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retail PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
We have 15 retail PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
Assessing the Impact of Digital Technologies on Retail Consumer Decision-Making Among Underserved Groups
Research Group:
School of Management
This PhD project investigates the influence of digital technologies on consumer decision-making in the retail sector, with a primary focus on underserved groups, e.g., older individuals, people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds and people with limited qualifications or educational attainment. Read more
Retailer operations’ simulation-optimisation for perishable food waste management
Food waste and loss happen all along the food supply chain. Food wasted in retail, food-service and consumer stages accounts for approx. Read more
Virtual Engagement: The Impact of Avatars on Metaverse Retailing
Research Group:
School of Management
In 2020, the Metaverse was valued globally at US$487 billion, encompassing gaming, social media, live entertainment, and gaming/Virtual reality (VR)/Augmented reality (AR) (Bloomberg, 2021), with projections to exceed US$1 trillion by 2030 (Bloomberg, 2022; Precedence Research, 2022). Read more
Modelling and optimisation of infrastructure for the decarbonisation of transport in rural areas
The decarbonisation of the transport sector (primarily through electrification) has become one of the priorities of most advanced economies nowadays, including the UK, in the fight against climate change. Read more
Human Activity Recognition using Self-supervised learning AI Architectures for Wearable Accelerometers in Free-Living Scenarios
The Leicester Lifestyle and Health Research Group (LLHRG). Project Highlights: . 1. Development of AI for automated labelling of free-living data from wearable accelerometers according to learnt behavioural profiles. Read more
Data-Knowledge Integrated AI Decision Framework for Optimizing IoT Connected Building Assets
Research Group:
Computing
Climate change necessitates improved energy efficiency. Refrigeration in the retail sector and in building air conditioning systems is a major energy consumer. Read more
Systems for effective and sustainable resource management at hospitals
Supervisory team. Prof Ian Williams, Prof Peter Shaw. Hospital waste management is an important environmental and public safety issue, due to the infectious, toxic or hazardous nature of the waste. Read more
Nature-based urban renewal: the case of Nottingham’s Green Heart
Project ID. SS_7. Theme: Safety and Sustainability. The ambition of this PhD scholarship is to understand how nature-based urban recovery processes emerge in ordinary cities, and what their contribution is to sustainable and liveable urban futures with potential co-benefits for people, places and nature. Read more
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Privacy in DeFi: Balancing Transparency and Confidentiality
The project. Transparency is a cornerstone of DeFi, but it comes at the cost of privacy. This research aims to address privacy concerns by exploring methods that could enhance confidentiality without sacrificing the openness DeFi protocols rely on. Read more
PhDs in Finance, Accounting and Business Systems
Sheffield Business School. Sheffield Business School (SBS) is accredited by the AACSB, placing us within the top 5% of business schools globally. Read more
Industry hopping and business transformation for non-data driven businesses
Introduction. The landscape of global business has been profoundly reshaped over the last decade by Data Driven Businesses (DDBs) such as Airbnb, Amazon, Alibaba, Uber, Didi, and Grab. Read more
Data Quality and Cleaning in Big Data
The proliferation of Big Data analytics is developing ever more sophisticated models for intelligent data-driven insight and decision making in business and in other areas such as health and social care. Read more
Improving city mobility with AI
The ability to move around a city and access resources (e.g. leisure, retail, health or eduction) has a massive impact on the quality of life for residents. Read more
Corporate Governance and Artificial Intelligence
This PhD project will take a multidimensional approach to exploring how Corporate Governance responds to the fast-changing and broad application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the organisational levels. Read more
Developing the next generation of pedestrian behaviour models for revival of high streets and sustainable transport [Self-Funded Students Only]
Research Group:
Data and Knowledge Engineering
Modelling the behaviour of pedestrians in city centres is of practical importance not only for sustainable transport (reducing reliance on motor vehicles addresses issues of carbon emissions, congestion and health) but also can help inform planning for town centres in a post-COVID world. Read more
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