GLOBAL has a long history of working with both public and private sector organisations at a local, regional, national and international level by collaborating through contract research and consultancy. Our academic staff are leading experts in their field and can offer your business valuable insights and advice. “GLOBAL Enterprise” will work with you to assess your requirements quickly and accurately; we can then outline how the academic's expert advice can benefit your business.

Areas of Expertise

Management and Business Development

• Human resource management - emphasising corporate innovation, in an international comparative perspective
• Management science - particularly simulation modelling and analysis and optimisation methods
• Management research - particularly strategy, services marketing and quality management, public sector management, manufacturing management and information systems
• Accounting and finance - including financial management in the public and profit-seeking sectors, environmental and social aspects of accounting, financial econometrics, security price behaviour, cash flow analysis, the law and practice of auditing, accounting history and international accounting
• Actuarial science - particularly long-term care and underwriting
• Economics - particularly labour economics, development economics, international finance and trade, European economics, regional and transport economics, public economics and economic theory
• Commercial law

Computer Science

• Networks and Distributed Systems - open distributed processing, performance modelling and evaluation, interactive digital TV, high-speed packet classification, mobile and nomadic computing environments, applications involving multicasting, policy-based enterprise specification, distributed multimedia systems, system monitoring, exploiting content addressable memory, infrastructure to support decentralised and ad hoc networks, multicast routing and quality of service
• Theoretical Computer Science - designing future programming systems, extending formal methods theory, pragmatics of existing programming systems, program verification, programming language semantics, memory management, refinement, integrating computer algebra and reasoning, applying formal methods to distributed systems, abstract interpretation and graph manipulation
• Systems Engineering - unifying theories of programming, software architectures for dependable systems: design-time and run-time evolution, formal and semi-formal software and systems engineering, testing, transforming, refining and verifying models, object orientated approaches, industrial applications, concurrency: languages, systems and processors
• Applied and Interdisciplinary Informatics Group - exploitation of biological metaphors for computation, data analysis, visualisation and exploration, knowledge discovery and data mining, spatio-temporal databases, health informatics and computational biomedicine, mobile, context-aware and ubiquitous computing
• Computers and Education Research Group - computer science education and disciplinary-specific pedagogic approaches, design and use of initial learning environments for programming.