Computing

The University of Brighton has an international reputation for research in Computing, notably in areas of security systems, heritage technologies, Vetronics (Vehicle Electronics), user-experience and natural language generation.

Our supervisors across the broad scope of PhD Computing Computing include world-leading experts in their subject areas with extensive track records in PhD supervision. The University of Brighton University of Brighton provides a comprehensive training scheme to support all postgraduate students.

Key facts

• benefit from a supervisory team comprising two or sometimes three members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional supervisor from another school, another research institution, or an external partner from government or industry.

• be provided with desk space and access to a desktop PC, either in one of the postgraduate offices on the 6th floor of the award-winning Cockcroft Building, or within the adjacent Huxley Building.

• benefit from access to a range of electronic resources via the University’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries.

• be able to use various state-of-the-art research facilities on the Moulsecoomb site.

Our research themes include:

• 3D and 2D visualisation and digitisation

• Applied data analytics methods for image, text and structured numerical data

• Diagrammatic visualisation, logics and reasoning

• Knowledge engineering

• Natural language generation

• Security, privacy, and trust engineering

• Text analytics

• User experience