Research in Swindon
Science Explorer records 31 research institutions in Swindon, United Kingdom. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Science and Technology Facilities Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Natural Environment Research Council.
- Research institutions
- 31 10 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 18k ▼ 11% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 14.1% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Swindon?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New CollegeUniversity | 3,052 | #8,513 | |
| 2 | Natural Environment Research CouncilGovernment institution | 2,553 | #7,047 | |
| 3 | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilGovernment institution | 2,395 | #4,800 all time | |
| 4 | Intel (United Kingdom)Company | 2,202 | #9,392 | |
| 5 | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilGovernment institution | 1,518 | #6,807 | |
| 6 | Arts and Humanities Research CouncilGovernment institution | 1,323 | #23,443 | |
| 7 | Science and Technology Facilities CouncilGovernment institution | 1,116 | #5,570 | |
| 8 | Great Western HospitalHospital / health system | 859 | #26,102 | |
| 9 | WRc (United Kingdom)Company | 717 | #18,687 all time | |
| 10 | Innovate UKGovernment institution | 698 | #17,899 | |
| 11 | Economic and Social Research CouncilGovernment institution | 629 | #11,995 all time | |
| 12 | BCS — The Chartered Institute for ITInstitution | 307 | #31,203 all time | |
| 13 | UK Research and InnovationGovernment institution | 239 | #14,230 | |
| 14 | Swindon CollegeUniversity | 228 | #16,438 all time | |
| 15 | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustHospital / health system | 187 | #25,539 | |
| 16 | Castrol (United Kingdom)Company | 82 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Nationwide Building SocietyInstitution | 57 | not ranked | |
| 18 | RWE (United Kingdom)Company | 32 | not ranked | |
| 19 | United Kingdom Space AgencyGovernment institution | 30 | not ranked | |
| 20 | BMI The Ridgeway HospitalHospital / health system | 20 | not ranked | |
| 21 | David Jarvis Associates (United Kingdom)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 22 | TE Connectivity (United Kingdom)Company | 17 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Precision Varionic International (United Kingdom)Company | 15 | not ranked | |
| 24 | CCm Technologies (United Kingdom)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Swindon Borough CouncilGovernment institution | 9 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Microsharp (United Kingdom)Company | 8 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Research Data AllianceNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Catalent (United Kingdom)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Associated Dental Products (United Kingdom)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 30 | AgSpace (United Kingdom)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Dycotec Materials (United Kingdom)Company | 2 | not ranked |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
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What is Swindon strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Swindon is most concentrated in Hardware and Architecture and Visual Arts and Performing Arts (13.8× the world share in Hardware and Architecture).
- Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 27.9 works14×
- Visual Arts and Performing ArtsSubfield · 31.2 works11×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
Which keywords describe research in Swindon?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Climate Change, High-Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, Pedagogy, Cultural Politics, Aesthetics and Machine Learning.
- Detector Performance
- Quantitative Methods
- Special Education
- Contemporary Art
- Art Theory
- Multicore Architectures
- Performance Optimization
- International Relations
- Gender Studies
- Cultural Politics
- Nationalism
- Parallel Computing
- Colonialism
- Ethics
- Gender
- Big Data
- Pedagogy
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Education
- Identity
- Literature
- History
- Cultural Studies
- High-Performance Computing
- Religion
- Thermal Management
- Aesthetics
- Distributed Systems
- Social Sciences
- GPU Computing
- CMOS Technology
- Social Engagement
- Relational Aesthetics
- Methodology
- Workflow Management
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change64▲ 1.32×82 topics
- Globalization60▲ 1.71×73 topics
- Machine Learning55◆ 0.93×73 topics
- Deep Learning52▼ 0.85×71 topics
- Epidemiology45▼ 0.64×100 topics
- Sustainability40◆ 0.91×70 topics
- Education35◆ 1.14×48 topics
- Pedagogy28▲ 3.2×12 topics
- Identity28▲ 2.2×40 topics
- Big Data28▲ 1.73×22 topics
- Literature26▲ 2.7×32 topics
- Gender25▲ 2.6×34 topics
- History24▲ 1.92×32 topics
- Ethics23▲ 2.7×29 topics
- Cultural Studies23▲ 3.4×16 topics
- Colonialism21▲ 2.5×31 topics
- High-Performance Computing20▲ 14×2 topics
- Parallel Computing19▲ 9.1×4 topics
- Religion19▲ 2.3×25 topics
- Nationalism19▲ 2.3×25 topics
- Thermal Management19▲ 3.1×7 topics
- Cultural Politics18▲ 15×4 topics
- Aesthetics17▲ 13×7 topics
- Gender Studies15▲ 5.5×8 topics
- Distributed Systems15▲ 5.0×6 topics
- International Relations15▲ 3.5×15 topics
- Social Sciences15▲ 5.9×5 topics
- Performance Optimization14▲ 12×3 topics
- GPU Computing14▲ 20×1 topic
- Multicore Architectures14▲ 20×1 topic
- CMOS Technology13▲ 9.3×5 topics
- Art Theory13▲ 46×2 topics
- Social Engagement13▲ 37×2 topics
- Contemporary Art12▲ 64×1 topic
- Relational Aesthetics12▲ 64×1 topic
- Special Education12▲ 11×4 topics
- Methodology12▲ 14×3 topics
- Quantitative Methods11▲ 43×1 topic
- Workflow Management11▲ 8.7×2 topics
- Detector Performance10▲ 18×2 topics
What research is done in Swindon?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Hardware and Architecture 14 works
- 2 Art, Politics, and Modernism Visual Arts and Performing Arts 12 works
- 3 Social and Educational Sciences Education 11 works
- 4 Museums and Cultural Heritage Museology 7 works
- 5 Corporate Governance and Management Strategy and Management 7 works
- 6 Cultural Industries and Urban Development Urban Studies 6 works
- 7 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 6 works
- 8 Heat Transfer and Optimization Mechanical Engineering 6 works
- 9 Particle Detector Development and Performance Nuclear and High Energy Physics 6 works
- 10 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 6 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.