Since its inception in 1990, BCFS has blended research and conservation to ensure sustainable management and utilisation of the Budongo Forest Reserve as a model for tropical rain forest management. In our new strategic plan we are aiming to continue generating world-class scientific research on primates as well as diversifying our research programme to encompass other biological taxa, and to use this information to support policy development, conservation action and sustainable resource management. ( More... ).

The Centre brings together a unique group of researchers in the Schools of Biology and Psychology who share a distinctive set of common interests in the study of social learning, culture and cognitive evolution. Core activities include a joint seminar programme, the promotion of a scheme for both Senior and Junior Visiting Research Fellows and shared postgraduate training. Supplementary activities include the organisation of workshops and conferences. ( More... ).

The 'Living Links to Human Evolution' Centre will allow a group of primatologists from the Universities of St Andrews, Stirling, Edinburgh and Abertay, already internationally renowned for their studies of wild monkeys and apes, to focus on more detailed aspects of behaviour closer to home. In an imaginative new move, the Centre will be built not at a University, but at Edinburgh Zoo. Studies will range over numerous fascinating topics such as tool use, communication, social relationships and intelligence.

The Fife-Tay Vision Group are a group of scientisits interested in vision and perceptual research. Based in the Fife and Tayside area of eastern Scotland our aim is to link perception research throughout the region. Our members primarily come from Abertay University, the University of Dundee and the University of St. Andrews, but we also have links to the University of Stirling. We have monthly reserach meetings to discuss scholarly research, funding opportunities and other visiony things. ( More... ).

The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is an interdisciplinary community of researchers who study the behaviour of human beings and other animals from cellular, neural, cognitive and evolutionary perspectives. The Institute brings together faculty members, research staff and students from the Schools of Biology, Psychology, Medicine and Chemistry, with the aim of fostering progress at interfaces of the behavioural and neural sciences. ( More... ).

The SPRG was formed in 1987, with a core membership of fieldworkers from the triangle of Edinburgh, St Andrews and Stirling Universities, each about an hour's travelling time from the others. Regular joint research meetings and seminars by national and international visitors are held and a network of associates swells attendance at these meetings. Field studies by core Group members are carried out at several sites in Africa, Asia and South America; studies of captive primates rely on well-housed breeding groups at Edinburgh Zoo, as well as major primate centres in France, Japan and U.S.A. ( More... ).

The Tay Social Psychology Group brings together social psychologists in the three Universities situated on either side of the Tay estuary: Abertay, Dundee and St. Andrews. Altogether, the group is approximately 20 strong, including academic staff, research staff and postgraduates. The group has been meeting together for over twenty years and is one of the largest and best established social psychology groups in the UK.