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Doctoral Programme
HighWire: Creating Innovative People for Radical
Change in the Digital Economy
Director: Professor Gordon Blair.
Discipline-specific Advice: Professor Gordon Blair (Computing);
Dr Leon Cruickshank (Design); Dr Mike Chiasson (Management).
Entry Requirements: Applicants should hold at least an upper second
class honours degree, or its equivalent, or a Masters degree in one of
the following disciplines: Computing, Design, Management.
Assessment: Original research and thesis.
IELTS: 6.5 min or TOEFL 580 (paper-based test), 237 (computer-based
test), 93 (internet-based test).
Funding: EPSRC Doctoral Training Awards – see also page 196. .comp.lancs.ac.uk
Further Information: highwire.lancaster.ac.uk
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HighWire is a world class, cross-disciplinary and user-centric
Doctoral Training Centre at Lancaster University which brings
together our world-class expertise in computing, design and
management.
Our Doctoral Training Programme spans four years and consists of
an initial year of both formal and practical training, culminating in
the award of a Masters of Research (MRes), followed by a three-
year period of study leading to a PhD (i.e. successful students
completing the programme will achieve two degrees).
Computing
In the programme, we go beyond traditional multi-disciplinary
approaches by seeking a creative fusion between three key
disciplines, namely computer science, management and design. The
emphasis is on producing a new breed of innovative people who
understand and are able to advance the state of the art in
technical, design and business innovation: innovative people
prepared to work in challenging roles in organisations and ready to
drive radical change in the digital economy.
Jackie Mellor
echnology:
MRes Human Computer Interaction
We closely align with the needs and goals of business and industry Current position: Independent consultant for the NHS
to ensure the relevance of our programme and to encourage
technology exchange and early adoption of emerging technologies,
processes and ideas. This builds on the strengths of Lancaster
“I had been working as a web designer for about ten years.
University’s InfoLab21 initiative, a recognised leader in technology
Mainly designing for large financial companies, I was very
exchange, to seek a more value-added and marketable pathway
experienced, but felt there was something missing. I became
from the digital laboratory to the marketplace.
interested in methods of requirements gathering - especially
ethnography - and the MRes was flexible enough to let me
concentrate on this area during my dissertation.”
Science and T
The Doctoral Training Centre is one of only a handful of UK
Doctoral Training Centres to be funded by the EPSRC Digital
Economy programme and is supported by a range of companies
“I use the skills I developed during my MRes in my work every
including: AT&T, BBC, BT, Clifford Chance, CSMTC, HP Labs,
day. The MRes enabled me to get a job in a large consultancy
Knowledge Partners, Microsoft, Mott MacDonald, O2 and Sony in company, where I specialised as a User Experience Consultant.
addition to 20 micro-businesses and SMEs in the Northwest. It also allowed me to shift focus from the end of the design
process to the beginning, where usability tools and techniques
make a lot more difference to the end product. As a result of
the things I learned on the course my role changed to active
participation in shaping the benefits and requirements of some
of the largest IT systems in the UK.”
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