The School of Computing and Digital Technologies currently caries out research that can be categorised by four themes of excellence: People and Technology; Information, Systems and Organisations; Intelligent and Autonomous Technologies and the Digital Economy.

Under these broad themes, researchers in the Department are active in a number of areas of theoretical and applied computer science and informatics including:

• Ad-hoc and sensor networks
• Robotics
• Machine intelligence
• Conceptual structures
• Visualisation
• Games and Virtual Reality
• Cybersecurity & Edge System Protection

Research staff and students

The Department has 34 post-graduate research students and 17 staff with significant responsibility for research including two professors and two readers.

• Chris Roast is Reader in Human-Computer Interaction and is the department’s knowledge exchange lead.
• Alessandro Di-Nuovo is Professor of Machine Intelligence and is the leader of technological and digital innovations for independent lives for the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre.

External funding

The School of Computing and Digital Technologies has a strong track record of external research funding. It has secured over £3m of external grants since 2014, undertaking applied, collaborative and inter-disciplinary projects in areas including health, business enterprise, education, games and security.

Explore some of our research projects

Contact us

To discuss the Schools's research, email Chris Roast