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School of Informatics

Research in the School of Informatics

The School of Informatics undertakes world-class multi-disciplinary research in strategic areas of Computing and Information Science. In the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) over 85% of the School's academic staff were ranked at 4 or 5, indicating research of international and national excellence in almost all areas.

Since 2001 the School has been awarded over £4.3m of new research funding on top of existing research grants from the Research Councils, European Union and other prestigious sources. Furthermore, the School's total services-rendered contracts of over £1.4m has enabled us to exploit our research results over the same period, from organisations such as the UK's National Air Traffic Services and the Disability Rights Commission. These research and service-rendered grants support a population of over 40 research staff. The School also has a large and dynamic community of over 80 PhD students. Read about recent research highlights here.

Research takes place in five Departments and Centres with their own specialisms.

Centre for Health Informatics

  • E-health and telecare
  • High dependency medicine
  • Public health

Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design

  • User-centred requirements engineering
  • User diversity, with particular focus on disabled and elderly users
  • Interaction design and usability evaluation

Centre for Software Reliability

  • Software dependability (particularly safety and reliability) modelling
  • Software fault tolerance
  • Software metrics and quality assurance
  • Fundamental issues for safety critical systems

Department of Computing

  • Autonomous Intelligent Systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Music Informatics
  • Programming Languages and Systems

Department of Information Science

  • Core information science and interactive systems
  • Geographical information science

In RAE2008 the School will submit to 3 Units of Assessment