁴C analysis in the biogeochemical, palaeoenvironmental and archaeological sciences amongst other fields. We are home to a MICADAS accelerator mass spectrometer; one of the latest generation of ultra-compact, high-precision AMS instruments featuring a gas capable ion source for the rapid analysis of small samples. The BRAMS facility is equipped with a suite of...