Challenge Centres
Our Challenge Centres tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues and produce research that influences industry, policy, communities and society.

Our Challenge Centres bring together experts to address tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues and produce research that influences industry, policy, communities and society.

Our goals
By aligning our innovation and expertise across the challenge areas we can anticipate and develop creativity, allowing us to be the leading force of development and deployment of innovation and support our natural economy.
The Challenge Centres are a key support for knowledge exchange and the use of research to influence change. They can identify areas of convergence with potential partners and audiences in academia, enterprise, government and other sectors. This leads to successful networking, productive debates and collective influencing.
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Global climate emergency

Thriving natural capital
Supporting thriving rural communities through regenerative agriculture and conservation.

Delivering data & digital innovation
This centre focuses on the use of data and analytics to generate new understanding, develop and improve products, and increase efficiency across agri-food systems.

Future food systems
Generating knowledge to create safe, sustainable, and new foods chains that deliver healthy diets and support economic growth.

Safe & improved food
Developing new ways of producing food to make it safer, healthier and tastier.
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SRUC Pure
You can access our research outputs, learn more about our research team, see our current and past research projects and much more on SRUC Pure.