EPSRC PhD Studentship
Duration: 3 years
Starting date: October 2009 or February 2010
Annual Bursary: £13,200
Closing Date for Applications: Monday 18 May 2009
City University’s School of Informatics undertakes world-class research in strategic areas that include software and requirements engineering, artificial intelligence, geographic information systems, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, medical informatics, dependability and security.
The School is inviting applications for a full-time, three year PhD studentship to start in either October 2009 or February 2010. Applications are welcomed from candidates wishing to undertake research in any of the above areas. The successful applicant will receive a bursary for each year of the studentship (£13,200 in 2009-2010), in addition to payment of the tuition fees. Successful candidates will usually be expected to undertake some teaching support, by agreement with the School.
Candidates must have at least a 2.i Honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject and be able to demonstrate a relevant connection with the UK (usually established by being ordinarily resident for a period of 3 years immediately prior to the date of application).
Applications should be made on the PhD application form and must be accompanied
by a research proposal. The application form can be downloaded
or obtained from Robin Syred. Please state on the form
that you wish to be considered for the EPSRC studentship. The research proposal
is an important part of the application and will be considered during the selection
process. The proposal (maximum 2 sides of A4 plus references) should include:
- abstract
- clearly set out research objectives
- the methodology to be used in the research
- abrief review of relevant research literature and an indication of what the
proposed research would contribute
- why you wish to pursue the topic and what you will bring to it
Applicants are encouraged to discuss their application with one of our Senior Tutors for Research in advance of submitting an application and general enquiries may be directed to Andy MacFarlane. Please have a look at our PhD pages for full details on PhD study in the School of Informatics and the application process.
Completed applications must be received by Robin Syred at the School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, by 5pm on the closing date of Monday 18 May.
Areas of Research
We welcome applications from candidates wishing to undertake research in any of the following areas:SOFTWARE AND REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
Service centric systems; creativity in design; ubiquitous design tools; scenario-driven software engineering; creative requirements and software design; ubiquitous requirements engineering; business process management systems
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Effective rule extraction from neural networks; applications of artificial intelligence to computer games; animal-based reinforcement learning; formal framework of co-ordination in open multi-agent normative systems; nature-Inspired optimisation and evolutionary computation
MUSIC INFORMATICS
Computational models of music analysis, music generation and music performance; music data mining; statistical models of music; music genre classification; computational musicology; music knowledge representation; features of symbolic and audio music data, pattern discovery and music e-learning
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Interactive maps for information access; using geographic information to model ethnophysiographic representations of landscapes; representing and analysing mobile phone trajectories in 4D space-time
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Music information retrieval, disabilities and interactive search; mobile search; combinatorial optimization and information retrieval; context and information retrieval; relevance feedback; user studies in information retrieval; information retrieval for specific domains: e.g. legal
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
Accessibility and user diversity; social computing; technology-enhanced learning and usability; collaborative work in healthcare and other socio-technical systems; usability evaluation; creativity
MEDICAL INFORMATICS & DIGITAL INFORMATION IN HEALTHCARE
Wearable computers in patient monitoring; blood tracking with RFID tags; web-based management of chronic diseases; modelling of blood flow in cardiac surgery; digital information use by health professionals; internet digital libraries
SYSTEMS DEPENDABILITY (reliability, safety, security)
Dependability in socio-technical systems; quantitative (empirical and analytical) dependability assessment; fault tolerance and diversity for dependability; safety cases and argumentation for confidence; quantitative modeling of security
More on our research is available at www.soi.city.ac.uk/research/index.html