Lancaster University is a research university in the north-west of England, founded by royal charter in 1964. It joined the EU–Japan BigClouT project as a European partner from the big data domain, contributing to the platform and analytics research behind the project’s four city pilots, including pollution-aware walking routes in Bristol.
Lancaster University is a collegiate research university based on a 300-acre campus at Bailrigg, south of the city of Lancaster. Founded in 1964, it has around 18,600 students across four faculties: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; Health and Medicine; Science and Technology; and Lancaster University Management School. It consistently ranks among the top fifteen universities in the UK national league tables.
Computing and data research sits within the Faculty of Science and Technology, where the School of Computing and Communications works from the InfoLab21 building. The university also runs a cross-disciplinary Data Science Institute.
Lancaster University links fundamental research with partnerships across industry, the public sector and communities. In smart city work, its focus is on turning large, mixed sources of urban data into analytics and services that cities and citizens can use.
Big data and analytics research: platform and analytics research for city data, as contributed to the BigClouT distributed city data platform.
Collaborative research projects: participation in EU-funded consortia that test new technologies with cities, such as BigClouT (Horizon 2020, 2016–2019).
Education and training: undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in computing, communications and data science.
