Discover our research centres

Learn more about the wide variety of specialist centres that complement our commitment to teaching and research excellence. 

• UCL Anthropocene
• Constitution Unit
• Environment Institute
• Centre for Digital Anthropology
• Institute for Subjectivity and the Cultural Imagination
• Laboratory for the Ethnography of the UK
• Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
• Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies
• Centre for Transnational History
• Centre for Research on the Dynamics of Civilisation (CREDOC)
• China Centre for Health & Humanity
• International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology
• Centre for Applied Archaeology
• Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM)
• Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice in Archaeology
• Environmental Change Research Centre
• Climate and Water Research Unit
• Coastal and Estuarine Research Centre
• The Equiano Centre
• Migration Research Unit
• Urban Lab

• Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics

Discover our research community

Cutting-edge research lies at the heart of the faculty’s work. As well as being a core objective of UCL as a research-intensive university, research informs and inspires teaching in the faculty.

• Department of Anthropology
• Department of Economics
• Department of Geography
• Department of History
• Department of History of Art
• Institute of the Americas
• Institute of Archaeology
• Department of Political Science
• Institute of Advanced Studies