The University of West London

Reflecting our geographic location in the Thames Valley, and its proximity to the centre of the UK IT industry, the School of Computing and Technology maintains active collaboration with a range of public and private organisations in the UK and abroad.

By doing so we seek to enhance research, knowledge transfer, consultancy and training within the 'M4 IT corridor', nationally and internationally.

We are the only university in the UK that has partnered with Hewlett-Packard (HP) Ltd in providing the FdSc in Computer Systems Management that is offered at University of West London and in colleges across England. See the part-time courses page for details.

We are a CISCO Regional Academy and integrate CISCO CCNA qualifications in our FdSc and CPPD programmes.

We manage knowledge transfer projects with Siemens and ARC Technology Ltd. Our researchers have been involved with the definition of UML and the development of commercial modelling tools used by International Banks and Aerospace companies. We have experience of working with industry; staff have worked with companies including British Aerospace Systems and IBM.

Our research projects have been funded by bodies such as the EU’s Asia ITC programme, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research council (EPSRC), the UK’s Joint Information Systems committee (JISC). In externally funded research projects we work in collaboration with prestigious universities across the world including University of Nairobe, University of Uppsala (Sweden), University of Limerick (Ireland), Dalian Maritime University (China) and Indian Institute of Technology (India). We work with the British Computer Society and in projects with the Computer Society of India and China’s Software and Integrated Circuit Platform (CSIP)