Computer Science and Information Systems (MPhil / PhD)

PhD

In London

£ 4,407 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

An MPhil/PhD is an advanced postgraduate research degree that requires original research and the submission of a substantial dissertation of 60,000 to 100,000 words. At Birkbeck, you are initially registered on an MPhil and you upgrade to a PhD after satisfactory progress in the first year or two, and if it seems likely that your thesis will contain significant original work. You need to find a suitable academic supervisor at Birkbeck, who can offer the requisite expertise to guide and support you through your research. Find out more about undertaking a research degree at Birkbeck.

Students who successfully complete this MPhil or PhD degree will have gained expert knowledge in their chosen research area and the ability to perform research-led activities in a broader context. In addition, students who successfully complete the PhD degree will have gained the ability to identify and solve complex problems arising in their chosen research area, and will have made a substantial original contribution to this area.

In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF), more than 75% of our research outputs in Computer Science were ranked world-leading or internationally excellent. Our research focuses on data science, theoretical computer science, algorithms, internet of things, data mining and machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, logic and artificial intelligence, semantic web technologies, search engines, mobile and ubiquitous computing, computer vision, bio-inspired computing and social networks.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
A Master's or upper second-class degree in computer science.

INTERNATIONAL ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, our usual requirement is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 6.5, with not less than 6.0 in each of the sub-tests.

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Subjects

  • Information Systems
  • Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Mining
  • Networks
  • Internet
  • Algorithms
  • Logic
  • Web
  • Systems
  • Professor Training
  • Computational

Course programme

OUR RESEARCH CULTURE

The Department has major research collaborations with the neighbouring UCL Institute of Education and with the Birkbeck Department of Psychological Sciences. Together with the UCL Institute of Education, we are exploring how digital technologies and new media are shaping the future of knowledge and learning, while our collaboration with the Department of Psychological Sciences, in the Centre for Cognition, Computation and Modelling (CCCM), focuses on connectionist modelling, symbolic modelling, cognitive architectures, and computational modelling for the study of human behaviour and cognition.

Our academic staff serve on numerous journal editorial boards and conference programme committees.

Study resources include a course on research methods for computer science and information systems, regular research seminars and extensive computing facilities. The Department provides assistance with funding for you to attend conferences where you are presenting your research, and you are also encouraged to attend generic research training courses.

Full-time students are expected to provide lab supervision, tutorial help and marking of coursework on the Department's taught courses for up to five hours a week as part of their training. This is remunerated at the current College rate. You must have an active, up-to-date web page on the Department's website, including contact details, a description of your area of research and a publications list.

As a research student, you will have 24-hour access to servers and networked PCs running a range of language compilers, database, data mining and other specialist software, and the College library subscribes to major digital library resources in computer science.

Additional information

FEES

Part-time home/EU students: £2338 pa
Full-time home/EU students: £4407 pa
Part-time international students: £6525 pa
Full-time international students: £12925 pa

Computer Science and Information Systems (MPhil / PhD)

£ 4,407 VAT inc.