Institutional Core Research Facilities
Core research facilties provide users with access to state-of-the-art research services, analyses, instruments,
technology, expertise, resources, and/or training that are typically too expensive, complex, or specialized to be maintained by individual researchers.
Leaning on Western's research strengths, Western currently has six institutional core research facilities, including:
- Wind Engineering, Energy & Environment Research Facility (WindEEE) (Engineering);
- Hearing Health Research Core (Health Sciences);
- Surface Science Western (Science);
- Brain & Mind (Social Science);
- Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry); and
- Imaging Pathogens for Knowledge Translation (ImPaKT) (Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry).
The institutional core research facilities operate alongside faculty-level core facilities, which are overseen by faculties and departments; more information for these can be found on the faculties' websites.
For more information about how core research facilities work at Western, consult MAPP 7.17.
Contact
If you are interested in working with one of Western's institutional core facilities, following the links above to their contact information.
If you are looking for information about core research facilities at Western in general, reach out to Bryan Neff, Associate Vice-President (Research).
