Research
The College attracts substantial research awards of over £7m each year and has particular strengths in civil engineering and art & design – both rated top in Scotland and among the best in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise with 65% of the research activity in Computing rated as world leading. The College celebrates its unique combination of disciplines and seeks to capitalise on the enormous scope for interdisciplinary activity to achieve an imaginative, ambitious and visionary future.
The overarching strategic research objective of CASE is to galvanise across-School collaboration, harness opportunities for cross-disciplinary partnerships beyond the College, and support and develop research excellence within individual disciplines. Proposals for maximising excellence and increasing focus and impact through research across the College are encapsulated within the following seven key themes:
1. Bio-interfaces - the further development of bio-mathematics and bio-physics and linkages to the Institute of Medical Science & Technology (IMSaT)
2. Environment, Infrastructure & Sustainability - building on strengths such as Civil Engineering and Photonics
3. Digital Economy Futures & Culture: Exploring future technologies and user interactions through critical design software and product design, assistive technologies, serious games, visual effects for film & TV, future practices in design & craft, sustainable design, environmental solutions.
4. Visualisation & Application of Visual Thinking: Visualisation & simulation, mediating technology, information design, applying design thinking, public engagement, identity cultural & sense of place, design in public policy, society, business; service design; design in new contexts (health etc.); Exploring the economic/social impact of new practices.
5. Archival & Curatorial Practice History & Theory: Histories & archives; curation as practice; theoretical studies; artists’ practice-led research; large scale art and design projects.
6. User Experience: Digital economy and inclusion; healthcare technologies; interface design; learning technologies
7. Intelligent Systems: Computer vision; argumentation technology; space systems
Research Centres and Partnerships
An £8m investment from the Scottish Funding Council has supported the establishment of the Northern Research Partnership between Dundee, Aberdeen and Robert Gordon Universities to fund key appointments that enable engineering research groups to work jointly across the partnership in focussed areas (Civil Engineering, Medical Technologies, Computing, Energy and Nonlinear and Complex Systems). Civil Engineering at Dundee leads the Telford Institute initiative which is a partnership of all lead civil engineering departments in Scotland.
National Subsea Research Institute
The School plays a key role in the National Subsea Research Institute (NSRI), a partnership between Aberdeen, Dundee, Robert Gordon and Newcastle Universities and the UK subsea industry to develop and lead a co-ordinated research strategy for the subsea sector.
Scottish University Physics Alliance (SUPA)
Physics at the University of Dundee focuses on the fundamental challenges of bio and life systems and materials with very particular emphasis on photonics. It particularly focuses on real world challenges and its very strong interaction with industry, leading to a high degree of impact from its outputs. Dundee Physics forms one of the constituents of the Scottish University Physics Alliance (SUPA) and is a leader in Physics at the life sciences interface theme. The overarching research theme in Mechanical Engineering is on medical technologies and devices. It works closely with the College of Medicine Dentistry and Nursing and with the Institute for Medical Science & Technology (IMSaT) - an interdisciplinary institute for future Medical Technologies positioned at the interface between Physics and Engineering on the one hand and Clinical and Life Sciences on the other.
A valuable facility at Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Visual Research Centre provides researchers with a purpose built environment including a gallery space, which can be used for engaging the wider research community and public with our practices as well as supporting expositions, seminars, conferences, and other events.
The eagerly anticipated V&A at Dundee project symbolises the excellent culture of partnership-working evident in Dundee. Bringing the V&A to Dundee builds on the significant creative and digital talent already present in the city through Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and White Space at University of Abertay as well as complementing the city’s long heritage in comics and illustration and its newer and vital digital industries. V&A at Dundee will also provide an excellent showcase for the whole of Scotland’s applied arts and design community.
World leading research on spacecraft technology has been going on in the School of Computing at the University of Dundee for over a decade. This has led to the SpaceWire standard which is being used in many spacecraft by space organisations across the world, and the PANGU planet and asteroid simulation tool which is being used by ESA to help design navigation systems for future planetary landers. Environmental data from satellites has been received at Dundee since 1978 resulting in an extremely valuable archive of data for environmental change monitoring and other applications. The Space Technology Centre was formally opened by Lord Sainsbury in 2005 and the Satellite Receiving Station joined with the Remote Sensing Group at Plymouth Marine Laboratory to form the NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service in 2007.
Dundee University Centre for Renewable Energy
DUCRE focus is finding sustainable solutions to future energy needs that will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from current levels. DUCRE brings together expertise in a wide range of disciplines including; Physics, Electronics, Nanotechnology, Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Geography, Botanics, Town Planning, Architecture, Remote Sensing, The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law, and of course, Renewable Energy.
DUCRE is engaged in a wide range of diverse renewable energy and environmental research. Projects range from; electric vehicle technologies, to wind, solar, and hydro technologies, and from energy policy issues to Third World environmental development analysis. Additionally, we have the capability to utilize a full range of computer modelling techniques including state-of-the-art CFD analysis.
The Satellite Receiving Station collects data from several Earth observation satellites and distributes it to UK environmental scientists. The Satellite Receiving Station at Dundee operates the NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS) in partnership with the Remote Sensing Group at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and is the main receiving station in the UK for receiving environmental science data. NEODAAS is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), primarily to support the UK research community including marine, atmospheric and terrestrial scientists.
With a vibrant research environment and currently supporting 45 PhD students, DJCAD is now one of the most research intensive art schools in the UK - 1st in Scotland, top 15 in UK.
Civil Engineering research at Dundee was ranked 2nd in the UK in the Guardian University Guide for 2012. It ranked top in Scotland in both RAE exercises since 2001 and 6th and 8th in the UK. |
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