Based on the submission of a thesis followed by a viva voce examination. Application Process Application form available from the registry or our website. If possible you will be asked for interview to discuss projects and funding for your course. The school has an active, exciting, industrially orientated research programme with a turnover of approximately 8m per annum. Doctoral and Masters researchers are either involved in the main-stream industrial research programmes or are investigating the basic scientific ideas to enable future developments to occur.
All projects have significant industrial involvement.
The school currently has 180 research students and the main fields of study listed below give an idea of the research areas in which we are active. Research programme structure Research students are normally associated with a group of scientists and engineers engaged on work in the same general area. This team includes the academic supervisor, members of the academic staff, members of the research staff, technicians and other research students. The wide expertise within these teams enables industrial problems to be tackled by people with different backgrounds, which gives a flexible basis for research and development work. Each student is assigned an academic supervisor who is responsible to the director of studies for the student's progress.