About us
Professor Chris Taylor, Associate Vice President for Digital and Innovation at The University of Manchester, outlines the work and aims of Digital Futures.
Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network that operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research.
Digital Futures aims to present a coherent overview of our digital research activity to external stakeholders and bring together our research communities to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.
We group our activity around five focused pillars that encapsulate our broad research capabilities and the challenges to which these can be applied. These are Cultures, Environments, Health, Economy, and Society.
These themes do not operate as self-contained entities; however, there is considerable synergy and overlap between them.
A senior academic provides leadership for each theme and works with other theme leads as part of the Management Board to maintain an overview of Digital Futures and explore opportunities.
Strategic direction and oversight to the University’s Digital Futures activity is provided by the Strategic Advisory Board.