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
- Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta (CRINA)
- Cardiovascular Research Centre (CVRC)
- 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)
Pharmacy + Pharmaceutical Sciences
Public Health, School of
COLLEGE OF NATURAL + APPLIED SCIENCES
Agricultural, Life + Environmental Sciences
Engineering
Science
- Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute—affiliated
- Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII)
- Applied Mathematics Institute (AMI)
- Bamfield Marine Science Centre—affiliated
- Canadian Centre for Isotopic Microanalysis (CCIM)
- Centre for Earth Observation Sciences (CEOS)
- Centre for Particle Physics
- Glycomics Institute of Alberta (GIA)
- Institute for Geophysical Research (IGR)
- Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)—affiliated
- Theoretical Physics Institute
- The Metabolomics Innovation Centre (TMIC)—affiliated
- TRIUMF - Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics—affiliated
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES + HUMANITIES
- Alberta Centre for Labour Market Research (ACLMR)
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)
- 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
- 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
- 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