iSchool

The Manchester Metropolitan iSchool is a member of the international iSchool consortium of some 80 schools whose teaching and research programs are in the fields of information science and informatics, focusing on the study of the relationship of people, information and technology for the design and development of digital information and system solutions that benefit individuals, communities, culture and society.

At Manchester Met, our research clusters in the themes of ‘Digital Interactions & Transformations’ and ‘Creative Communications’

Digital Interactions focuses on the study of people’s interactions in digital contexts including Search Engines, Web Technologies, Social Media, Virtual Realities, XR, and with for example Big Data, Web Information and the Internet of Things.

Digital Transformations focuses on the study of the impact of digital interactions, in the research areas of Information and Digital Literacies, Information Discernment, Information Behaviour, Information Retrieval, User Perceptions, User Experience and the Posthuman Lens.

Creative Communications draws on the research in digital interactions and transformations and focuses on the design and development of new environments for communicating science, e-learning, storytelling, visualisations, and exhibits.

People in the iSchool [and core research area] 

We further collaborate with colleagues from across the university in shared domains, including from School of Digital Arts (SODA), from the Business School (MMUBS), from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Policy, Evaluation Research Unit (PERU), and from School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and the UX–VR Research Group.