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planning PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
We have 272 planning PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
Urban Green Infrastructure Planning for Connectivity, Sustainability, biodiversity and multifunctionality
Climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the most pressing urban challenges of the Anthropocene. Read more
Barriers and Opportunities of Regional Planning Collaboration in China: Mapping Subjective Landscape in Implementing Integrated Watershed Revitalisation in the Yangtze River Delta
The research aims to develop a holistic set of policy recommendations to eliminate the identified barriers and improve regional collaboration implementation in China, with a concrete example of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Read more
Engaging the public in sustainable strategic planning through serious games
The UK requires major changes to public policy and planning of cities to address the challenges we face. meeting Net Zero emissions targets by 2050, revitalizing high streets in economic decline, addressing a crisis of public health and supporting equitable well-being for all while we do so. Read more
Advanced robot motion planning in task-constrained applications
Project description (max 700 words). The research project focuses on motion planning for advanced robotic systems, with a main attention on two complementary strands. Read more
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PhD in Aerospace Engineering - Optimisation of multi-objective decision algorithms in safe, sustainable and environmentally friendly forestry mission-planning.
Start date. 01 April 2025. Scotland’s forests are a critical national resource, and the management of this asset requires strategic planning for both long-term sustainability and efficiency in processing. Read more
Advance care planning conversations in care home, understanding resident and family experiences.
Highlights. Demographic predictions indicate increasing numbers of older people will reach end of life in care homes making effective use of advance care planning conversations essential. Read more
Improving community engagement in renewable energy developments
Many of UK’s renewal energy developments that obtain government sanctioned approval to proceed, but not ’community approval’, are compounding the NIMBY oppositions that often lead to protracted conflicts between communities, industries and governments which in turn results in significant social, political and economic costs to the interests of all concerned. Read more
Optimizing Bespoke Concrete Plant Layouts for Sustainable Offsite Construction: A Lean-BIM Integrated Framework (SF24/EE/ABE/SULIMAN)
As highlighted in the 2022 UK Guidance Note on Carbon Net Zero and sustainability in construction, the construction industry generates over 60% of the waste produced in the UK. Read more
Quantum computing for large-scale stochastic optimisation in energy system planning
This project is part of the EPSRC Center for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk/). Read more
AI planning and parameterized complexity
AI planning is a famous methodology that allows autonomous agents (computers or robots) to design plans for achieving their goals. Read more
Language, Policy and Planning
This PhD is lead by the Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit in the School of Welsh. Projects include international research on language policy and planning, language rights and politics, language variation and change, sociolinguistics of bilingualism and multilingualism, and sociology of language. Read more
Planning to Learn, and Learning to Plan
Existing cognitive models of planning (e.g., in games like chess) tend to pre-specify possible planning models as anchored to classic algorithms, such as MDP solvers and stochastic search. Read more
Integrated Food and Water Planning for the Blue Nile Basin
Providing food security is one of this century’s most important challenges and can be affected by a range of factors, including global crises such as pandemics… Read more
Human-in-the-loop Planning and Control for Multi-Robot Systems
Traditional paradigms of shared control have heavily relied on humans to provide precise and accurate inputs to robots, or they have reduced the role of humans in providing supervisory task specifications. Read more
Autonomous Electric Vehicles Fleet Management and Charging Station Planning in Future Power Grids
Autonomous driving is believed to be a disruptive technology that will transform the transportation system in the near future. This research focuses on the AEV fleet management and EV charging station planning problems. Read more