About us

The Informatics Research Centre (IRC), within Henley Business School at the University of Reading, provides a centre of gravity for interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and knowledge transfer in Informatics.

The centre benefits from input of knowledge and expertise from various subject fields, including Biodiversity, Business Management, Economics, Information acquisition and assimilation, Intelligent Pervasive Spaces, Computer Science, Cognitive Science and Systems Engineering, across a number of Schools and beyond.

The Centre of Informatics Research aims to:

• Advance interdisciplinary research utilising the expertise and competences within the University of Reading 
• Undertake informatics research with support from UK and EU funding bodies
• Provide postgraduate education (i.e MRes, MSc, EngD and PhD programmes in Informatics) to meet local and national demand from industry as well as the international market
• Disseminate and transfer specialist knowledge in informatics and related fields from academic-to-industry and contribute to the British economy.

For more information please see the IRC Brochure.