We have 1,755 environment PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

The key idea is that rubber soil mixtures (RSM) derived from shredded car tyres, can be installed (actually retrofitted), at beneficial economic and environmental costs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J McDougall, Dr JB Bernal

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Achieving changes in private car ownership and use in rural areas of Scotland and the role of car sharing schemes as an instrument to achieve sustainable transport

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Disincentivising car ownership and car use have been deployed as strategies to reduce the Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from transport sector. Read more

Supervisors: Prof P Langdon, Dr JE Eslava-Bautista

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Human Induced Vibration in Floors – an Investigation to assess influence of construction parameters on vibrational performance of residential timber floors

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Traditional timber floor systems are usually composed of a series of parallel timber joists (eg. solid and engineered I-joist or laminated veneer lumber) which support wood-based sheathing. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Khokhar

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Advances in Sustainable Structural Materials – An Experimental and Numerical Investigation to Assess the Structural Performance of Timber Concrete Composites

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

In an age where climate change is at the top of the agenda, engineers have been pushed to find novel techniques of constructing not only for a global population with exponential growth, but in such a manner to ensure sustainably throughout the whole construction process. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Khokhar

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Designing Social Robots

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The project concerns designing and personalisation of Social Robots according to diverse audiences, contexts, and across a spectrum of activities. Read more

Supervisors: Dr ES Sobolewska, Prof FZ Zeller

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Coping with Social Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Care

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The project concerns the spectrum of societal, technological, user-related, and context-dependent implications of involving Social Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the field of Care. Read more

Supervisors: Dr ES Sobolewska, Prof FZ Zeller

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Tangible interfaces in creative practice.

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

This research will investigate the benefits of tactile feedback during the manipulation of objects, in the early design phase by creative practitioners. Read more

Supervisors: Dr MS Smyth, Dr IH Helgason

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Remix Culture and AI tools for Creativity

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

This project will explore the changing nature of creative production from the context of data driven AI tools in the Creative Industries. Read more

Supervisor: Dr MS Smyth

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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More than Human Design

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

What are the implications for design when humans are no longer at the centre of the ensemble? This project with explore the next generation of design methods that can reveal the requirements of a system that is composed of human and nonhuman agents. Read more

Supervisor: Dr MS Smyth

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“Why are models so attractive?” Exploring the use of physical and digital modelmaking in architectural design production.

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Information on this PhD research area can be found further down this page under the details about the Widening Participation Scholarship given immediately below. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Moustaka, Dr DJ Hales

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Advancing Inclusive and Equitable Approaches for Anticipatory Climate Change Actions

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Information on this PhD research area can be found further down this page under the details about the Widening Participation Scholarship given immediately below. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Geekiyanage, Assoc Prof K Keraminiyage

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Development of Hybrid Solar Concentrator for Hydrogen Production.

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Green hydrogen production is one of the promising technologies in the field of power generation. Recently, hydrogen has received the attention worldwide as the sustainable fuel of the future. Read more

Supervisors: Dr O Ariff, Dr A Bahr Ennil

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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SiC Power MOSFETs for Modern Energy-Conversion Systems

Griffith University School of Engineering and Built Environment

SiC-based Schottky diodes and power MOSFETs are becoming the semiconductor devices of choice in modern energy-conversion systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Dimitrijev

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Application of Safety Data Analytics to Extract Knowledge from FDM Database

Griffith University School of Engineering and Built Environment

The aviation industry collects thousands and thousands of data points every minute, aiming at generating new knowledge in the future. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Junior

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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AI control of an electromagnetic eddy current particle separator for ore enrichment

Griffith University School of Engineering and Built Environment

There has been significant interest in the dry separation of conducting particles using a rotating magnetic drum [1, 2]. In 2023 the principal supervisors took delivery of a purpose built machine to separate conducting particles from non-conducting material using magnetic fields. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H E Espinosa

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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