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EPSRC Support By Research Topic

Data shown is current at 19th November 2010.
A classification scheme has been developed by the Research Councils which covers all of their remits. The complete list of research topics is shown, but there will be topics that are outside EPSRC's remit. To navigate through the 400 research topics, you can use the initial filter.

We classify grants using one or more research topics. Value is the total value of the grants awarded, not the proportion assigned to different research topics, so it does not show the level of investment in different research areas.

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Research TopicNumber of GrantsValue (£)
Acoustics79 26,946,519
Aerodynamics64 26,969,061
Agricultural systems1 11,764,897
Algebra and Geometry149 56,563,249
Analytical Science134 94,356,377
Animal and human physiology6 960,835
Archaeological Theory1 501,450
Artificial Intelligence Technologies 149 90,170,280
Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Land and Groundwater14 8,075,520
Asymmetric Chemistry33 9,281,440
Atoms and Ions3 202,794
Bioelectronic Devices20 29,977,455
Bioenergy28 19,630,963
Bioinformatics41 41,658,635
Biological and Medicinal Chemistry104 71,027,523
Biological membranes 1 246,905
Biomaterials65 36,689,265
Biomechanics and Rehabilitation45 29,614,588
Biomedical neuroscience57 51,994,003
Biomedical sciences1 397,413
Bionanoscience1 414,945
Biophysics6 11,244,718
Bioprocess Engineering26 9,984,258
Building Operation and Management101 67,923,609
Carbohydrate Chemistry7 5,663,933
Carbon Capture and Storage16 11,241,957
Catalysis and Applied Catalysis154 60,618,946
Catalysis and enzymology4 4,759,862
Cells68 54,337,831
Chemical Biology112 88,243,031
Chemical Structure143 72,414,013
Chemical Synthetic Methodology226 107,605,775
Civil Engineering Materials37 15,715,619
Coal Technology14 9,175,765
Coastal and Waterway Engineering26 20,744,669
Cognitive Science Applications in ICT35 20,586,843
Cold Atomic Species54 42,308,670
Combinatorial Chemistry22 15,560,681
Combustion63 30,482,416
Complex fluids and soft solids97 61,829,555
Complexity Science62 47,973,301
Composition1 250,102
Computational Methods and Tools1 99,613
Computational/Corpus Linguistics15 7,074,474
Computer Graphics and Visualisation26 8,236,028
Computer Systems and Architecture6 6,208,339
Condensed Matter Physics121 65,525,197
Construction Operations and Management43 58,531,536
Continuum Mechanics72 29,876,887
Control Engineering75 44,950,199
Co-ordination Chemistry55 22,661,903
Crop protection11 2,413,752
Crop science1 1,302,692
Cultural History1 2,688,997
Design and Testing Technology13 23,678,743
Design Engineering16 35,253,073
Design History, Theory and Practice2 12,138,490
Design of Process systems54 50,347,671
Design Processes29 25,016,617
Development (Biosciences)13 6,705,196
Digital Art & Design2 12,192,044
Digital Arts History, Theory and Practice2 14,695,954
Digital Signal Processing76 23,274,472
Displays16 5,772,497
Drug Formulation and Delivery51 30,162,915
Earth Resources1 501,450
Economic And Social History1 2,688,997
Economics3 23,990,457
Education6 1,878,386
Electrical Motor and Drive Systems10 3,473,430
Electrochemical Science and Engineering43 19,743,835
Electromagnetics6 4,051,284
Electronic Devices and Subsystems125 94,160,411
Energy - Conventional26 20,112,707
Energy - Marine and Hydropower7 13,530,851
Energy - Nuclear39 30,314,874
Energy Efficiency111 63,500,541
Energy Storage16 15,549,692
Engineering Dynamics and Tribology60 29,017,547
Environmental Planning1 11,764,897
eScience 4 13,915,885
Fluid Dynamics39 30,570,147
Fuel Cell Technologies46 31,290,305
Fundamentals of Computing 207 91,953,253
Fusion11 16,761,525
Gas and Solution Phase Reactions61 39,716,407
Genomics30 44,146,502
Ground Engineering49 19,913,360
Heat and Mass Transfer44 21,914,655
High Performance Computing52 16,118,856
History Of Music1 250,102
Human Communication in ICT26 9,172,329
