After examinations, an individual research project can be
undertaken full-time by the students who qualify to do so. The
Individual Project is carried out under the supervision of a member
of the academic staff that students are invited to contact as early
as possible to supervise their work. Students may wish to
complement the foundational material of the first two terms with
practical, applied work during the project. It is possible to
involve informal collaboration with other organisations, subject to
previous approval of the project supervisor.
The individual project will lead to submission of a dissertation
where the original elements of the student research are described.
Projects can involve a number of activities that range from
substantial programming to purely theoretical research. In any
case, projects must be at postgraduate level; they are expected to
contain some element of original work and cannot simply be a review
of literature.
