The purpose of this investigation is to investigate the electric field dependence of the dynamics of the melting transition of bulk and confined water with an applied electric field of 5kVCm-1, in an attempt to quantify the degree of renormalisation in the hydrogen bond network.The effect of electric field upon the bulk properties of water is known to enhance the nucleation growth of the solid phase. In the field of confined fluids the charge density at the surface of the pore has been thought to have an influence on the confinement phenomena, which may account for the variation in supercooling seen between different porous media with similar pore sizes. The effect of charge density on the dynamics of water is also though to play an import role in biological membranes.