STEM Summer Research Project List

As a STEM student, we understand that disciplinary focus is often your main priority when selecting the best and most rewarding study abroad experience. We offer a range of exciting summer research projects in five great locations: Scotland, Ireland, England, and Spain. This list below highlights the range of project choices on offer, alongside their locations and their availability.

These programs are highly competitive and fill up fast. Once you decide your project preference please get your application in to us. We would recommend you also keep in mind an alternative project should your preferred option be already taken.

2023 Research Projects

All 2023 Projects have been reserved.

Atmospheric Science/Environmental Health	Atmospheric Science/Data Analysis	Atmospheric Science/ Meteorology	Bioinformatics	Biomechanics	Biology and Environmental Science/Animal Behavior
Biology/Environmental Science	Biology/Plant Genetics	Biomedical Engineering	Biological Engineering/Cell and Molecular Biology	Biomedical Engineering/Chemistry	Biological Engineering/Microbiology
Biomedical Science	Biomolecular and Biomedical Science	Cell & Molecular Biology	Chemical Engineering/Biochemistry	Chemical Engineering/Environmental Science	Chemical Engineering/Pharmacology
Chemistry	Chemistry/Biomedical Science	Civil Engineering	Computer Engineering	Computer Science	Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science/Cybersecurity	Data Science/Statistics	Endocrinology/Cell & Molecular Biology	Food Science	Genetics/Cell & Molecular Biology	Genomics
Life Science	Mechanical Engineering	Molecular Biology	Neuroscience/Cell & Molecular Biology	Organic Chemistry/Chemical Engineering	Physics
Physics/Neuroscience	Psychology

Atmospheric Science/Environmental Health

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Study of ultrafine particles in Granada urban area	Granada	Reserved
Radiative effect of atmospheric aerosols: an intercomparison of measurement techniques	Granada	Reserved
Long-term study of atmospheric air masses affecting southern Spain	Granada	Reserved

Atmospheric Science/Data Analysis

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Atmospheric particles influence on clouds: Why are those clouds there?	Granada	Reserved
What aerosols do we have in Granada and how are they changing with time?	Granada	Reserved
Atmosphere thermodynamics state studies using satellite and ground-based microwave radiometry	Granada	Reserved

Atmospheric Science/Meteorology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Can we determine the water vapor content of the atmosphere using low-cost infrared thermometers?	Granada	Reserved
Dispersion and effects of volcanic aerosols ejected into the atmosphere during Cumbre Vieja eruption in La Palma (Spain)	Granada	Reserved
Understanding ground-based NASA networks for supporting satellite missions	Granada	Reserved
Exploiting NASA’s tools for the analysis of pollution levels in pre- and post-COVID’s lockdown periods using satellite data	Granada	Reserved

Bioinformatics

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
In silico prediction of novel antimicrobial resistance factors in Klebsiella pneumoniae	Limerick	Reserved

Biomechanics

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Role of Meninges in Concussion: Mechanical and Structural Characterisation of Porcine Meninges Membrane	Limerick	Reserved

Biology and Environmental Science/Animal Behavior

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Depicting Personality Traits in Fallow Deer (Dama Dama) Fawns at Capture	Dublin	Reserved

Biology/Environmental Science

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Analysis of Biostimulants for Barley Growth and Development	Dublin	Reserved
Does the Smoothness of Concrete on Vertical Seawalls Influence Their Biodiversity	Dublin	Reserved
Exploring the Spectrum of Activity of Antibiotic Compounds Produced by Fungal Endophytes of Wild Barley Relatives	Dublin	Reserved
The Microbiome of Fungi: How Often are Bacteria Found in Close Association with Fungal Endophytes?	Dublin	Reserved

Biology/Plant Genetics

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Flower Development in Cannabis Sativa	Dublin	Reserved
Establishing Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) as a Crop for the Future	Dublin	Reserved
Biotechnology and Gene Editing for Cannabis Sativa	Dublin	Reserved

