The Research Student Division of the ITRI (Information Technology Research Institute) is one of four within the Faculty of Science and Engineering of the University of Brighton. The range of expertise and current active research in the ITRI covers specifically language engineering and computational linguistics. More information on research areas of ITRI can be found here.

The Institute offers a unique environment for pursuing an academic apprenticeship. Our students are all provided with a broad-based learning experience that is not confined to fulfilling the requirements for a PhD or MPhil. Our students are part of a vibrant research environment in which they contribute to the major funded research projects as well as working towards their own dissertations. Students at the ITRI are thus given exceptional opportunities to advance their research careers by being involved in major, often international, projects, meeting internationally renowned researchers both visiting the Institute and attending outside workshops and conferences. Students are encouraged to present their work both internally and externally by means of oral presentations and written papers. Recently, we have started organizing joint Research Student workshops with our colleagues at the Natural Language and Computational Linguistics group (NLCL) at the University of Sussex, also in Brighton. Furthermore, there are ongoing colloborations (between individual reseachers and in joint projects) with the NLCL group and we regularly attend each other's seminars.

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As well as the intellectual attractions the Institute itself offers, students are well catered for in the Brighton and Hove area. With two major Universities as well as numerous smaller colleges, there is a significant student body in the area. There is lively nightlife, including student-run bars and clubs, and we are only 50 mins by train from London.

As in most British universities, research degrees at the University of Brighton are dissertation-based, with little (if any) formal coursework. We expect our students to submit their thesis for examination within 3-years for a PhD and 2-years for an MPhil. We also offer a NewRoutPhD in Computer Science which includes a substantial training and taught part. Our NewRoutPhD takes 4 years to complete.

We organise weekly research seminars, with invited presentations from industry, research institutes and universities, both nationally and internationally, and host visiting researchers from universities worldwide. Each of these provides opportunities for students to meet and discuss their work with internationally known researchers.

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