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ageing PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 163 ageing PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Determining Cyber Attacks by Using Machine Learning to Detect Message Anomalies

We are interested in finding ways to determine internal and external attacks on cyber systems such as IoT devices, wireless sensor networks (WSN), car electronic components, or connected computer systems. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Tomlinson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Determining and understanding digital exclusion

Although digital technologies bring benefits to many people, there are some groups, such as older people, people without jobs, or people with disabilities, who potentially face greater barriers to digital inclusion. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Tomlinson, Dr C Bowers
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Detecting Hostile Behaviour Through Real-time Voice Analysis

This PhD study will explore the automation of hostility assessment from the human voice in real-time. The project will leverage recent advances in machine learning to train a hostility predictor model to identify and classify hostile behaviours. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Bowers, Dr FW Why
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Value Creation Stories in Coach Developer Social Learning Spaces

Research concerning Coach Developers has steadily increased in volume over the last decade (e.g., Stodter and Cushion 2019; North 2010; Kraft, Culver, and… Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D Vinson, Dr R Pritchard
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Bridging the Gap: Investigating the Professional Landscape of Applied Performance Analysts in Sports Performance Analysis

As the discipline of sports performance analysis experiences unprecedented growth and diversification, the role of the applied performance analysts emerges as a key component to aid coaches, athletes and stakeholders’ decision making (Martin et al., 2023). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Francis, Prof D Vinson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Transforming Practice: Co-Creating Practitioner Training to Challenge Stigma and Support Activity with Type 1 Diabetes

People with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) consistently report a strong desire to participate in physical activity (PA), yet face persistent structural, educational, and interpersonal barriers throughout their lives. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Richardson
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Nationalism, populist politics and sport migrations: heroes or villains?

Right-wing populist political voices, movements and values have been on the rise. Europe has been witnessing tendencies that are frequently associated with identity politics, ethno-nationalism, racism, sexism, anti-elitism and a general sense of ‘them vs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Molnar, Dr S Whigham
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Therapeutic Landscapes: Creative Placemaking, Folklore and Wellbeing

Who is this for. creative and health practitioners wishing to explore artistic practice within discourses of socially engaged art practice, placemaking and folk cultures, and to benefit from the emerging professional opportunities for artists working in the field of creative health. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Cussans, Mrs DM McCannon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Reframing Critical and Socially Engaged Arts Practices from a Creative Health / Health Humanities Perspective

Within the field of contemporary arts there has been a significant shift over the last decade towards collaborative, participatory and socially engaged arts practices that could be re-purposed for wider and specific public health needs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Cussans, Prof SN Nicholson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Arts-led Approaches to Trauma and Healing

The Covid pandemic led to a worldwide increase in physical and mental health needs, particularly amongst the young, the elderly and minority groups. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Cussans, Dr PG Golz, Dr DS Sommerville
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Addressing the Psycho-Emotional Impact of Climate Anxiety on Children and Young People through Illustration

Climate change is contributing to a worldwide increase in physical and mental health needs. There is subsequently a critical bottleneck in supply and demand for mental health services in the UK and further afield, especially for child and adolescent mental health [1]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Cussans, Mrs DM McCannon, Mr TH Hickey
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Working with farming families to build resilience when living with dementia

Although there is no cure for dementia, the experience can be shaped by the individual’s’ coping style, life history, health, neurological impairments and social environment. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CHJ Jones
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What role can leisure play in enabling people to sustain their chosen lifestyle post diagnosis with dementia?

Discourse about dementia and best practice in addressing its malign outcomes has progressed over the last generation from a purely medicalised lens, through person centred and personhood approaches, to those where the social citizenship of individuals is promoted. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr CR Russell
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The potential of AI in the detection and diagnosis of dementia in rural areas/underserved groups

There are currently around 982,000 people with dementia in the UK with the number expected to rise to 1.4 million by 2040 (Alzheimer’s Society, 2025). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Evans
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Pain management for people living with dementia in Extra Care Housing

Background. There is plenty of research and a large body of evidence that shows that, for older people living with dementia, pain assessment and management is suboptimal as compared to other older people with similar health conditions in hospitals, residential care, nursing care and in their own homes. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Barrett, Dr MO O’Malley
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only