CRES promotes multi- and interdisciplinary approaches to research into natural and polluted environments and develops management strategies for remediation of anthropogenically damaged environments and for the sustainable management of natural environments. CRES membership is drawn from University academics, research staff and visiting research staff.
Research themes include: water pollution control, management and policy, air quality policy, strategy and management, biofuels, environmental geochemistry and environmental change.
The University’s strategic investment supports a high quality research infrastructure which CRES staff draw upon. This includes:
- a multi million laboratory refurbishment has provided new or upgraded research facilities including
- a clean room,
- a specialist nuclear suite,
- electron microscopy suite with ESEM and TEM,
- fieldwork ‘wet /dirty room’,
- confocal microscopes,
- research grade glasshouses and extensive plant growth facilities,
- dedicated post-genomic technologies including LC-QTOF, MALDI-TOF and DIGE micro array equipment in the Bristol Genomic Research Institute
All supported by a high quality technical workforce.
Members of CRES also work with the Institutes at UWE:
Institute of Bio-Sensing Technology
Institute for Sustainability, Health and Environment