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exercise science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 61 exercise science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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PhD in Trustworthy and Efficient AI Systems

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 Supervisor: Dr BB Buyukates
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Cognitive training in ADHD and autism – from academic attainment to improved mental health

Attention and executive functions are fundamental cognitive functions that enable us to interact effectively with our environment in achieving our behavioural goals. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Mevorach
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Ubiquitin Signalling in Ageing and Age-Related Disease: The Interplay of Genetics, Lifestyle, and Environment

Project Overview. Ageing leads to a progressive decline in essential cellular processes, including protein production, folding, and degradation. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Kevei
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Behavioural Sleep Dysfunction as a Mechanistic Driver of Long COVID Symptom Severity: An Integrative Psychophysiological Investigation (Ref: SSEHS/SF-MFIH26)

Sleep disturbances have emerged as one of the most persistent and debilitating symptoms … Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Faghy, Dr I Hartescu
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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On the simulation of advanced computer networks

  Research Group: University of Bristol High Performance Computing Group
The High Performance Computing (HPC) services of today provide the computational density to perform groundbreaking science. These services facilitate the distribution of a problem space across numerous compute units, yielding performance improvements through parallelising the execution of a workload. Read more
 Supervisor: Mr JJ Jones
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Understanding the Human Spatial Navigation in Complex Urban Environment

SThis research project is centred on the study of human navigation in urban environments, leveraging the latest advancements in VR, robotics, computer vision, and AI technologies. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S-H Yeo, Prof P.I. Jones
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Development of a new model of muscle mechanics – in vivo mechanics of a single muscle

Project Description. The goal of this project is to develop and validate a new phenomenological model of muscle contraction—the Active Spring Muscle Model (ASMM)—through in vivo experiments on single muscles in small animals (mouse/rat). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S-H Yeo
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Development of a new muscle mechanics model - mechanics of lower limb muscles during gait

The goal of this project is to build a new model of muscle contraction called the Active Spring Muscle Model (ASMM) and to verify the model in human gait mechanics. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S-H Yeo
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Developing a Finite Element Based Model for Pellet Relocation in Nuclear Reactor Fuel (HAYNEST_U26EMPAMENTUM)

Primary supervisor - Dr Thomas Anthony Haynes.  Pellet-clad interaction (PCI) is a complicated phenomenon, relatively poorly captured in current commercial fuel performance codes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr TH Haynes
 2 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Implementing AI‑Enabled Wearable Technologies for Symptom Prediction in Parkinson’s Disease: A PD‑LIFE Project

  Research Group: Intelligent Systems
OPEN FOR UK AND REPUBLIC OF IRELAND STUDENTS ONLY. . Applications are invited by Ulster University for a PhD in Parkinson’s disease research as part of a cohort of nine linked PhD studentship positions across Ireland in the exciting PD-LIFE project. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Connolly, Prof J Condell
 3 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Identifying the importance of age, sex, ethnicity and obesity in establishing cardiovascular-respiratory reflex responses to heat exposure

One of the major threats to human health is climate change and its association with increased exposure to extreme heat. An important effect is an increase in the frequency, duration and intensity of heatwave exposure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A H Holmes, Dr J Welch, Dr A Coney
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Intelligent Avatars for Collaborative and Rehabilitative Extended Realities

This project explores the development of intelligent, embodied avatars in Extended Reality (XR) environments, aimed at supporting collaborative and rehabilitative tasks. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Francik
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Examining the mechanisms that cause cardiovascular disease by studying the heart or adipose tissue

Heart failure has a serious impact on our society and once diagnosed has a poor survival rate. In the United Kingdom, there are about 1.5 million people living with the after-effects of a heart attack. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Boateng
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Revising value sets for health economic evaluation: exploring the criteria required to justify updating population value sets using the ICECAP-A capability wellbeing measure as a case study

Health economic evaluations have become an important tool to guide the cost-effectiveness of health and care resource allocation decision making in the 21st century. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Mitchell, Prof J Coast
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Unravelling Sex-Specific Mechanisms Underpinning Long COVID: An Integrative Epidemiological and Biomarker-Based Investigation of Women’s Disproportionate Burden (Ref: SSEHS/SF-MF26-2)

Long COVID (post‑COVID condition) is a chronic, multisystem disease state that persists for ≥3 months after SARS‑CoV‑2 infection and impairs dailyfunctioning for many sufferers. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Faghy, Dr E O'Donnell
 18 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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