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  • REF 2021
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Future of research at Glasgow

Our future research will continue to be inspired by our commitment to social justice in education, making significant contributions to societal and industrial challenges such as climate change, pandemic effects and responses, and artificial intelligence, robotics and digital technology. We recognise that this will require concerted inter-disciplinary efforts, and we will be working within and contribution to the leadership of research themes that cross the College of Social Sciences and beyond within the following themes:

  1. Addressing Inequality

  2. The Digital Society and Economy

  3. Challenges in Changing Cities

  4. Sustainability, including challenges in low to medium-income countries

We have recently become engaged as collaborators in the community engagement component of the major NERC-funded Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation (GALLANT) project.

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We are activity engaging already with other schools the College of Social Sciences and beyond concerning the role and impact of digital data, providing the education component to the Urban Big Data Centre in the College of Social Sciences. We see opportunities to build on this urban big data research through the newly-established university Centre for Data Science. We will also build further on our collaborations with the University’s Institute of Health and Wellbeing to explore intersections between health and well-being, including within the recently funded MRC project, ASSIST Global, a schools-based smoking-prevention initiative in three low to middle income countries.

We will also in response to industrial challenges and workforce planning create new ways of collaborating with industry partners and the government departments responsible for education, skills and business. This will include building on our well-established partnerships with the university’s School of Engineering in the pedagogical uses of virtual and augmented reality.

Our international focus will continue to be prominent, as we take a leading role for the Global Sustainable Development theme in the new University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre (ARC), devoted to nurturing thematic research at scale, crossing traditional boundaries and established ways of working.

The theme will bring together 70+ academics to work on poverty reduction in low and middle-income countries, the climate-change agenda and broader concerns around sustainability.

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