- Cancer
- Catchment and River Applied Research (CaRAR)
- Catchment and River Science
- Cell/tissue models
- CENORE - Centre of Excellence in Naval Oceanography and Research
- Centre for Advanced Engineering Systems and Interactions (CAESI)
- Centre for Coastal and Ocean Science and Engineering (CCOSE)
- Centre for Coastal Communities
- Centre for Cyber Security, Communications and Network Research (CSCAN)
- Centre for Decarbonisation and Offshore Renewable Energy
- Centre for Health Technology
- Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT)
- Centre for Innovations in Health and Social Care
- Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS)
- Centre for Research in Earth Sciences (CRES)
- Centre for Research in Environment and Society (CeRES)
- Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS)
- Centre for Systems Thinking: Ocean, Land and Society
- Centre of Excellence in Naval Oceanography and Research
- Children and Families
- CIDER – Cornwall Intellectual Disability Equitable Research
- Clinical Neuroscience
- Clinical skills innovation
- Clinician led medical research
- CMAR - Coastal Marine Applied Research
- COAST Engineering Research Group
- Coastal Processes Research Group
- Collaboration for Compassion in Healthcare Education (C4CHEd)
- Collaboration for the Advancement of Medical Education Research and Assessment (CAMERA)
- Community and Primary Care Research Group
- Comparative Social Policy Research Group
- Competition, Innovation and Positioning (CIP)
- Composites Engineering
- Consequences of tourism and events
- Cornerstone Heritage
- Culture and Heritage Exchange (CHEx)
- Cyber-SHIP Lab