Research Opportunities
Interdisciplinary Research Schools
In addition, the University has established five interdisciplinary Research Schools which will support our increasing interdisciplinary research by crossing traditional departmental and faculty boundaries:
Health and Life Sciences
Relevant to both the primary and secondary care sectors, the Health and Life Sciences Research School’s strengths fall into three broad areas of: health, exercise and nutrition,health technology,and health and human sciences. These include specific expertise in: healthy ageing and independent living, current and emerging medical devices and their manufacture, regenerative medicine, innovation and information management for healthcare, integrated healthcare systems, healthcare built environment, work health, social care and improvement of service delivery.
Sustainability
The Sustainability Research School brings together expertise in sustainability-related research from across the University to develop new, multidisciplinary research activity. Key areas include: sustainable design and manufacture, sustainable energy and transport, water supply, waste water and waste management, built environment/ building performance, environmental science and natural resource management, and sustainable societies and economics.
Materials
Specific areas of expertise within the Materials Research School include: structural materials, functional materials, nanomaterials, biomaterials and recyclability, manufacturing technologies, and materials modelling. The School facilitates research at the discipline boundaries and encourages initiatives in important emerging areas. There is particular emphasis on providing solutions to real industrial problems, from life extension to the development of novel materials.
Informatics
Informatics has computational, cognitive and social dimensions, and is applicable to information from any subject domain or in any discipline or activity. The Research School of Informatics’ research covers many areas including: algorithm design, biomedical engineering and health informatics, intelligent and interactive systems, knowledge management, communications and control systems, and vision and image processing.
Systems Engineering
Systems Engineering delivers optimised solutions by tackling issues such as increasing system complexity across multidisciplinary domains. The Research School of Systems Engineering undertakes interdisciplinary systems engineering research spanning a wide area of engineering applicability from aerospace, automotive, autonomous systems, construction, electronic, rail, medical and health technology, telecommunications and other related fields.