The Institute for Energy Research and Policy was founded in 2005, recognising the wide range of high-quality research in energy at the University of Birmingham, ongoing for more than fifty years, and the increasing importance of energy for our lives and our environment.

Advances in science and technology, and appropriate governmental and commercial policies, are both needed to deal with the challenge of global climate change, increased energy costs, the threat of energy supply disruptions and increasing difficulty in replacing energy reserves in certain locations around the world.

The aim of the Institute is to be recognised nationally and internationally for the quality of its pure and applied research in both technical and non-technical aspects of energy, for the contributions made by researchers from a range of disciplines, and for its contribution to University and public education and debate on energy matters.

The vision for the Institute is a network of researchers from a range of disciplines engaged on projects of international excellence, contributing their expertise to each project. The University of Birmingham will be known as a place where inter-disciplinary collaboration is frequent, productive and leading-edge. Researchers’ findings will be communicated to both specialists and non-specialists.

The Institute will have a physical home in which academics, research students and visitors can meet and work, as a valued supplement to their departmental laboratories. The Institute will promote education in energy matters, contributing to the University’s degree courses and continuing professional development training, and through specific events. In this way it will contribute to the formation of the next generation of energy professionals.

• Contact: Professor Richard Green, Director
• Tel: 0121 415 8216