Centres + Institutes
Representing a diverse range of research expertise, Centres and Institutes engage in scholarship and advance the mission of the University of Alberta through specific attention to particular areas of study or research.
Centres and Institutes Advisory Task Force Report
In 2024, a University of Alberta Centres and Institutes Advisory Task Force completed a report providing recommendations for institutional engagement with academic centres and institutes and their role in supporting the growth of the university’s research and education capacity.
Colleges
COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
Kinesiology, Sport + Recreation
Medicine + Dentistry
- Alberta Diabetes Institute
- Alberta Respiratory Centre (ARC)
- Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre (ATAGC)
- Alberta Transplant Institute (ATI)
- Canadian VIGOUR Centre open in a new tab
- Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta (CRINA)
- Cardiovascular Research Centre (CVRC) open in a new tab
- Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI)
- Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases
- Institute for SMart Augmentative and Restorative Technologies and Health Innovations (iSMART)
- John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre
- Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology
- Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI)
- University of Alberta Multiple Sclerosis Centre
- Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI) open in a new tab
Pharmacy + Pharmaceutical Sciences
Public Health, School of
COLLEGE OF NATURAL + APPLIED SCIENCES
Agricultural, Life + Environmental Sciences
Engineering
- Canadian Centre for Welding and Joining open in a new tab
- Canadian Underground Infrastructure Innovation Centre (CUIIC)
- Centre for Applied Research in Defence and Dual-use Technologies (CARDD-Tech)
- Centre for Energy and Mineral Processing open in a new tab
- CISC Centre for Steel Structures Education and Research open in a new tab
- Construction Innovation Centre open in a new tab
- Imperial Oil Institute for Oil Sands Innovation open in a new tab
- Water Research Centre
Science
- Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute—affiliated open in a new tab
- Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII) open in a new tab
- Applied Mathematics Institute (AMI)
- Bamfield Marine Science Centre—affiliated open in a new tab
- Canadian Centre for Isotopic Microanalysis (CCIM) open in a new tab
- Centre for Earth Observation Sciences (CEOS)
- Centre for Particle Physics
- Glycomics Institute of Alberta (GIA) open in a new tab
- Institute for Geophysical Research (IGR)
- Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)—affiliated open in a new tab
- Theoretical Physics Institute
- The Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC)—affiliated open in a new tab
- TRIUMF - Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics—affiliated open in a new tab
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES + HUMANITIES
Alberta School of Business
Arts
- Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology
- Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI)
- Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies
- Centre for Literatures in Canada / Centre de littératures au canada
- Centre for Criminological Research (CCR) open in a new tab
- Institute for Intersectionality Studies (IIS) / L'institut d'études sur l'intersectionnalité (IEI)
- Institute for Public Economics
- Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology
- International Institute for Qualitative Methodology
- Kule Folklore Centre
- Kule Institute for Advanced Studies (KIAS)
- Parkland Institute open in a new tab
- Prince Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research
- Sound Studies Institute
- Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies
Education
- Centre for Mathematics Science and Technology Education (CMASTE)
- Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development (CRTED)
- Centre for Research in Applied Measurement and Evaluation (CRAME)
- Fyrefly Institute for Gender and Sexual Diversity
- J.P. Das Centre on Developmental and Learning Disabilities
- Western Canadian Centre of Studies in Deafness (WCCSD)
Faculties
Augustana
Campus Saint-Jean
Native Studies
VP Units
Vice-President (Research + Innovation)
Provost and Vice-President (Academic)
Vice-Provost (Learning Services) + Chief Librarian