Why does this site mainly consist of research involved with biology and medicine?

I am interested in doing a PhD in artificial inelegance and more specifically evolutionary computation or mimicking/simulating the evolution and life. I cant find anything and this site seems to lack any projects within computing departments.

Any help would be appreciated as i feel I am running out of time to apply

Oh and I am from the UK and am preferably looking for a Scotland based institute but I might have to go anywhere.

"artificial inelegance " - please explain that concept to me... Is it part of a cumputing degree?

You've searched all UK Universities Computing Depts websites for suitable positions?

firefox has some built in spell checker that kind of sucks.....

I have searched some of the Scottish University websites but not any of the English ones. I don't know what university's to look at. there is something like 160 university's and searching all of them would take a very long time. I searched for a long time on the Edinburgh website and found a few PhDs but it does not seem to be anything like the number they claim to have running at any one time so I am thinking they have others on another page.

At the moment I am just finding it rather frustrating that I feel I need a PhD in finding PhDs before i even start looking....

Just as a thought, can your previous supervisors/ lecturers not head you in the right direction?

Hi Dukes

Suspect the scientific bias on the forum is that it's just that kind of site but there are other domains in here, if you look closely.

Artificial Intelligence - I suggest you try Heriott Watt University in Scotland or University of Sussex in England.

Cheers and good luck with the search.

You've looked at the Times University Rankings League Table (re 'Computer Science') for the top ranked Universities?

You statement 'there is something like 160 university's and searching all of them would take a very long time', I would find a bit worrying if i were you; considering you are contemplating embarking on a research degree, yet baulk at the effort involved in a basic exercise such as this.

I have not used the times list I preferred the RAE ratings. I have looked through and yes you can cut out maybe 50-60 universitys that have something in the title suggesting arts or medicine. That however still leaves a large number of universities. Given that each University's website is structured in their own way finding all of the research projects they have to offer is a next to imposable task given the time frame. I have checked the top computing universitys but like I said Scottish ones were my focus. I was looking to find an easier way to browse computing projects on a website such as this. This one seems dominated by medical and biological research so i was running on the assumption there is passably another site that is heavy on computing.

I have been to www.jobs.ac.uk also but it does not seem to have much

Outside of forum and online job applications - most jobs are also placed in the relevant journals (who usually post them online under their)- in science that would be Nature magazine etc -

are there no equivalent journals that you are familiar with, that would run these posts and help your search?

I'm sure you have a list of 6 or 7 ideal universities in Scotland based on their Rae ratings/reputations etc that you would be happy to go to. So why not phone or email the research secretary/departmental administrator in each of the computer science/artificial intelligence departments at these universities as this person will probably know exactly what studentships are being offered by their university this year, or would certainly be in a position to tell you where to look on the university's website. It's worth bearing in mind that some studentships are not very effectively advertised externally or even on the university department's own website. Another approach is to see whether the relevant research council can tell you which universities in Scotland has been awarded their quota of studentships.

I think people here are bending over backwards to accomodate someone who is not motivated enough to do a basic search for a PhD. I would go through the relevant university departments for ALL the universities in the UK in a couple of days!

Are you kidding me? I have been searching for hours a day for quite some time now. I began trying find out about PhDs and where to find them in December. I've been looking at this website and jobs.ac.uk for the past 2 months at least every 2nd day. There is a huge difference between not putting in effort and legitimately being unsure if I am even looking in the right places. For your information I've exactly ZERO people to ask about this other than here on the forums due to the people I was in contact with at university all leaving the university.

My frustration is the lack of computing projects on this site, on jobs.ac.uk and proposed on the university websites. You would also question if you are doing things right if you found no projects about the field you are interested in. I ran on the assumption it was just a bad time of year to be looking but now 2 months later Im actually questioning if Im even going about this the right way. I've emailed Edinburgh this past week and am waiting for a reply to see if they have any other projects not advertised.

I also have to say that is a pretty bold claim to go through every project in every university in a given field. I spent 6 hours going through the projects and sub departments and even some other departments looking for any information I could get about Edinburgh university. I checked what all their lecturers were interested in, their past projects, currant projects, proposed projects, research groups... I read as much as I could not just skimmed titles. Yes i could probably skim titles of a project but that wont give me much information into the project. Some bad titles may actually be interesting so i choose to look into what each project is about and try understand it before I make judgment. STILL I have yet to find one in the area of evolutionary computation despite finding many projects that have been done with them.

On a further note i dont have the luxury of being able to go to any university in the UK... Scotland is about as far as i can go due to personal reasons.