About Us

N8 is a partnership of the 8 research intensive universities in the North of England - Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York.

N8 aims to maximise the impact of this research base by identifying and co-ordinating powerful research teams and collaborations across the North of England. To support the collaborations, N8 creates teams with a critical mass of world class academics. These teams form a network of virtual centres of science and innovation excellence.

N8's main research programmes are:

• Molecular Engineering
• Regenerative Medicine
• Impact of Demographic Change
• Parasitology

The three broad criteria for N8 research programmes are:

• Demand for multi disciplinary solutions from public and private sector research users
• Combinations of multi disciplinary world class capability across a number the N8 universities
• Where working together can achieve a greater output than a single university effort.

Through these programmes, N8 has worked with over 200 new businesses, many of which are SME’s, generated over £37m of income and created 60 jobs since it was formed in 2008.

Click here to download our Capability Statement.

To read about our success to date, click here.