The Format for Proposal of Research

Title of research:

Background

- one paragraph explaining what this thing is about: what the domain of the intended

research is, what the pressing issues are etc

Research question

- one paragraph explaining a specific research question (or questions) relating to the above

Research design and methods

- one paragraph explaining the research design to address the above question(s). This

could include e.g.

- Research methods (e.g., for management research, this could be inductive case

research; survey research; archival research; experiments; etc)

- Empirical context: what is the empirical context or the source of data to be used?

- Analysis methods

intended contributions

- one paragraph explaining what the likely contributions of this research would be: What will

we know with this research that was not known before, and why is it important to know this?
Potential supervisors for Humanities and Bioinspired Science and Technology

Humanities:

Four members of staff in the centre for the history of science who all supervise PhD students:

Andrew Mendelsohn

David Edgerton

Andrew Warwick

Abigail Woods

Details of their research interests can be found in the following website:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/historyofscience/chostmstaff

Details of supervisors in the rest of the humanities department (i.e., science communication,

translation and languages) can be found here:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/humanities/mphilphdstudies

Bioinspired Science and Technology:

Prospective PhD supervisors would be:

Christofer Toumazou - http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.toumazou

Timothy Constandinou - http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/t.constandinou

Pantelis Georgiou - http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/pantelis

The Imperial College London would however seek to find relevant co-supervisors if an
exceptional student applies in a different but related field.

For details on current research of Imperial College London, please ask them visit:

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/bioinspired