Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
This project aims to explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) can be harnessed to continuously acquire new skills to solve novel tasks as opposed to mastering a predefined and fixed set of tasks. In particular, methods for incrementally learning skill representations jointly from textual descriptions and spatio-temporal information of action sequences will be developed and evaluated on learning visuomotor robotic tasks in a household environment.
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of engineering research with a focus on sound and vibration? Would you like to develop your skills as a researcher and kick-start a career in engineering innovation?We are offering a fully funded PhD position, with enhanced financial support from a large industrial partner, to pursue doctoral research in Smart Acoustic Control Technologies as part of a large project funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Cerebral injuries are the leading cause of neonatal mortality and life-long morbidities. The research project aims to apply an innovative technique called speckle contrast optical tomography (SCOT) with the potential to provide 3D images of cerebral blood flow in the infant brain.
This project aims to improve the making of pharmaceutical tablets by using advanced machine learning (ML), life cycle analysis (LCA), and process digital twins (PDTs). The goal is to make the production process more efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly.
Enabling integrated and free space photonics with advanced reprogrammable materials. The current increase in data generation is expected to reach unsustainable rates by the end of the decade. This has a strong impact on the environment and therefore new solutions are sought after.
Urological devices (stents and catheters) are deployed as temporary measures to restore urinary drainage in patients with kidney stones, tumours or strictures. In this PhD project, we aim to develop novel coatings to resist encrustation and biofilm formation on stents, and extend our test platform to include in vitro biological testing of microbial cell-device interactions for rapid pre-clinical testing of coating efficacy.
The development and offline testing of biometric systems (such as face and voice) relies on the presentation of a large collection of population unbiased-data. Assembling these data is often time consuming and, to be ethically valid, requires the agreement of test participants for their data to be used for research purposes.
This project, focussing on high-power laser architectures, will contribute to a major Ministry of Defence (MoD) research programme intended to develop generation-after-next-technologies for applications in defence and security.
This project will investigate the production and properties of a new class of optical metamaterials which are nanostructured on the 2 to 100 nm range by a versatile bottom-up approach utilising self-assembled lyotropic liquid crystal phases of lipids and surfactants for templating.
In this project, we aim to develop a low-cost decentralized intelligent automation technology, using a swarm of robots to automate the monitoring of our forests, allowing for a novel data stream of measurements at high spatial and temporal resolutions.