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Our research focusses on providing knowledge, insight and innovative technological breakthroughs that transform healthcare, education, manufacturing, the built environment and business models, promoting social cohesion and human mobility while mitigating the impacts of climate change and ageing populations and protecting against cybercrime. 

Aligned with the Government’s GCRF challenge areas and Industrial Strategy ‘Grand Challenges’, our strengths mean we can make a significant impact on the industrial and global societal challenges with our challenge-led, interdisciplinary research. 

Our excellent disciplinary digital research supports our Health strategic challenge area by pioneering new technologies for assistive technology, telehealth, robotics and AI.  It also provides knowledge, insight and innovative technological breakthroughs in Industry 4.0: the automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, including the Internet of things, cloud computing and cognitive computing.

Our work in digital futures, AI and Big Data

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Research expertise

Our multidisciplinary digital research is underpinned by a number of research groups including:

Digital Futures, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data