Cardiff School of Art & Design

Research Centres

The Cardiff School of Art & Design (CSAD) fosters a vibrant and creative research culture evidenced by the range of research groups operating within disciplinary and multi-disciplinary frameworks.

The school is host to a wide variety of exciting research and actively seeks to collaborare with academic and industry partners. We engage with cutting edge design technologies, engineering and material arts, as well as fine arts, and the history and theory of art and design.

Much of CSAD’s Art and Design research is conducted through the Wales Institute for Research in Art and Design (WIRAD).

WIRAD’s founding partners, the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) and the University of Wales, Newport (UWN) scored 4 and 5 respectively in the 2001 RAE, and house between them a broad range of exciting and internationally leading research.

 The specialised nature of CSAD's Engineering Research means that it takes place outside WIRAD, and wholly within the school. It is made up of the following research groups: Engineering, Educational & Vocational Engineering Training, Applied Signal Processing, and Work Based Learning.

If you would like to engage with the research groups, please contact Steve Gill, Director of Research on +44(0)29 2041 6732.