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EPSRC Support by Research Areas in Theme (Engineering)

Research areas are used to describe EPSRC's portfolio of excellent long term research and high quality postgraduate training.

Grants are classified using one or more research areas. The number and value of grants listed below reflects how the theme portfolio in question is currently constituted.

Please note: this is a dynamic database reflecting the current grants portfolio by Research Area within a Theme. Therefore, the number and value of grants within a Research Area will not match exactly the thematic Research Area distributions given at EPSRC's portfolio.

Research AreaNumber of GrantsProportional Value (£)
Analytical Science22 6,104,859
Architecture and Operating Systems2 348,268
Artificial Intelligence Technologies18 4,304,290
Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics5 4,753,406
Bioenergy1 658,438
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering30 15,686,326
Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics12 5,937,804
Built Environment11 2,606,376
Carbon Capture and Storage3 1,478,227
Catalysis16 13,609,555
Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry7 744,266
Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms3 982,573
Clinical Technologies (excluding imaging)16 5,679,091
Coastal and Waterway Engineering15 5,155,937
Combustion Engineering13 3,768,304
Complex Fluids & Rheology24 10,668,672
Computational & Theoretical Chemistry2 233,151
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure5 982,989
Condensed Matter: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials3 204,027
Continuum Mechanics10 1,224,042
Control Engineering25 10,712,123
Digital Signal Processing1 175,692
Electrical Motors and Drive / Electromagnetics9 4,625,804
Electrochemical Sciences5 523,869
End Use Energy Demand (Energy Efficiency)10 2,857,640
Energy Networks2 197,997
Energy Storage3 1,665,312
Engineering Design13 4,735,571
Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics118 44,727,060
Functional Ceramics and Inorganics13 3,102,350
Graphene and Carbon Nanotechnology4 573,186
Ground Engineering33 14,068,731
Human-Computer Interaction2 126,825
Hydrogen and Alternative Energy Vectors3 130,352
ICT Networks & Distributed Systems5 562,290
Image and Vision Computing8 440,145
Information Systems2 178,649
Infrastructure and Urban Systems21 8,448,469
Light Matter Interaction and Optical Phenomena2 1,121,875
Manufacturing Technologies33 14,236,467
Materials Engineering - Ceramics11 6,769,543
Materials Engineering - Composites37 22,907,326
Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys22 14,935,813
Materials For Energy Applications11 9,317,748
Mathematical Physics1 179,520
Medical Imaging (inc medical image and vision computing)4 971,812
Microelectronics Design3 607,192
Microelectronics Device Technology2 314,324
Microsystems32 6,654,457
Music and Acoustic Technology1 42,820
Non-Linear Systems4 223,624
Nuclear Fission3 1,720,091
Numerical Analysis4 510,744
Operational research6 3,237,767
Optical Communications2 1,854,279
Optical Devices and Subsystems10 6,321,717
Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits3 509,969
Particle Technology26 6,967,311
Performance and Inspection of Mechanical Structures and Systems46 21,359,837
Photonic Materials8 6,305,113
Polymer Materials16 6,355,301
Process Systems: Components and Integration43 22,111,063
Quantum Devices, Components and Systems2 224,910
Quantum Optics and Information1 1,088,292
RF & Microwave Devices8 1,011,090
RF & MW Communications6 1,274,021
Robotics20 14,650,130
Sensors and Instrumentation74 26,231,883
Software Engineering1 221,455
Statistics and Applied Probability1 53,029
Structural Engineering37 24,236,358
Surface Science12 1,706,416
Synthetic Biology35 24,979,657
Synthetic Coordination Chemistry2 246,050
Synthetic Organic Chemistry3 544,118
Synthetic Supramolecular Chemistry3 479,588
Theoretical Computer Science1 316,340
Transportation Operations and Management1 559,287
Verification and Correctness1 87,105
Vision, Hearing and Other Senses2 193,196
Water Engineering13 11,546,683
Whole Energy Systems1 244,980
Wind Power10 1,124,454