Welcome to the School of Informatics

The School of Informatics is at the forefront of international excellence and leadership in education and research for the information and computing professions.

Our portfolio of activity includes innovative undergraduate and postgraduate education, internationally-recognised research, and accredited professional development and practice.

At City University London, Informatics encompasses computing and information sciences and a number of specialities.

These include information management and retrieval, information-related legal and policy issues, library studies, geographic information, health informatics, human-computer interaction design, new media, computational creativity, computer games technology, component and service-based systems, requirements engineering and software dependability.

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State-of-the-art premises

School of Informatics staff and students benefit from state-of-the-art premises in City University London's historic College Building. Located in the heart of London, our approach to education draws on more than 100 years of tradition.

The purpose-built space includes specialist teaching rooms, a SAP Product lab and a high-tech Human Computer Interaction Design lab supported by The Vodafone UK Foundation. Find out more ...

Latest news & events

Wii-like technologies may help stroke survivors improve communication skills Researchers from City's Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design and Department of Language and Communication Science are working with The Stroke Association to exlpore how motion sensing technologies can be used in the rehabilitation of people with aphasia – a language impairment, commonly caused by a stroke.

Next Postgraduate Open Evening: Wednesday 10th November 2010, 5pm to 7:30pm Come along and find out more about our postgraduate courses in computing and information science.

giCentre visualizes data from TfL's Barclays Cycle Hire scheme The giCentre team has been developing visualization applications based on data from the new Transport for London Barclays Cycle Hire scheme. The first shows the availability of bikes in the last 24 hours at docking stations around London, in order of their proximity to any chosen station. It also allows comparison with yesterday's usage.