The Lab is led by Dr Rebecca Stewart and based in the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. It has on average three PhD students from Imperial, hosts around one visiting PhD student each year, and a further 2-3 students from the taught programmes within Design Engineering.

The Lab was previously located at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London until 2019.

We are an inclusive space and welcome all identities and backgrounds.

Joining the Lab

We currently have no PhD positions directly funded by the Lab available, but are always happy to discuss potential funding applications with prospective students. In general, funding opportunities are advertised from late summer/early autumn with submission deadlines in early January and funding decisions made across February to April.

For funding applications for internal competitions at Imperial, it is important to use the combined Personal Statement and Research Proposal document (usually limited to 2 pages in total, but carefully read the requirements for the funding call) to set up what you hope to achieve within your PhD research, how you intend to do it, and why you are the best person to undertake that research.