School of Computing, Creative Technologies & Engineering
Data will continue to transform the modern world
Our School of Computing, Creative Technologies & Engineering – with its diversity of courses and subjects – has at its heart the recognition that data will continue to transform the modern world. It’s about understanding, innovating and designing solutions to tackle the societal wants and needs of today and of tomorrow; be it the drive to invent ever more immersive games to the emergent challenges arising from AI and robotics. This School aims to produce the technology and the systems that make the digital economy work, and the digital economy secure.
We want you to have a real world impact, to explore the human applications of various areas of expertise, and to feed off the opportunities this dynamic city and region have to offer; and to do this in partnership with our team of respected practitioners and researchers, an academic community that aims to fuse the creative with the technical. From the exploration of green information technology to advanced data analysis; to ethical hacking and programming innovations in assistive technology. This is a school where innovative research is helping us to forge ever deeper links with professional organisations like the police and health service, as well as other sector bodies.
All of our courses are focused on you and your learning needs, rooted in practice-based, industry-oriented and collaborative learning. Our aim is to foster your creative and technological skills, as well as your ability to be expansive, independent and imaginative thinkers and doers. And you 'do' from day one: from working with ITV to broadcast the England Women’s Hockey semi-finals; to gaming innovations that have won a plethora of Game Republic awards; and the opportunity to participate in our annual showcase to industry high fliers.
The strength of our offer is also rooted in our state-of-the art facilities and equipment which allow us to ignite your understanding and passion for interwoven, end-to-end digital ecosystems – from content to games to systems to networks.
We are delighted to welcome curious and self-motivated multi-taskers, keen to take advantage of our unique societies, industrial placement opportunities and meaningful internships and apprenticeships. Students keen to learn the skills that will shape them, excite them and prepare them for the real world of transformational work.

Dean
Professor Colin Pattinson
Colin Pattinson is Professor of Mobile and Converging Technologies and Head of School of Computing and Creative Technologies; his research focuses on sustainable 'green' IT and computer network management.
Read MoreOur Academic Team
- Professor Eddie Abbott-Halpin
- Dr Abdulrahman Altahhan
- Dr Pooneh Bagheri Zadeh
- Tim Blackwell
- Jamie Broadbent
- Paul Broughton
- Professor Tony Bryant
- Alan Burke
- Emlyn Butterfield
- Dr Maurice Calvert
- Jackie Campbell
- Margaret Chawawa
- Dr Giuseppe Colantuono
- Elizabeth Coombes
- Sarah Cooper
- Ben Dalton
- Ashley Dean
- Peter Defty
- Professor Jiamei Deng
- Dr Mark Dixon
- Paul Doney
- Lesley Earle
- Dr Jamal Elforjani
- Dr John Elliott
- Jonathan Emery
- Dr Marc Fabri
- Andrew Fitzpatrick
- Duncan Folley
- Rosalind Fuller
- Anatoliy Gorbenko
- Nabil Hadj-Ahmed
- Jodie Hill
- Pauline Hodgson
- Peter Holmes
- Amy Hunter
- Md Hussain
- Rasha Ibrahim
- Patrick Ingham
- Anthony Jenkins
- Che John
- Dr Mark Judge
- Dr Ah-Lian Kor
- Professor Andrew Lambourne
- Sanela Lazarevski
- Dr David Love
- Bruhanth Mallik
- Dr Mario Marino
- Rory McLeish
- Professor Dorothy Monekosso
- Dr Duncan Mullier
- Alison Munn
- Julian Old
- Graham Orange
- Alessandra Patania
- Professor Colin Pattinson
- Anthony Pearson
- Dr Martyn Prigmore
- Micaela Raffuzzi
- Dr Muthu Ramachandran
- Chelsea Reid
- Marielle Reuser
- Amrinder Romana
- Gary Roper
- Fash Safdari
- Jenny Schofield
- Dr Z. Cliffe Schreuders
- Dr Ebrahim Shaghouei
- Mohammad Shan-A-Khuda
- Simon Sharpe
- Dr Akbar Sheikh-Akbari
- Bal Singh
- Anthony J Smith
- Hugo Smith
- Dr Ryad Soobhany
- Mekala Soosay
- Lee Stocks
- Joy Tasker
- Professor Hissam Tawfik
- Dr David Tian
- Dr Pip Trevorrow
- Kiran Voderhobli
- Harriet Holling
- Anthony Walker
- Thomas Walker
- Darren Wall
- Sean Wilcock
- Ryan Woods
- Dr Rosemary Wyatt-Millington
- Shumei Zhang
Course Areas

- BEng (Hons) Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- BEng (Hons) Engineering Management (Top-up)
- BEng (Hons) Robotics & Automation
- BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology
- BSc (Hons) Computer Forensics
- BSc (Hons) Computer Forensics & Security
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science
- BSc (Hons) Computer Security
- BSc (Hons) Computing
- MEng Computer Forensics & Security
- MEng Computer Science
- MEng Robotics & Automation
Postgraduate

Student Work
Our Research Centres

Cybercrime and Security Innovation Centre
A collaborative hub for research and development related to cybercrime, digital security, forensics and safety.