Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)

SICSA will sustain and expand Scotland's research excellence in Informatics and Computer Science.

The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) is a collaboration of leading Scottish Universities. Our aim is to work together to consolidate and develop Scotland's position as an international research leader in informatics and computer science (ICS).

In Scotland, we have one of the five biggest top-quality research clusters in ICS in the world, with more than 200 world-class academic researchers. We are the foremost cluster of ICS research in the UK: about 16% of the very best research output comes from Scotland, and SICSA members hold about 20% of national ICS research funds.

SICSA's vision and activities

Our research covers virtually all areas of computer science and informatics from low-level hardware design, through networking and middleware, to wetware, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction and social informatics. We are world leaders in both theoretical and practical aspects of the discipline and have a strong interdisciplinary tradition involving maths, engineering, psychology, the humanities and the social sciences.

SICSA's four central research themes.

SICSA is funding more than 30 academic posts across Scotland from Chairs to Research Fellowships. See the SICSA appointments page for more information.

SICSA funds about 20 prize studentships per year for the best and the brightest PhD students from any country. See the Graduate Academy pages for more information.

SICSA is supported by the Scottish Funding Council, and is expanding by including world-class individuals and groups that enhance our research excellence. We currently include members at:

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