Research Excellence
As well as providing some 4,600 graduates in IT-related disciplines each year,
universities in Wales are home to researchers and academics. Leaders in their fields with the backing to take new technologies all the way. They work closely with industry to shorten the route between R&D and the market place.
Our ambition is to see Welsh science make an even bigger impact. We want to foster new relationships, technology transfers, collaboration and product licenses. We want the world to connect to our academic excellence.
Academic Expertise for Business (A4B)
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced the launch of a £70m investment package intended to boost the economy by unlocking the massive commercial potential of research and development in Welsh universities.
a six-year project funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and European Structural Funds, is geared to ensure Wales maximises the economic impact of academic institutions.
It is designed to provide the basis for Wales to become a leading player in key technologies, giving businesses a competitive edge which is important in the current economic conditions.
Centre for Advanced Software and Intelligent Systems (CASIS)
CASIS is a joint venture between the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and the School of Computer Science at Cardiff University.
CASIS offers three types of service and many years of experience in collaborative projects with its clients:
• Custom application software consulting and development
• Domain specific contract research
• Training in specific aspects or skills within software engineering
Centre for Communications and Software Technology (CAST)
CAST, at the University of Wales Swansea, is based on the research of a multidisciplinary group of communication engineers and computer scientists, with expertise in communications, software technologies and multimedia systems.
Core services offered by CAST include contract research, consultancy, basic and advanced training and specialist workshops to raise awareness of emerging technologies. It has collaborated with a range of local, national and international companies.
Health Informatics Research Laboratories
The Health Informatics Research Laboratories (Research Labs) at Swansea University is focusing on evaluation, research and innovation that supports real patient benefits to the NHS in Wales and beyond through the delivery of healthcare IT innovations centred on the patient.
Jointly run by Informing Healthcare (IHC)* and the Centre for Health Information, Research and Evaluation (CHIRAL) of the Swansea Medical School’s Institute of Life Science, the Research Labs is designed to form “NHS in a lab”, a safe and accessible research facility for development, testing and evaluation of ICT systems and devices. The major function of the Research Labs is to:
- Simulate real-world healthcare settings for safety, usability and interoperability studies
- Prototyping environment, available to commercial companies
- Collaborative R&D with university experts
- Training environment for health informatics professionals
- View and download interactive eBrochures
* IHC is the Welsh Assembly Government programme set up to improve health services in Wales.
Information Security Research Group
The Information Security Research Group has a strong and well-established theme in the areas of network security, forensics and threat. The group is focusing on the issues associated with the design and development of early warning systems that are capable of detecting and responding to a variety of cyber based attacks, and on the issues associated with computer forensics science. The aim of the research group is to undertake research in the following areas:
- Network Security, Intrusion Detection Systems and Wireless Security.
- Threat Assessment and Threat Measurement
- Computer Forensics and Computer Evidence Visualization
- Vulnerability Assessment, Mitigation and Management
Institute of Advanced Telecommunications (IAT)
IAT was founded in late 2005 as a unique collaboration between Swansea University and some of the worlds leading multinationals and most entrepreneurial smaller businesses.
Underpinning Swansea Universities enviable multidisciplinary research strength in Engineering, Computing, Physics and Mathematics the £30million investment was with the aim to create a research led environment that focuses on developing products with real commercial potential, making Wales a global hub for research and development in the sector.
Mobile Communications Research Group – Glamorgan University
The Centre brings together relevant research on wireless communications and mobile computing to form an overall comprehensive framework for research and development in the field. The research themes of ICRC are all focused on Next Generation (NG) communications networks and services.
Technium CAST forms part of the Technium Wales network, a series of technology-led business incubation environments dedicated to providing the relevant knowledge, support and physical facilities to help young technology businesses realise their potential for long-term growth.
Technium CAST (Centre for Advanced Software Technology) focuses on exploiting the commercial potential of high performance distributed computing, particularly as the market for collaborative GRID software grows.