Biomedical Engineering

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Development and evaluation of robot ablation catheter system for cardiac ablation therapy	King's	Reserved
Development and evaluation of robot trans-septal puncture system	King's	Reserved
Development and evaluation of cardiac phantoms for cardiac ablation therapy simulation	King's	Reserved
Development and evaluation of a low-cost high-temperature 3D printer for PEEK	King's	Reserved
Development and evaluation of a low-cost silicone 3D printer	King's	Reserved
Denoising X-ray fluoroscopy images using deep learning	King's	Reserved
Evaluation of web-based teaching and learning of anatomy using medical imaging and 3D models	King's	Reserved
Evaluation of patient localisation using the Intel RealSense camera for robotic procedures	King's	Reserved
Repairing and reproducing skeletons using 3D printing	King's	Reserved
Robotic cardiac ultrasound scanning	King's	Reserved

Biological Engineering/Cell and Molecular Biology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Computational and experimental characterisation of a potential antimicrobial resistance factor	Limerick	Reserved

Biomedical Engineering/Chemistry

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Development of biobased quantum dots – Materials development and biocompatibility	Limerick	Reserved

Biological Engineering/Microbiology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of genetically engineered Escherichia coli knockout cells	Limerick	Reserved

Biomedical Science

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Analysis of biofilm formation by the human pathogen Campylobacter jejuni	Dublin	Reserved
Association of Gut Barrier Dysfunction in Inflammatory Bowel Disease development	Dublin	Reserved
Investigating the Role of Disease-Causing Proteins in Motor Neurons	Dublin	Reserved
Development and Characterisation of Aligned Collagen Matrices to Model Pancreatic Cancer	Dublin	Reserved
Beta-Amyloid Induced Regulation of UT-B Urea Transporters in an Astrocyte Cell Line	Dublin	Reserved

Biomolecular and Biomedical Science

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Understanding the Role of Rab33B in Smith McCort Dysplasia	Dublin	Reserved

Cell and Molecular Biology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Pure at heart: developing culture methods to increase the purity of equine endothelial cells	London	Reserved
Horse tendon injuries – do they remember inflammation?	London	Reserved
Production embryos from in vitro matured cat oocytes	London	Reserved
microRNA regulation of embryonic cell development	London	Reserved
Do extracellular vesicles in commercial goat and sheep milk modulate human immune cell function	London	Reserved
Influence of extracellular vesicles isolated from tart cherry juice dietary supplements on human monocyte inflammatory responses in vitro	London	Reserved

Chemical Engineering/Biochemistry

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Energy properties of the products of hydrothermal carbonisation of digested sludge from wastewater treatment plant	Limerick	Reserved

Chemical Engineering/Environmental Science

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Phosphor recovery from dairy factory waste products in form of fertiliser	Limerick	Reserved
Production of biobased solvents from lignocellulosic biomass	Limerick	Reserved
Recovery of phosphorus from meat and bone meal and its ashes samples regarding potential fertiliser production	Limerick	Reserved

Chemical Engineering/Pharmacology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Development of extraction, analytical and purification techniques of plant material to target phytopharmaceuticals	Limerick	Reserved

Chemistry

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Impossible Crystallisation: An Assessment of Solvent Radiolysis in Undersaturated Pharmaceutical Crystallisation	Limerick	Reserved
Phosphorus-Based Cations as Main Group Catalysts	Dublin	Reserved
Study of Molecular Probes of Non-Canonical DNA Towards New Therapeutics	Dublin	Reserved
Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Super Catalysts for Safe Hydrogen Storage	Dublin	Reserved

Chemistry/Biomedical Science

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Development of Nanoparticle-Based Therapies	Dublin	Reserved
Electrophilic Fluorination of Piperdeines and Their Use to Approach the Synthesis of Fluorofebrifugine	Dublin	Reserved

Civil Engineering

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Secondary Bending in Curved Double-Layer Gridshell Assemblies	Limerick	Reserved

Computer Engineering

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Automating Data Identification for more Forensic-Ready Smart Factories	Limerick	Reserved
Kind Computing: A New Paradigm for Integrating Kindness into Software	Limerick	Reserved
Trust and Security Provision for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles	Limerick	Reserved

Computer Science

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Metaverse for Climate Awareness	Dublin	Reserved
The Role of the Environment in Learning to Program: Exploring Educational Programming Data with the Blackbox Dataset	Dublin	Reserved
Mini Green Supercomputer: Reducing the Cost and Carbon Footprint of High Performance Computing Development	Dublin	Reserved
Computing Crossroads: A Social Computing Project to Help Improve Diversity, Equality and Success in Computer Science	Dublin	Reserved
Explaining the Unexplainable: A Web App to Explain Java Error Messages	Dublin	Reserved
Understanding Earth Observation Events Using an IoT-enabled Sensor Bed and Machine Learning Models	Dublin	Reserved
Federated Learning-based Secure Edge AI Platform Robust to Privacy Attacks	Dublin	Reserved

Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Exploring Sense of Belonging in Undergraduate Computing Students	Dublin	Reserved
Developing a prototyping XAI-enabled web interface for the classification of metabolic syndrome	Dublin	Reserved
An XAI-enabled Web Interface for pediatric EEG Analysis	Dublin	Reserved
Making Conversation to Make Better Decisions	Dublin	Reserved
Implementing Ethical Preferences for Human-Centric AI	Dublin	Reserved

Computer Science/Cybersecurity

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Data Privacy and Security in U.S.-EU data transfer	Limerick	Reserved
Intrusion Detection and Prevention for Smart Home Networks	Limerick	Reserved
Learn about cybersecurity using ‘Cyber Range’	Limerick	Reserved
Mitigating Cyber threats in healthcare using MITRE ATT&CK Framework	Limerick	Reserved
Protecting Genomic data using Cyber Standards	Limerick	Reserved
Security of legacy medical devices	Limerick	Reserved

Data Science/Statistics

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Neural Network Model Selection	Limerick	Reserved

Endocrinology/Cell & Molecular Biology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Investigating the interplay between cardiovascular risk factors (diabetes and disturbed flow) on endothelial cell dysfunction	London	Reserved
New Roles of Metabolic Hormones in Inflammation	London	Reserved
Characterising vascular changes in the high-fat, high-sugar diet (HFSD) fed mouse model of pre-diabetes	London	Reserved

Food Science

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
New natural sweeteners' effects on microbial communication (quorum sensing)	Limerick	Reserved
Purification of green extracts from food by-products to obtain bioactive-rich ingredients	Limerick	Reserved
The anti-thrombotic properties of dairy lipids	Limerick	Reserved

Genetics/Cell & Molecular Biology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
The genetic contribution to fracture risk in Thoroughbreds	London	Reserved

Genomics

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Application of Deep Learning to detect potentially novel exons/transcript structures in genomic sequences	Limerick	Reserved

Life Science

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Bacteria in Freshwater: A Historical Record of Past Pollution?	Glasgow	Reserved
Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism for Genetic Screens	Glasgow	Reserved
Genetic engineering for agriculture in a changing climate	Glasgow	Reserved
Mesophiles and Thermophiles in the Urban Environment	Glasgow	Reserved

Mechanical Engineering

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Design and development of motorcycle impact protection using 3D printing with controlled internal structures	Limerick	Reserved
Development of a digital twin for a metal-bending manufacturing operation	Limerick	Reserved
Real-time signal processing and feature extraction of robotic drilling process	Limerick	Reserved

Molecular Biology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Targeted RNA Extraction from Probiotic Bacteria	Dublin	Reserved
Purification of Extracellular Vesicles from Probiotic Bacteria	Dublin	Reserved
Preparation of RNA Nanoparticles	Dublin	Reserved
Optimizing Primer Selection for Detecting Bacteria Associated with Diverse Fungal Isolates	Dublin	Reserved

Neuroscience/Cell & Molecular Biology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Protecting mitochondrial fusion for neonatal neuroprotection after brain injury	London	Reserved
Does sigma1 receptor activation reduce microglial activity in the zebrafish model of Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (CLN2 disease)?	London	Reserved
Understanding the mechanisms of trace metal toxicity during brain development using in vitro model systems	Limerick	Reserved

Organic Chemistry/Chemical Engineering

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Chemical Synthesis of Drug-Like Building Blocks Using Continuous Flow Reactors	Dublin	Reserved

Physics

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Physics of Collective Behavior	Dublin	Reserved
Biomedical Assays Using Green Technology	Dublin	Reserved
Advanced Models of Bio-Nano Interactions	Dublin	Reserved

Physics/Neuroscience

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Investigating a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease	Dublin	Reserved

Psychology

PROJECT NAME	LOCATION	PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Exploring the Use of VR for Enhancing Learning	Glasgow	Reserved
Disgust Sensitivity and Mental Health Stigma	Glasgow	Reserved
Sensory Perception and Neurodiversity	Glasgow	Reserved