Computer Science PhD, MPhil

University of Leicester

Computing at Leicester offers supervision for the degrees of:

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - full-time and part-time

Master of Philosophy (MPhil) - full-time and part-time

Supervision and research areas

We offer PhD and MPhil supervision in Computer Science in areas compatible with the research interests of our academic staff including:

Algebraic and Categorical Structures and Methods

Algorithm Design, Analysis, and Engineering

Creative Computing

Deduction, Rewriting, and Transformation

Models of Software Intensive Systems

Software Evolution

Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning

PhD description

PhD students complete an independent research project under the guidance of a supervisory team. The research is normally completed over a maximum period of 3.0-3.5 years (full-time) or 6.0-6.5 years (part-time).

A fourth year (full-time) or seventh year (part-time) or the remaining part of this can be used to prepare the thesis for examination. The thesis should not normally exceed 50,000 words and must make an original contribution to knowledge and contain work of publishable quality. The thesis must then be defended in a viva voce (oral) examination before a degree can be awarded.