School of Informatics

Welcome to the School of Informatics. We are at the forefront of international excellence and leadership in education and research for the information and computing professions.

Our portfolio of activity includes:

• Innovative undergraduate and postgraduate education
• Internationally recognised research
• Accredited development and practice - working with The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS),Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP).

Our areas of expertise include:

• Artificial intelligence
• Computational creativity
• Computer games technology
• Component and service-based systems
• Data visualisation
• Geographic information
• Information management and retrieval
• Information-related legal and policy issues
• Health informatics
• Human computer interaction design
• Library and information science
• Machine learning 
• Music informatics
• Neural information processing
• New media
• Programming technology
• Requirements engineering
• Software dependability
• Trustworthy computing
• Service oriented systems engineering.

Informatics students benefit from excellent work-based learning opportunities - combined with unrivalled support from our dedicated Professional Liaison Unit:

• One year placement or Professional Pathway Scheme for undergraduate students

• Up to six month's internship experience for postgraduate students.

Informatics students have an excellent record of employability:

• Over 87% of our postgraduate students were employed within six months of graduation - compared to the national average of 78% (HESA statistics, 2010)
• Over 70% of our undergraduate students were employed within six months of graduation - compared to the national average of 68.7% (HESA statistics, 2010).