Lab4Living is a trans-disciplinary research group, based on a collaborative community of researchers in design, healthcare and creative practices. We work together to address real world issues that impact on health and wellbeing, developing products, services and interventions that promote dignity and enhance quality of life. Set up in 2007, Lab4Living is one of the longest-established living labs in Europe and is based at Sheffield Hallam University. Our work has spanned more than 150 research projects and has included collaborations in over 80 academic, hospital and community organisations in over 15 countries.

The Art, Design and Media Research Centre (ADMRC) is an established centre of excellence that foregrounds creative, arts-led approaches to applied research that interacts with and transforms society and culture. The Art, Design and Media Research Centre (ADMRC) is one of the longest established centres for research in the arts in the UK.

Design Futures was established in 1997 and was the first non-STEM Centre for Industrial Collaboration (CIC) in the UK. Over the last two decades Design Futures has delivered R&D to regional, national and international companies and organisations and delivered Innovate UK funded programmes and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the UK and internationally. Design Futures has made a considerable impact in product, packaging and health related design products and design-based strategies.