research expertise
The GCSE membership represents a vast array of experience and expertise ready to support and collaborate across academia, industry and community:
- AI, machine learning and digital twins for energy applications
- Bioenergy
- Business models for the circular economy
- Clean heating and cooling
- Clean fuels and energy carriers
- Critical materials for the energy transition
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Digital Twinning
- Energy citizenship for a just transition
- Energy data, digitisation and connectivity for energy systems
- Energy efficiency in the built environment
- Energy harvesters
- Energy in space
- Energy policy
- Energy storage
- Energy sustainability in media and entertainment industries
- Energy systems modelling
- Geoenergy and Geostorage
- Hydropower
- Legacy energy assets
- Life Cycle Assessment in energy and waste management
- Low carbon computing and sustainable software engineering
- Multiphysics characterisation of advanced energy systems
- Nuclear energy and nuclear waste management
- Risk management and reliability analysis
- Smart grids
- Smart sensor systems
- Solar energy
- Sustainable materials and manufacturing for clean energy
- Transport decarbonisation
- Wave and tidal energy
- Wind energy
Research, Consultancy & Facilities
The University of Glasgow is a leading international research university, with one of the broadest research bases in the UK. The wide range of disciplines reflected in our academic community mean we are uniquely positioned to tackle complex challenges, including advancing sustainable energy solutions.
Be a Research Partner
Join forces with our leading researchers to address your business challenges. We have a strong track record of collaborating with industry and other research institutions. From short-term consultancy to long-term collaborative projects, by working in partnership with us your organisation can benefit from the University's world-class research expertise and facilities, alongside our extensive and ongoing input to the research process at all stages. Together we can seek external research funding from organisations such as Innovate UK, UKRI, and the European Commission.
How it works:
It starts with a confidential and friendly conversation with a GCSE Team member who will scope out partnership opportunities and connect you with relevant expertise based on your organisational need. Our Industry Engagement Team are on hand to usher you through terms of engagement and agreeing project scope. Whether it is an opportunity to engage our students in a small research project, or develop a large-scale joint research bid, we are open for business.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Opportunities
What is a KTP?
KTPs are a three-way partnership between your business, the University of Glasgow and a research graduate who works within your organisation to ensure that the project is delivered.
How does a KTP work?
Through a KTP, you can embed expertise, generate new knowledge, expand capability and foster a culture of innovation within your organisation. Innovate UK will fund between 50% and 75% of the eligible costs for each KTP.
How to find out more
Visit the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships webpages or contact the GCSE Team at contactus-sustainableenergy@glasgow.ac.uk for more information and to be introduced to the appropriate member in our community to help take your project forward.
Consultancy Services
Through our Academic Consultancy Service, organisations gain access to high-calibre academic insight backed by rigorous thinking and institutional credibility.
Our dedicated team offers an end-to-end account-managed service, working closely with you to understand your challenge and deliver tailored solutions that create measurable impact. Whether you’re shaping new processes, developing products, or navigating complex systems, we connect you with the right academic minds to move your ambitions forward.
Examples of consultancy service we offer include:
- Providing expert witness panels
- Serving on scientific advisory boards
- Designing and delivering bespoke training
- Conducting data analysis
- Offering technical solutions to business challenges
- Providing government policy guidance and design
- Contributing to field trial design
Contact the GCSE team to explore how we can support your organisation at contactus-sustainableenergy@glasgow.ac.uk
Access State of the Art Research Facilities and Services
The University of Glasgow offers a wide range of high technology services, supported by the University’s base for innovative research and knowledge.
These services are available to industry at commercially competitive rates, enabling companies to address and solve key technical challenges, increase product performance, and improve business operations.
Our technology centres provide easy access to a professional service, delivering high quality, client-focussed, and insightful solutions on a timely basis.
Facilities include:
- Energy Lab
- Energy Transition Lab
- Sustainable Electronics Lab
- Glasgow Hydrogen Innovation Centre
- Fluid dynamic testing facilities - National Wind Tunnel facility
- Scotland 5G Testbed
- College of Science & Engineering Analytical Suite
- Glasgow Laboratory for Advanced Detector Development (GLADD)
- Imaging Spectroscopy and Analysis Centre
- James Watt Nanofabrication Centre
- Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC)
Contact the GCSE Team at contactus-sustainableenergy@glasgow.ac.uk for more information.
The Advanced Research Centre (ARC) - Our Home
The ARC is home to collaborative research, innovation and discovery at the University of Glasgow. The unique building brings together researchers, partners and ideas to catalyse and advance collaboration, teamwork and innovation, drawing from all sectors and disciplines inside and outside the University.
Research Impact
Watch the videos below and visit our news pages to find out more about some of the exciting projects Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy Colleagues are working on.
Net Zero Future: Energy Conversion
The School of Chemistry are looking at low-carbon solutions to energy generation and storage.
Net Zero Future: SOLSPACE
Supported by an ERC Advanced Grant, researchers in the James Watt School of Engineering are investigating the use of ultra-lightweight orbiting reflectors to enhance the output of future terrestrial solar power farms.