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​

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.

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 Open 

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 Open 
Atmosphere thermodynamics state studies using satellite and ground-based microwave radiometry Granada Open 

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 Open
Dispersion and effects of volcanic aerosols ejected into the atmosphere during Cumbre Vieja eruption in La Palma (Spain) Granada Open
Understanding ground-based NASA networks for supporting satellite missions Granada Open
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 Open

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 Open
Does the Smoothness of Concrete on Vertical Seawalls Influence Their Biodiversity Dublin Open
Exploring the Spectrum of Activity of Antibiotic Compounds Produced by Fungal Endophytes of Wild Barley Relatives Dublin Open
The Microbiome of Fungi: How Often are Bacteria Found in Close Association with Fungal Endophytes? Dublin Open

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

Biological Engineering/Cell and Molecular Biology 

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

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 Open

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 Open
Production embryos from in vitro matured cat oocytes  London Open
microRNA regulation of embryonic cell development  London Reserved
Do extracellular vesicles in commercial goat and sheep milk modulate human immune cell function  London Open
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 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

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 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

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 Open

Civil Engineering

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

Computer Engineering

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

Computer Science

PROJECT NAME LOCATION PROJECT STATUS: OPEN / RESERVED*
Metaverse for Climate Awareness Dublin Open
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 Open

Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence

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

 

Computer Science/Cybersecurity

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

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 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

Food Science

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

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 Open

Life Science

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

 

Mechanical Engineering

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

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 Open
Preparation of RNA Nanoparticles Dublin Open
Optimizing Primer Selection for Detecting Bacteria Associated with Diverse Fungal Isolates Dublin Open

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 Open
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 Open
Advanced Models of Bio-Nano Interactions Dublin Open

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 Open
Disgust Sensitivity and Mental Health Stigma
Glasgow Open
Sensory Perception and Neurodiversity
Glasgow Open

OPEN - PROJECT STILL AVAILABLE FOR STUDENT COMPLETION
Reserved - Project already taken by a student
postponed - project not available for current term