Research
ACE has ambitious plans to continue and extend its research through more externally funded projects as well as knowledge transfer and business collaboration activities supported by UEL’s Knowledge Dock. Our collaborative activities with industry continue to thrive as we reap the benefits of using industry as our laboratory. Ace's’s research papers available through UEL Open Access Institutional Repository, ROAR, reflect the applied nature of our research and its potential and actual economic and social impacts. Staff within ACE lead and participate on a number of externally funded research projects. We have successfully led two European Regional Development Fund projects on Sustainability (Eureka) and m-Commerce (m-com) assisting local SMEs in meeting the challenges in these key areas. Professor Cornelia Boldyreff and her research team are active within the EU FP7 project, Pandora, developing and investigating an Advanced Training Environment for Crisis Scenarios and collaborate with colleagues within the eCentre based at the University of Greenwich. ACE is a partner in the MIDAS Project: Creating the Museum Integrated Digital Archiving System in collaboration with Matrix East Research Lab directed by Professor Haim Bresheeth.
Research within our School serves a number of important objectives
- Knowledge production: this includes both pure and applied research and original investigations. We have nearly 50 PhD students working on original contributions to knowledge.
- Knowledge transfer and regeneration of our local region: through knowledge transfer partnerships(www.ktponline.org.uk) and working with local authorities, businesses and utilities, our research contributes to economic growth and social well-being of our local region.
- Informing consultancy and contract research: expertise and skills gained through research feeds into consultancy and contract research for outside organisations where specific solutions to problems and situations are needed.
- Informing teaching: engaging in research necessitates our staff being up-to-date in their subject and allows them the opportunity of using their research as case studies in their teaching.
- Increasing numbers of postgraduate research students: students are attracted to our School by its innovative work and supportive research culture.
Much of our research is cross-disciplinary and we work with a number of partner Schools and Research Centres within UEL:
- School of Arts and Digital Industries
- Royal Docks Business School
- Cass School of Education and Communities
- School of Health, Sport and Biosciences
- Matrix East Research Laboratory
The school is proud to have a UK National Teaching Fellow, Ms Sharon Brown, who has been recognised for her innovative research applied in teaching and learning developments within the school.
The school’s portfolio of Masters of Science programmes and postgraduate research programmes is at the backbone of its research environment. Many of the CITE’s contributions to ROAR reflect the fruits of these students’ research working under the supervision of the school’s large team of academic staff, particularly to our annual Advances in Computing and Technology Conference and the titles of PhDs awarded since 2008 reflects the breadth of research within ACE.
Research is at the core of ACE’s activities and acts as a barometer of its future. We are focussing developing and sustaining our primary research and developing our applied research through knowledge transfer and enterprise. Our key goals in the near future have been identified in our school’s research plan as follows: increased staff engagement in funded research and knowledge transfer activities, sustaining our postgraduate research, and improving our research performance as measured by high quality research outputs, clearly identified impacts, and a vibrant research environment.
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