Health data insight The blizzard of health data enabled by performative leaps in data collection technology, organization and computational power, will only help us if there is a corresponding advance in analytics, ethics and governance.
Digital Railway Innovation The Centre of Excellence in Digital Systems at the University of Birmingham brings together existing academic and industry capabilities, supporting transformational change in rail technology across the globe.
Precision Toxicology Current techniques to assess toxicity are slow, expensive and the results often translate poorly to humans. The PrecisionTox research group is developing new toxicology methods to increase public safety.
Counter radicalisation policies Dr Katherine Brown researches how Muslim communities across the world developed rights within Islamic discourses and how they liaised with civil rights organisations and secular organisations after September 11th 2001.
Cleaning up the skies The University of Birmingham is playing a vital role in providing the air-quality data and science to inform policy makers and protect the public health of citizens in the world's cities.
crafting-air-pollution-policies From London to Guangzhou, Nepal to Rwanda, air pollution is rising up the political agenda as evidence of its far-reaching health consequences increases.
Counter-terrorism review Counter-terrorism legislation, instruments and policies are proliferating throughout the world and becoming permanent modes of governance. Too little is known about the accountability and review mechanisms behind them.
Data Communication University of Birmingham researchers are helping us to understand how the way data is communicated can have a profound effect on the way it's understood. Find out more about our work in data communication here.
Data Driven Decision Making Mathematicians at the University of Birmingham are discovering new methods of analysing sentiment at a scale that meets the needs of policy makers. Find out more here.
Data Privacy With the excitement around technology and it's potential for improving our society, it's easy to forget, or ignore, the risks that it poses. Our researchers are exploring how to safely manage digital transformation.
Diagnosing our cities City-regions, much like the human body, are a complex coming together of systems and interdependencies, but we have failed to properly read cities.
Welfare and Superdiversity What would be a better approach to understanding welfare provision? A research approach that reflected the true nature of superdiverse communities and the reality of their changing demands?