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The Centre for Electronic Commerce Research and Development (CEC R&D) is based at the award-winning St. Peter's riverside campus of the University of Sunderland

Supported mainly by external research funding, we conduct research and development work into a wide range of ecommerce topics. We have extensive links within the University to the School of Computing and Technology , the Graduate Research School and the Business School . Our current office is in the School of Arts, Design and Media .

With an proven track record of applied research in electronic commerce, we have established strong links with partners from industry, commerce and the public sector, and over the past few years we have worked with 73 project partners on a total of 16 research and development projects.

We are currently a partner in one R&D project, SILAE. In addition to our project work, we also offer support and advice to SMEs in the North East of England regarding the e-commerce opportunities available to them.

We work with a number of leading edge technologies such as XML, Macromedia ColdFusion, Active Server Pages, and large-scale database management systems such as Oracle.