Introduction

Through Connected Futures we harness innovation to build trust in the digital infrastructures that underpin modern lives and to ensure that they benefit everyone.

Our research addresses the critical issues of living and working in the digital age and focuses on the rapid contemporary changes in the interactions between people, material objects and digital media worlds. From how to develop the internet of things in safe, human-centred and reliable ways to exploring how digital technologies can enable the creation and distribution of content for social, cultural and business purposes and enable transactions in secure and trusted ways. Collaborating with industry, we turn ideas into reality and advance our connected lives.

As a result of extensive mapping, Connected Futures initiatives have been agreed which aim to build upon cross-School and cross-CORE interests, and support interdisciplinary partnerships that will lead to the generation of research income and research outputs.

The themes are :

The Connected Futures initiatives are supported primarily through:

  • Internal Facing Networking Lunches
  • External Facing Consortia Forming Workshops

These events are supported by the Brighton Futures Admin team, in terms of booking and attendance data capture etc; the Connected Futures Knowledge Exchange Manager, in terms of forthcoming funding calls, and a short-term dedicated Connected Futures Post Doc Research Fellow in terms of bid writing.

These activities will embed the Connected Futures secondary aim of clustering R&E activity around our existing technical facilities, and embedding those others that have been provided through our leadership of the Brighton Digital Catapult Centre. Connected Futures aims to support staff to include the following technical facilities in bid development.

  • Biometrics Personal Data Suite at the Creative Methods Lab
  • Data Research & Innovation Lab
  • 5G Testbed
  • Fab Lab

Additionally, Connected Futures are delighted to have agreed an academic track to the Develop Conference, the largest gathering of game developers in Europe, held in Brighton every July. University of Brighton academic staff involved in gaming, serious games, play and gamification research that has industry relevance present papers at this prestigious event. We aim to consolidate a Knowledge Transfer relationship with the games industry and agree a special edition journal to publish the work we share.

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