Research
Research
Welcome to our research pages which summarise our interests and give examples of the impact it has had.
We carry out fundamental computing science research which we evaluate and extend through application to industrial and interdisciplinary challenges. Our work constantly evolves to address the new challenges posed by a fast-changing environment: one in which computer systems become ever more complex, critical and interconnected, as well as often being directly related to the public at large.
Research Groups and Themes
Our research groups reflect the areas in which Newcastle has major expertise.
The current groups are:
- Biology, Neurosciences and Computing
- Concurrent Asynchronous Systems
- Dependability
- Human-Computer Interaction
- System Modelling and Simulation
- Systems
See the individual web pages for more details. Many researchers are active in more than one group.
Research in the groups is supplemented by agile and cross-cutting themes. These are formed to address new challenges which do not fall neatly into the remit of one of the current groups. For more information about particular themes, please select the appropriate link from the menu at the left hand side.
Research Centres
We have five research units that further stimulate our research:
- Centre for Software Reliability (CSR)
- North Eastern Regional e-Science Centre (NEReSC)
- Informatics Research Institute (IRI)
- Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning : Active Learning in Computing (CETL: ALiC)
- Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security (CCCS)
See more information on the centres.
Projects
All our research groups are supported by, and in many cases lead, large multi-site national and international projects involving the active engagement of both industry and other research disciplines. We currently have a portfolio of projects worth over 10M, and have had many successful projects in the past.
Impact
Over the last 50 years, our research has had a significant impact on both the wider field of academic research and on the computer industry. For example the Impact Project of the ACM Special Interest Group in Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) noted that:
"Without researchers laying the foundations in Computer Science departments at Brown, CMU, Cambridge, Newcastle, MIT, Vrije, University of Washington and without industrial researchers consolidating basic research results, we would not have the 8.5 billion dollar middleware market in the same form as we have it today"
