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The 1992 Strategic Review of Research in Education argued that educational research in Australia needed to be reoriented towards more team-based work focused on national priority areas. As one part of that reorientation it advocated the establishment of key research centres. Key research centres create an environment in which challenging, complex and sustained research can be conducted. Provided that the centres are adequately funded, experienced researchers can be freed to concentrate their energies on major problems. This brief paper provides analysis of the role of a research centre, based on observations of the Monash University-ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET). It reflects on the ways in which CEET's structure as a research centre enables a different way of doing vocational education and training research than if we were individual researchers loosely linked together.