40 Studentships for PhD study in the School of Informatics - University of Edinburgh
40 Studentships for PhD study in the School of Informatics
Forty research studentships are available for:
- UK students
- EU students
- students worldwide
Many of these are full studentships, paying your tuition fees and astipend of £12000 to cover living expenses in your first year,rising in second and third years. The rest pay your fees and acontribution of £6000 per year towards living expenses. Paymentof fees for non-EU students is subject to successful competition foranOverseas Research Studentship.PhD students are encouraged to makecontributions to teaching, for example by leading tutorial groups, andfor this you can expect to earn an additional £500-1000 per year.
These studentships are funded from a variety of sources. New thisyear are five full studentships in the Schools of Informatics andEngineering & Electronics funded byWolfson Microelectronics plc.Also new are Principal's Scholarships; these are prestigious prizesawarded to a few of the most promising new PhD students each year,which provide an extra £2000 per year for living costs on top ofany other funding that is offered.
Informatics
Informaticsis the study of information and computation, in bothnatural and engineered systems. It comprises a vast range ofscientific and engineering endeavour and has enormous economic andsocial impact.
Edinburgh University's School of Informaticsbrings together the formerDepartments of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and ComputerScience, together with the Artificial Intelligence ApplicationsInstitute. The School possesses a combination of breadth andstrength unparallelled elsewhere in the UK and competitive world-wide;as an intellectual endeavour it is strikingly original.
The School is the only university grouping in the UK to haveachieved the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the UK government's2001 Research Assessment Exercise round, and it is the UK's biggestresearch group in this area. We currently have around 215 studentsstudying for PhD, and around 150 for MSc.
PhD study
PhD study is carried out within one of our six research Institutes:
- ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
- CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
- ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
- ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
- IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
- LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
ANC fosters the study of adaptive processes in both artificial andbiological systems; two themes are the study of artificial learningsystems and the analysis and modelling of brain processes. CISAundertakes basic and applied research and development in knowledgerepresentation and reasoning. Through its applications institute AIAI,it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with thisresearch. ICCS pursues basic research into the nature ofcommunication among humans and between humans and machines, usingtext, speech and graphics, and the design of interactive dialoguesystems, using computational and algorithmic approaches.
ICSA seeks development of a better understanding of systemscomponents, both hardware and software, and their integration andinteraction; this involves not only improving their raw performanceand cost-effectiveness, but also making them more connectable andinteroperable, more reliable, more usable and more applicable. Theinterests of IPAB are how to link computational perception,representation, transformation and generation processes to externalworlds—whether real or virtual. The mission of LFCS is to achieve afoundational understanding of problems and issues arising incomputation and communication through the development of appropriateand applicable formal models and mathematical theories.
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