Covenant encourages interdisciplinary approach to research and scholarship. Our researchers from different disciplines collaborate under different clusters to address key challenges facing the society both nationally and globally. The strategy has helped the University to identify its distinctive research competencies and platforms for the establishment of centres of excellence as well as the effective utilisation of research grants and findings.
Currently, Covenant has 30 research clusters, each with sub-clusters reflecting their different agenda, themes and strands.
The clusters include:
- African Development Issues
- Bioinformatics
- Biotechnology
- Built Environment
- Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Civil Environmental and Industrialisation
- Corrosion and Materials Science and Engineering
- Covenant University Public Health and Well-being
- Covenant University Women Development & Human Security Initiatives (CU-WDHSI)
- Discourse, Media & Society
- e-Government and e-Business
- Environmental Sustainability Issues
- Enactus (Student Researchers & Community Impacters;
- Gender, Peace and Conflict Resolution
- Hebron Start Up Lab
- Informal Sector
- Industrial Mathematics
- IoT – Enabled Smart & Connected Communities (IESCC)
- Mechatronics Engineering & Rapid Prototyping
- National Well-being and Behavioral Issues
- New Leadership Paradigm
- Petroleum Reservoir Production & Engineering
- Physics Cluster; Plant Science
- Product Development
- Public Private Partnership
- Renewable Energy
- Reverse Engineering and Kaizen
- Smart Cities: Emergence of E-governments and systems in Africa
- Smart and Green Cities Inspired Research
- Software Engineering, Modeling and Intelligent Systems
- The Future, Government and Security in Africa
- Urban Environmental Issues and National Development.