Key technical research skills

Key technical research skills include the following areas and research groups:

• Scheduling and optimisation: The Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning (ASAP) research group
• Data modelling and analysis:  the Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Group
• Geospatial informatics: The Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy work closely with the Centre for Geospatial Science
• Ubiquitous informatics: The Mixed Reality Laboratory

This technology-oriented capability is complemented by expertise in understanding the human and business aspects of operations in a digital world spanning:

• human factors
• psychology
• science and society
• business and innovation
• economic policy

This incorporates the following research areas.

• Users: The Human Factors Group explores how individuals and teams interact with transportation service while the Learning Sciences Research Institute explore the cognitive, social and cultural aspects of lifelong learning including tourism, cultural and museum visiting
• Innovation: The University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation is a leading centre of excellence in the development of enterprise and entrepreneurial skills, innovation, and understanding the commercialisation of research
• Society: uniting perspectives from the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences to understand the ethical, social and policy challenges arising from the relationship between science and technology and our wider society. Researchers within Film and Media are also exploring new forms of media production and consumption and their cultural influence on society.