Horizon

Shaping the future through ubiquitous technology

Welcome. This is an archive of Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute’s website to preserve past content for reference and historical purposes

Horizon was a multidisciplinary centre of excellence for Digital Economy research, based within the School of Computer Sciences at the University of Nottingham. Funded by UKRI EPSRC over a period of 15 years, Horizon consisted of three 5-year programmes (Horizon Digital Economy Hub 2009 – 2015, From Human Data to Personal Experience 2015 – 2021 and Trusted Data Driven Products December 2020 – December 2025).

Find out more about Horizon’s research by accessing the ‘Our Legacy’ tab, reading through our Impact Highlights brochures and watching this short video

Horizon News

28 10 .25

Gender and Robots workshop

Where: Cobot Maker Space, Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham When: 14th November, 15:30 – 17:30pm Robots […]

27 10 .25

Halfway to the Future – a Design-Focused HCI Symposium

Stuart Reeves, Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and former Transitional Assistant Professor […]

24 09 .25

Interdisciplinary expert workshop: AI and Human Rights

Horizon Research Fellow Anna Maria Piskopani organised an interdisciplinary expert workshop as part of the […]

Horizon Blog Posts

04 11 .25

The Value of Co-design for Technologies: Reflections on my research placement with the CaTS-App team

post by Lucy Hitcham (2023 cohort) *Trigger warning: Mentions of self-harm Technologies have vast potential […]

27 10 .25

Exploring the Future of Online Safety: Ellie and Hannah Help Lead Law & Technology Panel

We’re excited to share that CDT PhD candidates Ellie Colegate (2021) and Hannah Heilbuth (2022) […]

22 10 .25

Workplace Wellbeing and the Internet

The Workplace Wellbeing and the Internet (W-WATI) project ran from September 2024 to October 2025 […]