Grand Challenges
Printer-friendly versionIn our interconnected world, the great scientific questions can no longer be contained within disciplinary boundaries. The UK Research Councils have identified seven Grand Challenges – vital research priorities that demand an interdisciplinary effort.
The connections between these Grand Challenges and the Research Themes of the e-Science Institute are shown below.
Global Uncertainties
- Communicating the e-Science of Climate Change
- Trust and Security in Virtual Communities
- Spatial Semantics for Automating Geographic Information Processes
Digital Economy
- The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users
- Principles of Provenance
- Trust and Security in Virtual Communities
- e-Science in the Arts and Humanities
- Distributed Programming Abstractions
- Adoption of e-Research Technologies
- Information Services for Smart Decision Making
- Exploiting Diverse Sources of Scientific Data
Environmental Change
- Modelling and Microbiology: using computational methods to understand how biological cells survive, proliferate and evolve
- Communicating the e-Science of Climate Change
- Spatial Semantics for Automating Geographic Information Processes
Aging and Health
- Modelling and Microbiology: using computational methods to understand how biological cells survive, proliferate and evolve
- Automated Experimentation
- Neuroinformatics and Grid Techniques to Build a Virtual Fly Brain