The School of Geography hosts, or co-hosts, seven interdisciplinary research centres. Please see the links below for further details, including opportunities for collaboration:
City Centre: Researching City Lives and Connections
The City Centre is a research and communication network based in the School of Geography that aims to promote and develop collaborative, cross-disciplinary work on city lives and connections.
Centre for Studies of Home
The Centre for Studies of Home is a formal partnership between Queen Mary and The Geffrye Museum of the Home. It is an international hub of research, knowledge exchange and public engagement activities on past and present homes.
Centre for Environmental Change and Communities
The Centre for Environmental Change and Communities brings together QMUL expertise on the science, implications, and responses to environmental change relevant to communities in the UK and globally.
Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CRoLAC)
CRoLAC is a network of scholars from the humanities and social sciences working in and on Latin America and the Caribbean region. It aims to facilitate contact, collaboration and intellectual exchange between academics and practitioners based within and beyond Queen Mary.
Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production (CLaSP)
CLaSP is an interdisciplinary research centre that brings together scholars interested in the interconnections between work, enterprises, regulation, and sustainability in the global economy.
Centre for the Study of Migration
The Centre for the Study of Migration aims to facilitate, promote and develop interdisciplinary work on migration. It is committed to acting as a focal point in London for research related to migration and to offer opportunities to scholars of migration within and beyond Queen Mary to share and develop their work through participation in the centre's events and publications.
The Forum on Decentering the Human
The Forum on Decentering the Human is a research centre exploring the relationship between humans and other living as well as non-living beings. Through a variety of research activities and events, it aims to catalyse interdisciplinary research that brings non-humans (such as animals, nature, AIs and divinities) to the fore of enquiry in ways that challenge anthropocentrism.