Digital futures

Digital is everywhere, digital touches everything we think or do. Digital technologies will reshape and recode our lives. Here at UWE Bristol we’re exploring everything from big data and machine learning to cyber security, from digital ethics to deep fakes and beyond. Transforming lives and the world we live in.

Our research strengths include:

  • robotics, artificial intelligence and advanced engineering
  • industrial digitalisation, high-value design and next generation services
  • future mobile communications, ubiquitous computing, data science and cybersecurity.
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Cyber crime

We are helping authorities worldwide to tackle the ever-evolving problem of financial crime. Drawing on our expertise, we are turning the tables on fraudsters by empowering police forces to intervene.
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Digital ethics

We are working to preserve creative freedom after the democratisation of machine learning has opened up a world of possibilities, and ethical conundrums, for the film and TV industry.

Breaking research boundaries

We’re tackling the big issues of today and tomorrow head on. This is big, brave thinking for a better future. It’s research done well. Research with the power to transform lives, transform the future.  

Breaking research boundaries

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Postgraduate research study

Postgraduate research at UWE Bristol offers you the opportunity to contribute to our leading edge research and work alongside our international experts.