Mini Research Projects

Students complete two mini-research projects, one in Lent term and one in Easter term. Projects are devised by supervisors from Cambridge University departments across a wide range of sciences, technology and medicine. The range of topics is varied and challenges the students in new areas of sensor technologies and applications.

Students are assigned a topic for the first mini research project, and this is chosen by their MRes advisor to stretch the student in a new academic discipline.

The second mini research project will be closely aligned with the student's future PhD project. At the end of some projects, students publish their results at conferences or in scientific journals.

View the Mini Research Project 1 topics from Lent Term 2026.