Networking and Communication Technologies | Research Degrees

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Award Award	Duration Duration	Start dates Start dates	Application Application
PhD (MPhil also available) PhD (MPhil also available)	Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years	February and October February and October	January to April January to April

Next generation (XG) technologies are characterised as being intelligent, scalable, adaptive, interoperable, reconfigurable and dependable from a variety of perspectives including safety, privacy and security. Next generation video systems for instance, will offer more views, more pixels, greater interactive functionality and increasingly multisensory experiences like augmented and virtual reality.

Similarly, XG networks like 6G technology will offer intelligent connectivity and extend mobility into new multimedia domains driven by the integration of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning towards the vision of a hyperconnected society with everyone and everything connected. This is the exciting backdrop in which the Next Generation Multimedia Technologies (XGMT) Research Group undertakes its research.

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.

UK fee UK fee	International fee International fee
Full-time: £5,006 per year Full-time: £5,006 per year	Full-time: £16,420 per year Full-time: £16,420 per year
Part-time: £2,503 per year Part-time: £2,503 per year	Part-time: £8,210 per year Part-time: £8,210 per year

Some of our research students are funded via Doctoral Training Partnership EPSRC and the STEM Faculty; others are self-funded.

For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.

To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.

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