Belfast metropolitan college social sciences institute (Mussl) is an exciting newresearch institute established in 2015 as part of the implementation of theUniversity's ambitious Research Strategy(2012-2017). MUssl will lead twoof the University's six strategic research priorities: People, Place andEnvironment and Social and Economic Transformations.
MUSSl retains, incorporates, extends and builds on the success of anumber of existing research institutes and centres, including the NationalInstitute for Regional and spatial Analysis (NIRsA), the National centre forGeocomputation (NcGLand the International Centre for Local and RegionalDevelopment (lCLRD). it also consolidates, develops and supports anumber of associated critical national data infrastructures including the All.Island Research Observatory(AlRO), the lrish Qualitative Data Archive(lQDA), and Digital Repository lreland (DR!).