Information and Communication Technology
Great Western Research is pleased to announce that the existing GWR studentship scheme is to be extended to include a 6th theme for proposals, that of Information and Communication Technology. The addition of this area to the original 5 Themes of Applied Mathematics, Creative Arts, Materials, Sustainability and Psychology is effective immediately and GWR will be accepting proposals for PhD studentship projects from HEIs and businesses in the South West, according to the well published studentship scheme rules. The ICT theme panel will be chaired by Professor Joe McGeehan, Professor of Communications Engineering at Bristol University and Director of the Toshiba Telecommunications Research Laboratory (TRL).
Given the importance of ICT in underpinning so many of the UK’s industrial and commercial sectors, together with its ability to attract considerable inward investment, it is vitally important that the South West maintains its leading edge position and consequent economic impact. The South West of England is home to one of Europe’s largest concentrations of industrial and academic expertise in ‘Information and Communications Technology’ with well over 50 significant companies active including world leaders such as HP Labs, Toshiba Corporation, Intel, Orange, Siemens, Alcatel-Lucent and MessageLabs, as well as many SMEs and medium sized high growth companies like Picochip, Apertio, Icera and Clearspeed Technologies.
Areas of potential collaboration for research studentships within the field of ICT in the South West have been identified to reflect our areas of particular strength and include:
Communications
- Wireless communication systems and networks
- Hardware and software architectures, including reconfigurable architectures
- Middleware
- Security, including cryptography, etc
- Computer mediated communication
- Silicon chip design and production including Multimedia chip design
- Signal processing (analogue and digital)
Information Technology
- Bioinformatics
- Medical informatics
- Human Computer Systems
- Autonomous Systems
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Software Systems
- Safety Critical and Dependable Systems, data storage etc
- Mobile and Pervasive Technologies
- Design, including tools, methods and environments
- Modelling
- Programming Languages and Programming Environments
- Interaction and Interface
- Evaluation and Validation Methods
- Logic and Algorithms
- Media Technologies
- Systems integration, network security