英联邦研究所成立于1949年，是英国唯一一个致力于英联邦研究的研究生学术机构。该研究所是与政策相关的研究，研究促进和教学的国家和国际卓越中心。作为高等学校（在新窗口中打开）该研究所成立于1994年，与其他八个着名的研究生研究机构合作，在人文和社会科学的广泛学科领域之间提供学术机会。
我们是许多研究生学习课程的所在地，包括运行时间最长的跨学科和以实践为导向的课程英国人权硕士课程（在新窗口中打开）;这通过远程学习提供的第一个难民研究生学位（在新窗口中打开）;和远程学习人权学位（在新窗口中打开）.该研究所还提供研究学位和研究培训。
该研究所是人权联合会（在新窗口中打开）和难民法倡议（在新窗口中打开）.
该研究所的图书馆是一个国际资源，拥有超过190，000册藏书，其中特别令人印象深刻的加勒比，南部非洲和澳大利亚馆藏以及200多个档案馆藏。

Established in 1949, the Commonwealth Institute is the UK's only postgraduate academic institution dedicated to the study of the Commonwealth. The Institute is a national and international centre of excellence for policy-related research, research promotion and teaching. Established in 1994 as an institution of higher learning (opened in a new window), the Institute, in collaboration with eight other prestigious postgraduate research institutions, offers academic opportunities between a wide range of subject areas in the humanities and social sciences.
We are home to a number of postgraduate study programmes, including the longest running interdisciplinary and practice-oriented programme the UK Masters of Human Rights (open in a new window); The first refugee graduate degree offered through distance learning (opens in new window); And distance learning human rights degrees (open in new window). The Institute also offers research degrees and research training.
The Institute is the Human Rights Federation (open in New window) and the Refugee Law Initiative (open in New window).
The Institute's library is an international resource with over 190,000 volumes, including particularly impressive Caribbean, Southern African and Australian collections as well as over 200 archival collections.