MPhil PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

King’s College London Department of Surgical & Interventional Engineering

Full scholarship at EPSRC CDT in Advanced Engineering for Personalised Surgery & Intervention

Surgery is recognised as an “indivisible, indispensable part of health care” but the NHS struggles to meet its rising demand. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training

Target Motion Analysis from Doppler sensors

29 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Who can apply? Australian Citizens & Permanent Residents. Industry partner and funding body Saab Australia Defence Trailblazer. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Maclean

Space Domain Awareness Object Characterisation

29 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Who can apply? Australian Citizens & Permanent Residents New Zealand Citizens. Start date No later than 31 March 2024. Industry partner and funding body Silentium Defence Defence Trailblazer. Read more

Supervisor: Dr B Ng

Optimization of Superconducting Devices by Mean of Quantum Field Theories

Supervisor: Dr G Tettamanzi

Who can apply? Australian Citizens & Permanent Residents New Zealand Citizens Citizens of countries within the Five Eyes Alliance (FVEY). Read more

29 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Multistatic and bi-static localisation of underwater targets

29 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Who can apply? Australian Citizens & Permanent Residents. Industry partner and funding body Saab Australia Defence Trailblazer. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Maclean

Representations of illness and/or disability and/or the National Health Service in British film and television

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

This PhD will explore wide-ranging representations, across British film and television history, and across genres, of illness and/or disability and/or the National Health Service. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Newland

Reframing Critical and Socially Engaged Arts Practices from a Creative Health / Health Humanities Perspective

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

The Arts and Health Research Group was created in 2021 in response to the nationwide increase in physical and mental health needs in the UK, particularly amongst the young, the elderly and minority groups, following the Covid pandemic and lockdown. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Cussans

Determining Cyber Attacks by Using Machine Learning to Detect Message Anomalies

Supervisor: Dr A Tomlinson

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

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

Determining and understanding digital exclusion

Supervisor: Dr A Tomlinson

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

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

Constitutional reform and the case for and against codification

Supervisor: Dr C Monaghan

The idea that the United Kingdom’s constitution is under strain is not new, nor is the belief that the accepted norms of the constitution, which are central to the effective operation of our political system in the United Kingdom, are being disregarded by the executive. Read more

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

Arts-led Approaches to Trauma, Memory and Healing

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

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

Supervisor: Dr J Cussans

Addressing the Psycho-Emotional Impact of Climate Anxiety on Children and Young People through Illustration

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

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

Supervisor: Dr J Cussans

Mapping the influence of teachers’ peer relationships on retention in rural schools

Supervisor: Prof A Kington

Despite of attempts to improve the financial and non-financial attractiveness of teaching over nearly two decades, teacher retention is in crisis with approximately 40% of practitioners choosing to leave teaching within the first five years of practice, resulting in the loss of vital professional experience. Read more

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

What Drives Social Pedagogy?

Supervisor: Dr C Solvason

A PhD student can focus upon one of the following topics. Social pedagogy as a solution to the current education crisis. An exploration of the value that pedagogical approaches can offer HE. Read more

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