Some projects will accept applications from those on any degree programme and others are course specific. Please ensure you meet the requirements before applying. Please click on the project title in the table below to find out more about each of the research internships. You can apply for up to three projects.
LivSURF Projects
| Project Title | Places Available | Project Length | Essential Course Requirements |
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The Psychological Scale of Proximity: Exploring 15mC travel behaviour patterns in the LCR |
6 | 8 - 10 weeks | Urban Planning, Geography, Civil or Transport Engineering, Architecture, Sociology, Psychology, Environmental Studies, or related disciplines. |
| AI-Based Wireless Sensing Solution for Human Vital Signs Detection | 1 | 8 - 10 weeks | Any degree discipline however would suit those who have knowledge in AI-based Programming |
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Implied Agreements Abroad Exploring Student Psychological Contracts on the 2+2 Pathway |
3 | 6 - 8 weeks | Business Admini.stration or business-related discipline |
| Analysing discussions of exotic foods on Reddit | 2 | 6 - 8 weeks | English Language, Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Media Studies or related discipline |
| Gamification in planning education Is there a space for pedagogical innovation | 1 | 4 - 6 weeks | Planning |
| Modelling ball games head injuries | 4 | 8 - 10 weeks | Mechanical Engineering Or Aerospace Engineering or related disciplines. |
| Affordable Diagnostic Tools for Corneal Conditions | 3 | 8 - 10 weeks | Engineering (or equivalent) Or Computer Science |
| Digital Discovery of Polymeric and Molecular Materials | 1 | 8 - 10 weeks | Chemistry or Physics |
| Preparation and characterisation of biobased thermoplastic elastomer nanocomposites | 1 | 6 - 8 weeks | Mechanical Engineering Or Chemistry (or equivalent - must have so experience in materials or polymers) |
| Hateful Video Detection via Verbalized Prompt Learning | 4 | 8 - 10 weeks | Any degree discipline however must have good programming skills |
| Visual Content Forgery Detection and Its Security Implications | 4 | 8 - 10 weeks | Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, Information Security, or a related discipline |
| Water Recovery through Membrane Filtration | 4 | 8 - 10 weeks | Chemistry Or Medicinal Chemistry Or Biological Sciences / Biochemistry or related disciplines |
| Accelerating Chemistry Lab Automation Through AI-Driven Robotics | 2 | 8 - 10 weeks | Computer Science/Engineering OR Chemistry degree Or related disciplin with a strong programming component. |
| Defining DTX3Ls role in DNA repair | 2 | 6 - 8 weeks | Biomedical, Biochemistry undergraduates or relative disaplines with modules including Molecular Biology and Statistics. |
| Synthesis of PROTAC E3 Ligase Binders for Deployment in Motor Neurone Disease Therapies | 1 | 8 - 10 weeks | Chemistry or BSc Medicinal Chemistry |
| Offshore Financial Centres iOFCs in the Caribbeans a preliminary investigation | 2 | 4 - 6 weeks | Any degree disapline however, familiarity with numbers is probably very useful. |
| Semi-Supervised Multi-Task Learning for Fetal Cardiac Structure Segmentation and Congenital Heart Disease Diagnosis from Multi-View Ultrasound | 2 | 8 - 10 weeks | Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics, or a closely related discipline. |
| Learning From Normal Vision-Language Alignment for Explainable Anomaly Detection in Fetal 4-Chamber Echocardiography | 2 | 8 - 10 weeks | Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics, or a closely related discipline. |
| AI-Native Transceiver Design for Next-Generation Wireless Networks | 2 | 8 - 10 weeks | Electrical and Electronic Engineering Or Computer Science Or Mechatronics & Robotics Systems or a closely related disapline which included prior coursework in machine learning or artificial intelligence is desirable but not essential. |
| Designing using Liverpools Atmosphere A Research-Through Design Experience | 4 | 4 - 6 weeks | Any degree disapline however would suit those who are interested and motivated about the topic. |
| Deep Learning for Audio Deepfake Detection | 4 | 8 - 10 weeks | Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, or relative disapline which has included machine learning topics |
| The evolution and spread of antimicrobial resistance plasmids | 1 | 8 - 10 weeks | Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences, or Biochemistry modules |
| Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting | 2 | 8 | Any degree disapline however would suit those who have knowledge in microwave and RF |
