The Scholarship

• Full-time postgraduate research tuition fees at Standard UK Rates. The standard full-time tuition fee for postgraduate research students from Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Great Britain for 2024-25 was £4,786 and will normally be subject to a small inflationary uplift for 2025-26. Full details on fees can be found here.
• A maintenance award at the Research Councils' UK national rate
• Research Training and Expenses
• Three year studentships are available

Eligibility

Scholarships covering full tuition fees and stipend are available to UK and Republic of Ireland students.

A limited number of international scholarships may be available for truly exceptional proposals.

Project Priority Themes

Artificial Intelligence, Social Justice and Public Decision-Making

• Algorithmic accountability: Public control of AI decision-making
• Legal and social-legal challenges around new technology
• AI and Humans: Reckoning and Judgement
• Fairness in Exploratory Data Analytics: The agency shift from humans to AI

Science, Governability and Society

• Robotic eyes on the sky and on earth
• ML-enhanced quantum information processing
• Numerically Robust and Reproducible Deep Learning
• Algorithmic security: Distributed Agency, Responsibility, and Governability

To view all the current research proposals, please visit the Projects section.