UK Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

The Government Office for Science offers UK Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to outstanding early career science or engineering researchers. These Fellowships are designed to promote unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence communities. The Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure, Department for Transport, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Home Office, and the National Cyber Security Centre are among the organisations represented in the UK Intelligence Community for the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.

One round of applications is held annually. Members of the IC identify research topics and the Research Fellows work locally with University Research Advisors to develop and submit research proposals that align with the topics.

Research Topics

Determining the impact and use of synthetic biology methods to create existing, modified or new pathogens

Near-field explosive properties, understanding the effect of short duration, high intensity environments on adjacent material

Detecting needles in haystacks - how can quantum sensors help improving security screening?

Measuring deterrence success of public assistance measures

Generation of novel sensors for chemical detection

Pattern dection (structural) within large complex network graphs

Agile manufacturing of multi-constituent metamaterial inspired electromagnetic devices

An investigation of 5G technology and the threats it presents for the security community and identification of countermeasure opportunities

Research into future millimetre wave wireless systems propagation in modern built and secure environments

Smart cities, multimedia mesh networking

Automated component recognition for hardware assurance

Improving energy storage and energy harvesting in IoT wireless sensor nodes

Modelling the effects of mechanical stress for batteries in wearable applications

Propagation-resistant safe battery packs without compromising on high energy densities

Robust physical layer security for wireless communications

Improving quantum and optical sensors using machine learning techniques

Reconfigurable broadband RF metamaterials

Reasoning for autonomous domain specific robots

Cyber influence on behaviour change: Prevalence, predictors, progress and prevention

Explainable and trustworthy artificial intelligence

The research is conducted by the Research Fellows while working in partnership with the University Research Advisor, and collaborating with an advisor from the Intelligence Community (IC Advisor). The Fellowships are aimed at early career researchers from all branches of science and engineering who have up to four years postdoctoral experience. Each application for the Fellowships is capped at a maximum grant of £200,000 over a two-year period

deadline at 4pm on Monday 06 April 2020. 

Institution
Application date
Duration
2 years
Discipline
Humanities : Anthropology & Ethnology
Social sciences : Law, Gender studies, Identities, gender and sexuality, Psychology & Cognitive Sciences, Information and Communication Sciences, Sociology
Other : Computer science, Physics, mathematics and engineering