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: Australia, 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.
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Understanding colour perception in coral reef fish | Brisbane | Reserved |
| Behavioural predictors of broiler health and welfare | London | Open |
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| Manufacture of a Composite Nose Cone for a Formula Student Car | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Finite Element Modelling of Quenching Aluminium Alloys to Account for Thermal Fluid Interaction | Limerick | Open |
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| Hunting for massive black holes in globular clusters | Brisbane | Open |
| Modelling the structures observed in Protoplanetary Disks | Brisbane | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Influence of Anthropogenic Pollution in Clouds Formation | Granada | Open |
| Statistical Analysis of Clouds Properties During a Radar Campaign | Granada | Open |
| What are the Effects on Global and Diffuse Shortwave Solar Irradiances During 10 Years of Desert Dust Episodes Over Southeastern Iberian Peninsula? | Granada | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Breast Cancer projects | Aberdeen | Reserved |
| Immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes | Brisbane | Reserved |
| Novel approaches for preparation of targeted nanoparticles for autoimmune diseases | Brisbane | Reserved |
| The role of outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) and their potential as vaccine candidates | Dublin | Reserved |
| Circulating extracellular vesicles in the very premature infant | Dublin | Reserved |
| Genotypic and Phenotypic Characterisation of freshly isolated strains of Campylobacter jejuni | Dublin | Reserved |
| Physiological regulation of human urea transporters | Dublin | Reserved |
| Association of Gut Barrier Dysfunction with the Microbiome in Colorectal Cancer | Dublin | Reserved |
| Activating AMPK for the treatment of DMD | London | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Flow sensing on the wing for insect flight control | London | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Breast Cancer projects | Aberdeen | Reserved |
| Determining the potential of natural projects to induce cytotoxicity in human cancer cells | Aberdeen | Reserved |
| Novel immunotherapy targets in B cell lymphoma | Brisbane | Reserved |
| Role of GHR-mediated signalling in melanoma | Brisbane | Reserved |
| Does hypoxia trigger cancer cell transdifferentiation in some glioblastoma cells? | London | Reserved |
| Do some bile duct cells in Cholangiocarcinoma transdifferentiate into other cell types? | London | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Mobile Immersive VR exploration of the HCI possibilities | Dublin | Reserved |
| Exploring Educational Programming Data in the Blackbox Dataset | Dublin | Reserved |
| What you see is not what you get: spatial audio and the McGuirk effect | Dublin | Reserved |
| miRTarPred – microRNA Target Prediction | Dublin | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Living at the front | Dublin | Reserved |
| Depicting personality traits in fallow deer (Dama dama) fawns at capture | Dublin | Reserved |
| Human-deer interactions in the Phoenix Park, Dublin: a study aimed at creating a wildlife management model | Dublin | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| How do endocrine disrupting chemicals contribute to pituitary tumour development? | London | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Supervolcanoes: the Phlegraean Fields of central Italy | Glasgow | Open |
| Cryovolcanoes: the volcanoes of the outer solar system | Glasgow | Open |
| The big volcanoes of Scotland: Ben Nevis | Glasgow | Open |
| The big volcanoes of Scotland: Glen Coe | Glasgow | Open |
| Monogenetic volcanoes in our Solar System | Glasgow | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Can extracellular vesicles isolated from cows milk affect human immune cell responses in vitro | London | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Mesophiles and Thermophiles in the Urban Environment | Glasgow | Reserved |
| Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism for Genetic Screens | Glasgow | Reserved |
| Viruses and Bacteria in Freshwater: A Historical Record of Past Pollution? | Glasgow | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Computer Aided Motion Analysis of the Electric Vehicle using Solidworks | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | Location | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Determining the potential of natural projects to induce cytotoxicity in human cancer cells | Aberdeen | Reserved |
| Bacterial pathogens as a cause of infections | Aberdeen | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Accelerometry based activity and behavior monitoring in dogs | London | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | Location | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Study of a new receptor target for brain disease | Aberdeen | Reserved |
| The effects of trauma-induced neuroinflammation on Alzheimer’s disease-related pathology | Dublin | Reserved |
| Investigating the role of disease-causing proteins in motor neuron function | Dublin | Reserved |
| Investigation of Cannabidiol on synaptic excitability in hippocampal slices | Dublin | Reserved |
| Perineuronal net development in a model of preterm brain injury | London | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Determining the potential of natural projects to induce cytotoxicity in human cancer cells | Aberdeen | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Coupled modes in whispering-gallery resonators | Brisbane | Reserved |
| Negative Refraction in Natural Hyperbolic Media | Glasgow | Open |
| Measuring ratios of cross sections for photon/Z +jet processes at the LHC | Glasgow | Open |
| Understanding the impact of weak lensing on gravitational-wave cosmology | Glasgow | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| The effect of environmental factors on oocyte maturation and development | London | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| What activities from science coursework develop employability? The student perspective. | Brisbane | Reserved |
| The Underlying Mathematical Framework in the Architectural Process of Christopher Alexander | Limerick | Open |
| Playground Science for School Teachers | Limerick | Open |
| Paper Folding Axiomatics | Limerick | Open |