| Computing Good Clusterings Faster | 1 | 4 - 6 weeks | Computer science or Mmathematics. With experience in design and analysis of algorithms, ideally knowledge in combinatorial optimisation and approximation algorithms |
| AI-Accelerated Formulation of Soft Matter | 2 | 8 - 10 weeks | Physics Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science, or related subjects. |
| Device Authentication for WiFi Using Deep Learning and Radio Frequency Fingerprint | 3 | 8 - 10 weeks | Computer science, Electrical Engineering or related disapline |
| Develop an impedance tomography system | 2 | 8 - 10 weeks | Ethier: EEE, mechatronics systems or CS with EEE - For work on the reconstruction of the interior structure,OR computer science, mathematics or physics (as well as EEE related) |
| The Language of Molecules First Steps in Fine-Tuning of LLMs for Mass Spectromettry | 2 | 6 - 8 weeks | Chemistry |
| Supramolecular Organisation of Morphogen Signal as a Therapeutic Target | 1 | 8 weeks | Biology, Biochemistry |
| Identifying novel tissue growth Regulators for Pharmacological Intervention | 1 | 8 weeks | Biology, or Biochemistry or Biotechnology. |
| Scaling Down Human Tumoral Growth | 1 | 8 weeks | Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology of Medicine. |
| nternational student AI usage in higher education - A comparison between universities in China and the UK | 6 | 8 - 10 weeks | Any disapline considered with that has experience of using AI tools could also be appropriate however Computer Science, Engineering, Science, or Business / Management would be prefered. |
| Transitioning to a Top-Down Learning Model via GAI | 3 | 6 - 8 weeks | Accounting & Finance or Economics students. |
| Writing to the League of Nations Activism and Womens Organisations during the Spanish Civil War | 2 | 6 - 8 weeks | Politics, International Relations, Languages, Cultures and Film, History, Sociology, Law, Communication and Media |
| High Resolution Imaging of Aortic Collagen. | 4 | 6 - 8 weeks | Materials science Or Physics Or Bioengineering Or Biomedical sciences |
| Tissue localisation and systemic immune modulation by parasitic nematodes: a comparative multi-omics study | 3 | 4 - 6 weeks | Bioinformatics ore related disaplines which have covered bioinformatics modules |
| Investigating mechanisms controlling gene expression in low oxygen Hypoxia | 2 | 4 - 6 weeks | Any disapline considered however student must have understanding of biology |
| Digital Twins in Vascular Health | 2 | 8 - 10 weeks | Engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, bioscience, or medicine |
| CDIO Lab-in-a-Box Project toolkit for EEE lab deployment | 3 | 4 - 6 weeks | EEE, Mechatronics, or Computer Science |
| Making Artificial Cells with Levitated Droplets | 1 | 8 - 10 weeks | Physical sciences or engineering (mechanical, chemical, biomedical) |
| Detecting Unsafe or Misleading AI Reasoning in Everyday QA | 1 | 8 - 10 weeks | Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, or relative disapline which has included machine learning topics |
| Out-of-Distribution Detection for Vision-Language Models in Safety-Critical Scenarios | 4 | 8 - 10 weeks | Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, or relative disapline which has included machine learning topics |
| Programming heat with geometry Lattice design for thermal management | 1 | 8 - 10 weeks | Mechanical Engineering/ Materials Science and Engineering/ Manufacturing Engineering/ Energy Engineering/ Aerospace Engineering or closely related disciplines |
| Investigating population genetics of IS1 insertion sequences in opportunistic bacterial pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae | 1 | 8 - 10 weeks | Bioinformatics, Microbiology and Infection, or Biological Sciences |
To access all of the project briefs click here. Before you submit your application it would be worth dropping in to the Career Studio for the team to check your CV and form. We're also running a series of workshops to help with every stage of the application process.
Once you've chosen the projects that you are interested in click here to apply via Handshake.
Please note: You must be available to attend the mandatory Induction training between the 1st and 5th June 2026. Selection is competitive based on your application and CV. We do not guarantee experiences so be sure to seek support with your application before applying.
Questions?
Please contact the team by email if you have any questions or would like any further information: livsurf@liverpool.ac.uk
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