[4] The Wessex Institute’s activities are divided into 3 core areas: Research, Conferences and Publishing.

Based at Ashurst Lodge, it publishes conference proceedings, journals and a number of specialised research monographs and edited works.

[11][12] The Wessex Institute of Technology previously organised a conference on design and nature,[13] whilst WIT Press publishes the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, which has attracted attention for the subject matter of some of the papers presented and published.

[14] Contributions to its 2004 International conference programme included a joint paper by Scott A. Minnich and Stephen C. Meyer reiterating claims disputing evolution of the bacterial flagellum.

[15] The paper was cited in the landmark Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District legal case, being the first direct challenge brought in the United States federal courts testing a public school district policy that required the teaching of intelligent design.