Data science and Extended Intelligence | 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

Data science and extended intelligence goes beyond efficient data infrastructure and engineering, it studies data empowered human processes that lead to smarter, fairer, more sustainable and equitable ways of living.

Our research on Artificial Intelligence technologies to facilitate citizen science learning focuses on motivating citizen action. These include technologies to support citizens’ identification of species using natural language generation to provide formative feedback, automatically generating multiple-choice quizzes to test learning, and intelligently visualising ecological data to engage citizens.

The Intelligent System and Data Science group pioneers research in Digital Humanities, Smart Cities and Robotics, and Scholarly Data Analytics. Finally, our research in Data Science and AI for scholarly communication has produced the world’s largest collection of open access research papers (CORE), and a variety of cutting edge technologies to support editorial processes at Springer Nature.

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree in a technical or appropriate social science discipline, depending on the project proposed. 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 a Doctoral Training Partnership; 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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