To share our activity, progress and successes
Welcome to the Horizon CDT student blogsite. We hope you enjoy reading about our thoughts and experiences of being a Horizon CDT PhD student and would welcome your comments and feedback.
Please take a look at our Research Highlights page which provides an overview of all student cohorts backdating to 2011.
The Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Creating Our Lives in Data is based at the University of Nottingham and is supported by a multi million pound investment from UK Research and Innovation, University of Nottingham and over 40 industry partners. The CDT focuses on digital identity, personal data and data creativity within the global digital economy, and is affiliated with the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute.
post by Bogna Liziniewicz (2023 cohort) I have landed, I text my supervision team on Slack, hoping none of them will see it before Monday. It’s Saturday evening in Zurich, Switzerland and between wondering whether I remember just enough German to get by, and hoping my suitcase made it from London alongside me, I gratefully …
post by Bogna Liziniewicz (2023 cohort) Traces of snow welcome me in Scotland. I am surprised to see so many trees, too – actual woodlands covering the hills the train passes by, ascending further north. It is my first time visiting, a surprising coincidence, given that I did my undergraduate degree just eighty miles (or …
post by Iris Jestin (2023 cohort A couple months back marked the end of my brilliant seven-month optional placement with the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT). The internship ran from September 2025 to the end of March 2026, with the last two weeks based at their London office, a few streets away from Downing Street. …
Continue reading “What Do UK Policymakers Have To Say About Driver Monitoring Systems?”
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Jubilee campus was opened by Her Majesty the Queen in 1999 and now extends to 65 acres. Located just one mile from University Park it has a wide range of teaching and leisure facilities, including a state of the art fitness centre.
More information on the campus can be found on the University of Nottingham website: Campus and Facilities and Transport links.