human PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

In this project the PhD research student needs to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the emerging semi-supervised and unsupervised deep learning networks for analysing videos.

Human Motion Analysis using Computer Vision and Deep Learning

Kingston University
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing

Dr D Makris

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Analysis of human motion is implicitly or explicitly required in many areas such as healthcare, sports, video surveillance, body-based user interfaces and computer games and animation.

Automatic micro and mixed emotion recognition system for Human-robot interaction (Advert Reference: SF18/CIS/MISTRY)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Dr K Mistry

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Facial expression is one of the most effective means for human beings to indicate emotions, feelings and intentions. Literature shows that facial expression contributed to about 55% effect of overall emotion expression during social interactions.

Financial Capital, Human Capital, and Self-Employment in the UK

Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Business School

Dr Z Wu

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Why become self-employed and what are the key factors causing the utility from self-employment to exceed that from paid employment? Mark Taylor (1996) has shown that higher expected earnings in self-employment relative to paid employment are a major attraction.

Regulation of T cell immunity in human barrier tissues - PhD position in Munich

Technical University of Munich
Center for translational cancer research

Prof C Zielinski

Application Deadline: 15 December 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of the most renowned Universities in Europe. The research group is located in a prestigious newly built research building, TranslaTUM, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary translational research.

(MRC DTP) RAC1 mutations in human neurodevelopmental syndrome: from mechanism to treatment

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr T Millard, Dr S Banka, Dr S Woolner, Prof V Allan

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

RAC1 regulates a variety of essential cellular functions1,2,3. We recently showed that it is critical for normal human development by discovering a novel neurodevelopmental syndrome caused by mutations in the RAC1 gene4.

A state-of-the-art effector trap to identify secreted effectors of tissue invasion in the major fungal pathogen of human lungs

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof E Bignell, Dr J Amich, Dr A Reid

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The often-fatal fungal lung disease invasive aspergillosis (IA) has claimed more than 8 million human lives since its emergence ~ 40 years ago.

Building the human endometrium in vitro: The role of macrophages in receptive and decidual endometrium to optimise reproductive health

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr E Mann, Dr Peter Ruane, Prof J Aplin, Dr L Mohiyiddeen

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The human endometrium is a highly dynamic tissue that rapidly generates over ~20 days and differentiates to form a uterus lining receptive to embryo implantation, further transforming into decidua to support embryonic development, or breaking down before regenerating a few days later.

Metals and host-pathogen interactions: the role of metal handling systems in the human gastrointestinal pathogen Campylobacter jejuni

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr J Cavet, Dr D Linton

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Campylobacter jejuni is a globally important food-borne pathogen causing an estimated 400-500 million cases of acute human gastroenteritis each year.

The contribution of human mast cells to innate functional memory in anti-bacterial responses

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof S Bulfone-Paus, Dr J Cavet

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

In the recent years, it has become evident that after infection or vaccination innate immune cells have the capacity to adapt and modify the nature of their activities following a single immunostimulatory challenge and display a long-term functional memory.