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Electronics, Computing or Mathematics MPhil or PhD

PhD

Online

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    2 Years

  • Online campus

    Yes

  • Delivery of study materials

    Yes

  • Support service

    Yes

  • Virtual classes

    Yes

Challenge your thinking, develop original ideas and realise your potential by completing your research degree at Derby.

Become a confident, forward-thinking specialist in your area of study
Shape your ideas under the supervision of committed, dedicated and qualified experts who are highly regarded internationally
Gain the ideal preparation for a career in academia, research and development
Study in state-of-the-art facilities
Benefit from our wide-ranging industrial and professional partnerships
Join a university with an excellent research environment and fast-growing reputation
Employable Graduates – we’re ranked 15th highest amongst all UK universities and 12th for English institutions with 96% of graduates in work or further study within six months of completing their degree: HESA 2016.

Research is an important component of academic life. It plays a major role in supporting what we teach to our students and directly helps organisations to solve real-world problems.

About this course

With the prestige of a PhD on your CV, you can progress in your present job or seek new career opportunities in a range of areas such as research and teaching in universities, industrial research centres or publicly funded bodies. You can also enter management at a senior level within industrial companies.

Applicants for research degrees should normally hold an honours degree from a UK University, or qualifications or experience which are deemed by the University to be equivalent.

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Subjects

  • Computing
  • Systems
  • Technology
  • Networks
  • GCSE Mathematics
  • Mathematics
  • Sound
  • Project
  • Electronics
  • Electrical
  • Sustainability
  • Power electronics
  • Sensor Systems

Course programme

Choose your specialism

Available research areas for study include:

Electrical and Electronics project areas
  • Renewable energy and energy sustainability
  • Embedded systems, smart systems and the Internet of Things
  • Power electronics
  • Sensor systems
  • Control systems
  • Mechatronics
Entertainment Engineering project areas
  • Live sound reinforcement system design and optimisation
  • Real-time audio digital signal processing
  • Digital signal processing for sound, music and multimedia technology
  • Electroacoustic design and analysis
  • Acoustic model development and refinement
  • Virtual bass synthesis and applications
  • Binaural sound reproduction and algorithms
  • Surround microphone array technology
  • Performance and live event technology and techniques
  • Ambisonic surround sound
  • 3D auditory displays
  • 3D audio for virtual reality
Computing project areas
  • Cloud computing, P2P and data grids
  • Data science
  • Big Data analytics/streaming analytics
  • Complex networks, network architectures and management
  • Crowd sourcing, social networks and web data analytics
  • Distributed data and collective computational intelligence
  • Multi-agents and service oriented computing
  • Resource discovery and scheduling in heterogeneous networks
  • Semantics, ontologies and conceptual structures
  • Situated, context-aware computing and smart environments
  • Trust, intrusion detection and network security
  • Security and performance in operating systems and the Internet of Things
  • Privacy and the use of personal data
  • Administrative domains and deontic logic
  • Risk and trust within digital forensics
  • Visual computing, games and serious games

Electronics, Computing or Mathematics MPhil or PhD

Price on request