Fully-funded PhD Studentships in Digital Technologies

Institute for Digital Technologies

Loughborough University

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The Institute for Digital Technologies at Loughborough University London provides exciting research opportunities for postgraduates. Our PhD students are linked to major companies, have access to extensive research and computing facilities, and participate in large scale international collaborative projects, providing them with an unforgettable research experience.
Everything we do as humans in the 21st Century, from relaxing to socialising, and from working to travelling, requires a relationship with digital technology. The Institute for Digital Technologies offers research and teaching excellence, across all major areas of digital technologies, including interactive 3D media, advanced 5G systems, big multi-media data, smart living and cybersecurity.
Loughborough University London is offering a number of fully-funded studentships within the Institute of Digital Technologies in the following key areas:
• Audio Visual Signal Processing
• Active Noise Control
• 5G Mobile Communication Systems
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Smart Environment
• Autonomous Systems
• Big Data Analytics and Visualisation
• Cyber Security
The studentships include the full cost of tuition fees for the duration of your 3-year programme, as well as a tax-free stipend of £16,296 (inclusive of London weighting) for UK, EU and International students. The stipend will be paid in monthly instalments for the duration of your PhD.
The Institute for Digital Technologies will allocate 3 studentships to UK/EU applicants and 2 studentships to international applicants.
Research
Loughborough University London offers a passionate and creative research community, with unrivalled access to organisations across a broad range of industries and sectors, to ensure your research is informed by real-life challenges and driven by true industry pressures.
Loughborough University is one of the country’s leading institutions for research excellence and productivity. In the latest Research Excellence Framework, Loughborough was ranked 14th in the UK for research intensity, and has been awarded seven Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for the quality of its research.
Location
Loughborough University London is located on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, within a new innovation quarter known as Here East. Overlooking the Lee Navigation Canal in the north west of the Olympic Park and surrounded by unrivalled green space, Here East was developed from the former Press and Broadcast Centers hosting the world’s media during the London 2012 Games. Now the site is a hub for the UK’s thriving creative and digital industries.
Loughborough University London is ideally located, with easy and affordable transport connections to and from central London, the UK and various European destinations

Funding information

Funding applies to:

Open to applicants from a range of countries

Contacts and how to apply

Academic contact:

For informal enquiries, please contact Bryony Stewart-Seume on B.Stewart-Seume@lboro.ac.uk

Administrative contact and how to apply:

If you are interested in research and would like to join a passionate and forward-thinking research community on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, please visit our website for details on how to apply http://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/research/phd-studentships/
Applications will be reviewed periodically until positions are filled. Early application is therefore strongly encouraged.

Application deadline:

10 June 2016