Imperial Maths School Research Projects

What would the project involve?

We are looking for mentors either working in business or industry, or academic mentors at PhD level and above to work with a small group of students on a research project. We are looking for a broad range of topics for projects, but each should involve some application or use of mathematics. This role will involve:

Setting an interesting project on a topic of your choice in your area of expertise for students to research.
Providing guidance, mathematical support and sources in online meetings and via email.
A 10-15 hour voluntary commitment between September 2026 and March 2027.

Students will produce an academic poster and report on their topic, and mentors will provide feedback on draft copies. Additionally, students will give a 10-minute presentation at Imperial at the end of the project, which their mentors as well as friends and family are welcome to attend. We are open to any topic with a mathematical aspect that can be studied at a level appropriate for high achieving early A level students.

Where can I see examples from previous years?

Some example topics from the last cohort of students include Generating Functions, Period Doubling and Chaos in Nonlinear Maps, Digitalisation of Radar Signals, and Approximation Theory. 

Mentors come from a variety of disciplines and levels of academia, with many selected individuals teaching or conducting research at Imperial.

You can find out more information about the research projects programme and individual projects here.

If you are interested in becoming a mentor for our 2026/27 cohort of students, please sign up via this Microsoft form.

If you have any questions, or are interested in being involved in this, please contact the Year 12 super curricular coordinator Emma Wheeler (ewheeler@iclms.ac.uk). For any other Imperial Maths School outreach activities, please contact the headteacher of the school David Lee (dlee@imperialmathsschool.ac.uk) copying in Savannah Hersov (Imperial Outreach Team - s.hersov@imperial.ac.uk).

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