Finding a Research Supervisor
In order to conduct your postgraduate research successfully the match between you and your project supervisor is essential.
Identify a topic/supervisor before you apply
A vital quality of your research proposal is that the work you want to do lies within the existing expertise of academic staff at ICM. You should identify the general area you would like to work in as early as possible and contact the supervisor directly to discuss the possibility. Our research areas and the staff involved can be found in our research section.
Some of the criteria upon which the RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) is graded include research publications, industrial collaborations, grant income, and numbers of research students. You can get an idea of this yourself by looking up the publications of your potential new supervisor. A pretty good measure of grant income is to count the number of students and postdoctoral researcher in the group.
Postdoctoral researchers are an invaluable source of help and inspiration, particularly in larger groups where time with your supervisor may be limited. The best source of information on who to work for will come from your current course tutors. Academia is a small world and is highly collaborative; people know who the leading researchers are in their own fields.
