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EPSRC Support by Research Areas in Theme (Manufacturing the Future)

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 Science5 392,308
Artificial Intelligence Technologies4 138,930
Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics1 2,804,469
Biological Informatics1 156,944
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering12 7,561,176
Carbon Capture and Storage1 542,649
Catalysis9 13,558,710
Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry1 586,554
Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms4 716,013
Clinical Technologies (excluding imaging)3 1,116,671
Complex Fluids & Rheology7 5,517,367
Condensed Matter: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials1 226,505
Control Engineering6 1,303,538
Databases2 237,951
Electrical Motors and Drive / Electromagnetics2 4,395,899
Electrochemical Sciences2 538,308
End Use Energy Demand (Energy Efficiency)4 1,521,117
Energy Storage2 1,292,058
Engineering Design29 21,318,407
Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics5 2,995,862
Functional Ceramics and Inorganics4 1,001,060
Human-Computer Interaction4 4,743,149
Image and Vision Computing4 94,848
Information Systems9 3,042,612
Manufacturing Technologies126 117,973,540
Materials Engineering - Ceramics1 3,217,239
Materials Engineering - Composites18 14,039,285
Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys12 10,441,068
Materials For Energy Applications2 640,456
Mathematical Analysis1 101,289
Mathematical Biology1 104,630
Medical Imaging (inc medical image and vision computing)1 383,908
Microelectronics Design1 72,675
Microelectronics Device Technology1 218,025
Microsystems6 2,378,346
Nuclear Fission1 299,873
Numerical Analysis3 629,083
Operational Research10 11,671,689
Optical Communications1 924,082
Optical Devices and Subsystems8 9,936,348
Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits11 16,685,217
Particle Technology13 3,591,014
Performance and Inspection of Mechanical Structures and Systems9 6,338,374
Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing2 1,406,689
Photonic Materials5 1,905,832
Plasma and Lasers1 259,085
Polymer Materials10 3,449,876
Process Systems: Components and Integration16 11,464,338
Quantum Devices, Components and Systems1 105,132
Robotics2 971,742
Sensors and Instrumentation13 5,121,490
Solar Technology2 897,311
Statistics and Applied Probability1 81,273
Structural Engineering2 1,244,173
Surface Science1 162,090
Synthetic Biology4 1,363,925
Synthetic Coordination Chemistry1 202,612
Synthetic Organic Chemistry1 269,662