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

24 11 .25

Roundtable: Technology-facilitated gender-based violence and its impact

Join in the discussion on Technology-facilitated gender-based violence and its impact – taking place on […]

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 […]

Horizon Blog Posts

03 12 .25

Celebrating Women in STEM: Bogna’s Recent Impact Activities

Earlier this autumn, Bogna Liziniewicz (2023 cohort) had the opportunity to showcase her research and […]

03 12 .25

Reflecting on the Digital Good: Reflections from the 2025 Summer School

post by Lucy Hitcham (2023 cohort) An introduction to the Digital Good I first became […]

02 12 .25

We’re delighted to share a new blog post from Horizon CDT student Angela Higgins, who […]