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healthcare PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 326 healthcare PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare: Generative AI and Trustworthy Machine Learning for Early Disease Detection and Clinical Decision Support

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare by enabling earlier disease detection, improving diagnostic accuracy, and supporting clinical decision-making. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I Ghafir
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Agentic AI and Cognitive Work in Healthcare: Reshaping Cognitive and Emotional Work in Clinical Decision Making

Research Context & Problem. Healthcare is entering a new phase of digital transformation, where AI is evolving beyond decision-support tools into increasingly autonomous agentic systems that generate recommendations, prioritise actions, and shape clinical workflows. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Vann Yaroson
 26 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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The Architecture of Future Healthcare Environments

Healthcare provision is constantly evolving due to advancements in medical science, changes in patient demographics, and emerging challenges. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Shibeika
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Exploring the Design, Implementation, and Impact of Student-Led Clinics in healthcare degree programmes

  Research Group: Healthcare
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/research-subjects/school-of-healthcare. In 2024, the University of Leicester’s School of Healthcare, opened the ‘Jo Williams Clinic’, to students, staff and the local community to improve access to timely physiotherapy assessment and rehabilitation to patients. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D Wright, Dr CCL Carter-Lang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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The role of student social capital in opportunity gaps and awarding gaps in healthcare education

Social capital in educational settings often refers to the network of relationships and shared norms between groups of students which can lead to positive educational outcomes. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof R Stack, Prof SN Nicholson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Multimodal Learning for Human-Centered Healthcare: Motion Understanding and Medical Imaging

Project summary and focus. The project aims to develop multimodal machine learning methods for advanced healthcare data analysis. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr QM Men
 28 February 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Towards Personalised Healthcare: Agentic AI in Federated 6G Wireless Edge Networks

The evolution of wireless networks towards 6G is enabling new paradigms for intelligent, low-latency, and privacy-aware applications. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Usman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Multimodal Federated Learning in Healthcare

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Bhattarai, Prof L Anderson, Dr P Gyawali
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Virtual Reality for Home Medical Treatment: Exploring the User Experience for Patient and Healthcare Staff Training

Home treatment for various diseases offers a cost-effective and patient-centred alternative, but it requires individuals and their caregivers to perform complex procedures safely and consistently. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof V Charisis
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Predicting Frailty Using Integrated Health and Social Data to Support Preventive, Community-Based Care

This project explores how we can better support people to live healthier, more independent lives for longer by predicting frailty earlier using large, real-world datasets. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof H Nazar, Prof N Al-Moubayed
 21 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Computational methods and AI models for medical image analysis: Generative AI, Vision-Language Model, Multimodal Learning and Foundation Model

  Research Group: Digital Healthcare and Medical Imaging Research Group
Are you a prospective PhD student looking to make a significant impact in healthcare AI? Join our dynamic research team as we delve into the transformative potential of cutting-edge technologies like generative models and foundation models. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Z Zhang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Health systems engineering for a new symptom-focused MLTC pathway in remote and rural settings

Aim. This project researches the translation of systems engineering expertise into healthcare practice. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A M Maier
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Improving the involvement of siblings in neonatal and paediatric intensive care environments

  Research Group: Healthcare
Each year 1 in 6 babies born will be admitted to a neonatal unit for specialist care following birth. Many families are unfamiliar with neonatal units and struggle to transition into the parental role in this strange and unfamiliar environment. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr KG Gallagher, Dr S Seaton, Prof JM Manning
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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The psychological burden of chronic spontaneous urticaria from patient and healthcare professional perspectives

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 Supervisor: Prof R Knibb
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-Driven Wireless Communication for Remote Surgery: Enabling Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Healthcare Systems

This doctoral research explores the integration of Artificial Intelligence and next-generation wireless communication to enable remote and robotic surgery with ultra-reliable and low-latency connectivity. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Ahmadi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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