Why undertake a PhD
with the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University?
We are a
leading computing department in Wales and one of the major UK departments, both
for research and for teaching. We intend to build on our past achievements, to
become one of the leading departments at international level.
We believe
that collaboration in research is essential and we collaborate with industry,
with government, and with other academic institutions, at a national and
international level. Our industrial collaborators include Qinetiq, Ford, Jaguar
Cars, Unilever, Daimler Benz, Integral Solutions Ltd., Costain, Glaxo, and the NHS.
Aberystwyth
University has a proud tradition of research excellence, as demonstrated in the
most recent Research Excellence Framework assessment (REF 2014), which placed
the university in the top 50 institutions for research power and intensity. In this
Research Excellence Framework assessment, the Department of Computer Science
was ranked 11th in the UK for research intensity with 100% of its research
deemed either world-leading or internationally excellent in terms of research
impact.
Our
postgraduate research students work alongside lecturers and research associates
in a lively and well-integrated research community. Members of staff are always happy
to discuss possible MPhil and PhD research programmes with suitably qualified
graduates. Research should normally be related to one of the main areas of
research of the Department. Grants from Research Councils and other sources
(e.g., the University and the Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Computer
Science) may be available through the Department.
Research Groups
Our
principal research groups are:
·
The Advanced Reasoning group,
which is well known for its ground-breaking work on automated diagnosis and
failure analysis, and its world-leading approaches for knowledge model
formulation, optimisation and simplification.
·
The Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology group, which conducts research in areas such as
data analysis of large scale biological data, formalisation of biological data,
biomedical informatics, genetics, pharmacogenomics and systems biology.
·
The Intelligent Robotics group, which is one of the largest and
best-known robotics groups in the UK, and is involved in both national and
international research consortia from novel computational models to space
missions to Mars. It focuses on both
software and hardware issues that are key to "unconstrained
environments''.
·
The
Vision, Graphics and
Visualisation group,which
focuses on (medical) image analysis and understanding; extraction of the
structure of complex objects; appearance-based methods to provide mobile robots
with various capabilities including topological mapping and pose stabilisation;
and analysis of multi-spectral satellite data for environmental purposes.
We also
have considerable and widely recognised expertise in Software Engineering and
Network Technology.
To apply
for a place on the PhD programme you will need to prepare a research proposal,
personal statement, complete an application form and provide two references.
Please see the How to Apply
pages for more detail.
English Language Requirements:
If you
have a Bachelor’s degree from a UK University, you do not need to take an
English proficiency test.
Non-native
English speakers who do not meet this requirement must take a
University-recognised test of academic English language proficiency. For
further information please see our English
Language requirements page.
Course
Fees:
Please
see the tuition
fee pages for current tuition fees. Please note that all fees are
subject to an annual increase.
Funding:
Grants
from Research Councils and other sources may be available through the
Department: please contact us to discuss this.Studentships are also
available through the AberDoc
PhD Scholarship and Overseas Scholarship competitions. For further information on possible funding,
please see our funding
calculator.
Contact
To discuss
possible research projects, please email the Department with a brief CV at cs-pg-admissions@aber.ac.uk
For more
information on the application process, please contact the Postgraduate
Admissions Office at pg-admissions@aber.ac.uk or +44 (0) 1970 622270.
We are
committed to offering courses that prepare you for your professional or
academic career; we believe that such courses must combine a sound education in
the theoretical and practical aspects of the discipline with the development of
lasting personal skills, so that you will have the adaptability to thrive in a
world of constantly changing technology.
