Research

The Centre for Information Management explores a wide range of themes including digital ethics, AI governance, data sustainability, and socio-technical design. All our work supports a shared vision for building a responsible, sustainable information ecosystem of the future.

In an era of increasing concerns around the impact of artificial intelligence, the societal and health effects of social media, digital carbon emissions and the erosion of online privacy, our work is more urgent and relevant than ever.

We’re bringing together researchers from across disciplines with the common goals of empowering organisations to make the best use of new technologies, while minimising the potential dangers of irresponsible innovation.

Our research areas

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The ‘Dark Side of Digital’

At CIM, we explore how to mitigate the risk of digital technologies being misused to fuel misinformation, fraud, hacking, abusive networks, and other harmful activities.
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De-harming social media and digital platforms

We critically investigate how social media creates, amplifies, and redistributes harm across individuals, organizations, and the broader social fabric.

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Digital Decarbonisation

We want to help governments, businesses and organisations to minimise carbon emissions by adopting best practices in optimising how data is generated, processed and stored.
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Cybernetics

We apply cybernetics to real-world challenges in the fields of AI, organizational culture, decision-making, and governance, building understanding and managing complex, adaptive problems.

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Digital health and public futures

We are pioneering explorations of how social media and digital technologies impact public health and mental wellbeing, our research explores the opportunities and challenges of big data, AI, and machine learning in healthcare.

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Enterprise technologies

We critically investigate how organisations adopt, implement, and govern digital technologies to create sustainable value while managing risk, complexity, and unintended consequences.