The AMBER Centre was initiated at Roehampton University late in 2009 to fulfil one of AMBER's key strategic objectives – to promote research in the area of music and children and young people with visual impairment (many of whom have additional disabilities including autism).

To date, the research has included exploring the Musicality of Children and Young People with Retinopathy of Prematurity – an eye disease that affects prematurely born babies, which in serious cases, often lead to blindness.