CSCP acts as a conduit, facilitating and providing access to our unique specialist equipment and research facilities. 

Our group’s goals are achieved by working collaboratively, both cross-discipline and with commercial partners. This approach provides cross-fertilisation of ideas and methodologies, enabling us to deliver innovative, environmentally friendly and green methods of chemicals synthesis. In turn, this allows us to develop unique solutions that have a direct industrial impact.  

We place particular importance on: 

• Delivering cutting-edge catalysis science and sustainable chemistry 

• Developing a fundamental understanding of catalytic processes, leading to new, sustainable (“green”) industrial catalytic processes 

• Bringing together academic and industrial researchers with interests in catalysis, synthetic and sustainable/green chemistry, and chemistry for energy, i.e. sustainable chemical processes 

• Providing a forum for knowledge and expertise exchange around catalysis science and sustainable chemistry and their applications in academia and industry

• Promoting catalysis and sustainable chemistry science in Durham, the North East, and the wider region 

• Encouraging, facilitating, and developing sustainability in chemical manufacturing 

• Organising and hosting catalysis-themed meetings, seminars, and conferences 

• Training graduate students and post-doctoral research associates in catalysis and sustainable chemical science 

• Facilitating collaborative research projects and multidisciplinary grant applications working with both industry and academic partners