UBC operates multiple centres, research clusters, and other groups to address complex issues at different scales, and respond to critical community needs. Many listed below are interdisciplinary by nature, while others specialize deeply in key areas of sustainability.
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RESEARCH CENTRES AND INSTITUTES
Biodiversity Research Centre
BioProducts Institute (BPI)
Botanical Garden
Centre for Climate and Business Solutions
Centre for Climate Justice
Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
Centre for Indigenous Land-Based Education, Research and Wellness at xʷc̓ic̓əsəm
Centre for Indigenous Land Stewardship
Centre for Law and the Environment
Centre for Migration Studies
Centre for Sport and Sustainability
Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm
Centre for Transportation Studies
Centre for Wildfire Coexistence
Clean Energy Research Centre
Life Sciences Institute
Liu Institute for Global Issues
Montalbano Centre for Responsible Leadership Development
Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience and Ecosystem Services (BRAES)
Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
Wine Research Centre
RESEARCH CLUSTERS, COLLECTIVES AND INITIATIVES
Some of the following include funded Research Excellence Clusters. Learn more and see the a current list of funded clusters.
Climate Disinformation and Obstructionism Research Cluster
Climate Solutions Research Collective
Decision Insights for Business & Society
Disaster Resilience Research Network
Future Minerals Initiative
Informing Climate Action, School of Information
Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Solutions Collaboratory (IBioS)
Marine Mammal Research Unit
Microbial Cell Systems for Sustainable Living (MCELLS)
Pacific Rim Initiative for Sustainable Marine Systems (PRISMS)
Project Seahorse
Rethinking the Right-of-Way (ReROW)
Sea Around Us Project
Slow Fashion
Smart Infrastructure and Construction Research Cluster (SICRC)