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.
Additional projects will be added as they are confirmed. You may review 2022 projects for an idea of the types of research project that are still to come.
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| 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 | Open |
| 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 | Open |
| Atmosphere thermodynamics state studies using satellite and ground-based microwave radiometry | Granada | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| In silico prediction of novel antimicrobial resistance factors in Klebsiella pneumoniae | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Role of Meninges in Concussion: Mechanical and Structural Characterisation of Porcine Meninges Membrane | Limerick | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Depicting Personality Traits in Fallow Deer (Dama Dama) Fawns at Capture | Dublin | Reserved |
| 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 |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Computational and experimental characterisation of a potential antimicrobial resistance factor | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Development of biobased quantum dots – Materials development and biocompatibility | Limerick | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of genetically engineered Escherichia coli knockout cells | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
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| 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 |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Understanding the Role of Rab33B in Smith McCort Dysplasia | Dublin | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Energy properties of the products of hydrothermal carbonisation of digested sludge from wastewater treatment plant | Limerick | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Phosphor recovery from dairy factory waste products in form of fertiliser | Limerick | Open |
| Production of biobased solvents from lignocellulosic biomass | Limerick | Open |
| Recovery of phosphorus from meat and bone meal and its ashes samples regarding potential fertiliser production | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Development of extraction, analytical and purification techniques of plant material to target phytopharmaceuticals | Limerick | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Impossible Crystallisation: An Assessment of Solvent Radiolysis in Undersaturated Pharmaceutical Crystallisation | Limerick | Open |
| 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 |
| 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 | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Secondary Bending in Curved Double-Layer Gridshell Assemblies | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Automating Data Identification for more Forensic-Ready Smart Factories | Limerick | Open |
| Kind Computing: A New Paradigm for Integrating Kindness into Software | Limerick | Open |
| Trust and Security Provision for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Exploring Sense of Belonging in Undergraduate Computing Students | Dublin | Open |
| Developing a prototyping XAI-enabled web interface for the classification of metabolic syndrome | Dublin | Open |
| An XAI-enabled Web Interface for pediatric EEG Analysis | Dublin | Open |
| Making Conversation to Make Better Decisions | Dublin | Reserved |
| Implementing Ethical Preferences for Human-Centric AI | Dublin | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Data Privacy and Security in U.S.-EU data transfer | Limerick | Open |
| Intrusion Detection and Prevention for Smart Home Networks | Limerick | Open |
| Learn about cybersecurity using ‘Cyber Range’ | Limerick | Open |
| Mitigating Cyber threats in healthcare using MITRE ATT&CK Framework | Limerick | Open |
| Protecting Genomic data using Cyber Standards | Limerick | Open |
| Security of legacy medical devices | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Neural Network Model Selection | Limerick | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Investigating the interplay between cardiovascular risk factors (diabetes and disturbed flow) on endothelial cell dysfunction | London | Open |
| 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 |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| New natural sweeteners' effects on microbial communication (quorum sensing) | Limerick | Open |
| Purification of green extracts from food by-products to obtain bioactive-rich ingredients | Limerick | Reserved |
| The anti-thrombotic properties of dairy lipids | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| The genetic contribution to fracture risk in Thoroughbreds | London | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Application of Deep Learning to detect potentially novel exons/transcript structures in genomic sequences | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Bacteria in Freshwater: A Historical Record of Past Pollution? | Glasgow | Open |
| Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism for Genetic Screens | Glasgow | Open |
| Genetic engineering for agriculture in a changing climate | Glasgow | Reserved |
| Mesophiles and Thermophiles in the Urban Environment | Glasgow | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Design and development of motorcycle impact protection using 3D printing with controlled internal structures | Limerick | Open |
| Development of a digital twin for a metal-bending manufacturing operation | Limerick | Open |
| Real-time signal processing and feature extraction of robotic drilling process | Limerick | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Targeted RNA Extraction from Probiotic Bacteria | Dublin | Reserved |
| Purification of Extracellular Vesicles from Probiotic Bacteria | Dublin | Open |
| Preparation of RNA Nanoparticles | Dublin | Open |
| Optimizing Primer Selection for Detecting Bacteria Associated with Diverse Fungal Isolates | Dublin | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Synthesis of Drug-Like Building Blocks Using Continuous Flow Reactors | Dublin | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Physics of Collective Behavior | Dublin | Reserved |
| Biomedical Assays Using Green Technology |
Dublin | Open |
| Advanced Models of Bio-Nano Interactions | Dublin | Open |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Investigating a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease | Dublin | Reserved |
| PROJECT NAME | LOCATION | PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED* |
|---|---|---|
| Exploring the Use of VR for Enhancing Learning | Glasgow | Open |
| Disgust Sensitivity and Mental Health Stigma |
Glasgow | Open |
| Sensory Perception and Neurodiversity |
Glasgow | Open |