PhD Computer Science and Engineering

University of Chester

We welcome students who are interested in pursuing PhD, MRes or MPhil research degrees in the following subject areas:

• Computer Science
• Electronic and Electrical Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Project and Knowledge Management

We support a wide range of topics, with an emphasis on research that emphasises impact and outcomes, delivering positive change for the world around us. Researchers in Computer and Engineering Sciences are affiliated with one or more of the University’s Research and Knowledge Exchange Institutes: Culture and Society, Sustainability and Environment, and Health and Wellbeing, reflecting this focus.

We have a highly collegiate approach to research, with the research interests of staff falling across traditional subject discipline boundaries and across the academic-industry divide. This gives rise to exciting cross-disciplinary project areas that can make use of all the facilities of the subject areas that make up the Faculty. Projects are designed around the fundamentals underpinning science and technology necessary for progress in one or more specific industry sectors or application settings, and can involve experimental, theoretical, computational, or modelling aspects.

Current Projects

Currently, the Faculty is engaged in research that covers a wide range of topics. Examples include:

• algebra, group theory and combinatorics,
• design and manufacturing,
• data communications and networks,
• artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and ethics, human-computer interaction,
• virtual and mixed reality for game development and heritage,
• cybersecurity authentication, intrusion detection, and policy development, combinatorics and computational optimisation,
• numerical analysis applied to both stochastic and deterministic (partial) differential equations and integral equations,
• structure of models of set theory; visual analytics.