Human Geography1 11,764,897
Human-Computer Interactions117 94,134,179
Hydrological Processes2 101,903
ICT Networks and Distributed Systems138 114,900,138
Image and Vision Computing127 72,606,646
Information and Knowledge Management118 107,955,840
Instrumentation Engineering and Development144 99,008,749
Intelligent and Expert Systems14 18,813,373
Intelligent Measurement Systems13 6,938,908
Interpreting And Translation1 100,240
Journalism1 449,681
Lasers and Optics74 51,620,482
Law Regulated By Statute1 790,239
Light-Matter Interactions26 11,924,075
Logic and Combinatorics56 27,847,804
Magnetism/Magnetic Phenomena49 25,354,785
Management & Business Studies2 223,798
Mantle And Core Processes1 903,958
Manufacturing Business Strategy26 37,239,332
Manufacturing Enterprise Operations and Management15 17,819,071
Manufacturing Machinery & Plant26 61,220,549
Materials Characterisation671 368,785,930
Materials Processing220 157,779,169
Materials Synthesis and Growth357 222,469,623
Materials testing and engineering124 76,249,957
Mathematical Analysis102 54,880,315
Mathematical Aspects of Operational Research36 43,406,169
Mathematical Physics73 30,278,324
Mechanical and Fluid Power Transmission9 4,121,504
Media & Communication Studies19 21,962,308
Medical Imaging26 16,816,802
Medical Instrumentation, Devices and Equipment163 129,635,418
Medical science and disease107 82,245,172
Mental Health2 12,197,001
Microsystems41 30,914,659
Mining & Minerals Extraction4 2,165,754
Mobile Computing84 77,386,387
Modelling and simulation of IT systems24 22,462,352
Multimedia29 28,256,536
Multiphase Flow55 32,541,166
Music and Acoustic Technology14 3,989,824
Musicology1 250,102
New and Emerging Computing Paradigms51 39,342,698
New Media/Web-Based Studies15 26,710,682
Non-linear Systems Mathematics112 59,509,251
Nuclear Structure1 119,766
Numerical Analysis101 58,310,249
Oil and Gas Extraction15 5,226,769
Optical Communications36 37,027,669
Optical Devices and Subsystems106 77,759,778
Optical Phenomena41 34,240,996
Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits73 50,644,152
Parallel Computing41 21,141,367
Particle Technology34 15,033,289
Pavement Engineering7 6,482,222
Physical Organic Chemistry43 20,808,886
Plasmas - Laser and Fusion41 21,312,470
Plasmas - Technological20 11,655,209
Policy, Arts Management & Creative Industries2 2,084,929
Pollution1 287,905
Population Ecology24 25,629,394
Power Electronics26 25,932,682
Power Systems Management, Protection and Control22 23,315,761
Power Systems Plant18 22,665,959
Product Design3 12,557,280
Protein chemistry3 714,861
Protein folding / misfolding2 634,247
Psycholinguistics2 283,990
Psychology2 1,138,737
Publishing4 1,567,841
Quantum Fluids and Solids16 11,845,133
Quantum Optics & Information69 38,598,152
Radio Frequency (RF) and Microwave Technology70 37,131,865
Reactor Engineering38 12,389,667
Rheology 15 10,381,756
Robotics and Autonomy34 13,253,581
Scattering & Spectroscopy19 10,705,552
Science And Technology Studies1 378,532
Separation Processes16 11,576,646
Social Statistics, Computation & Methods1 488,208
Sociology2 2,890,845
Software Engineering123 81,610,289
Soil science1 1,302,692
Solar Technology71 56,665,647
Statistics and Applied Probability112 77,771,699
Stem cell biology1 101,745
Structural biology 1 414,945
Structural Engineering42 19,028,652
Surfaces and Interfaces142 108,535,477
Sustainable Energy Networks49 56,718,406
Sustainable Energy Vectors31 26,872,566
Synthetic biology16 12,227,101
System on Chip88 67,606,420
Theoretical biology55 50,732,853
Tissue Engineering68 74,849,430
Transportation Operations and Management86 49,054,256
Unclassified256 122,638,459
Underwater Engineering1 183,951
Urban and Land Management69 52,408,918
Vision, Hearing and Other Senses - Applications in ICT37 17,446,812
VLSI Design33 18,959,330
Waste Management13 17,221,859
Waste Minimisation3 1,318,813
Water Engineering43 21,887,551
Wind Power7 6,589,332

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