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security PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 290 security PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Creepy Office: Using speculative design methods to explore privacy, security and ethical considerations for connected workplaces

  Research Group: Cybersecurity, Privacy and HCC Research Section
Project Description. Background . Our workplaces are becoming increasingly connected. While this enables remote work and can improve accessibility, it can also introduce potential issues related to workplace surveillance. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Stawarz, Dr S Gould, Dr A Ramirez Gomez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Nottingham BBSRC DLA Programme: AI-Enabled Hydroponic Chickpea Production in Controlled Environment Agriculture – Optimising Growth, Resource Efficiency and Food-Grade Production (Industry associated project)

Thanks to £14m of funding awarded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the University of Nottingham working in partnership with Nottingham Trent University are offering fully funded innovative four-year cohort-based training in frontier science. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Gill
 30 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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The Meta-Sharing Epidemic: Assessing and Mitigating the Multi-Dimensional Risks of Social Media Hyper-Sharing

From daily personal routines to sensitive workplace settings, modern society is driven by an absolute habit. if it happens, it must be digitally shared. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Pattnaik
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Public Sector Governance and Financial Resilience in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming organisational operations across both private and public sectors. In the public sector, AI offers significant opportunities to improve efficiency, service delivery, and data-driven decision-making. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Nguyen
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Extreme Conditions Chemistry of Lanthanide and Actinide Metals and Oxides

About the Project. Lanthanide and actinide materials play a central role in nuclear science and technology, underpinning nuclear fuels, structural materials, and long-term waste forms. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Laniel
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
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Research opportunities in the Department of Politics

The Department of Politics is at the heart of current thinking, research and debate, and home to a prestigious, lively and international community. Read more
 Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding  Social Sciences Research Programme
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What differs? - Deep Learning for Anomaly and Out of Distribution Detection in Computer Vision (Visual AI) Applications

Anomaly detection, and the synonymous topics of novelty and out-of-distribution detection, addresses the computer vision ("visual AI") challenge of automatically identifying outliers within the scene or image based on their appearance, motion or behaviour characteristics. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof T P Breckon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Agentic, Federated and Explainable Cybersecurity for 6G-Enabled Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) operating over emerging 6G networks rely on tightly coupled sensing, control, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Pooranian
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Mitigation in artificial Intelligence life cycle

We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to join our innovative research project focused on developing cutting-edge solutions for cybersecurity risk assessment and mitigation in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) life cycle. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Arshad
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Advanced Simultaneous Wireless Information and PowerTransfer (SWIPT) systems for future generation IoT systems

In the upcoming era of sixth-generation (6G) networks, it is predicted that a wide range of low-power devices will have the capability to efficiently sense their surroundings and transmit data on a large scale. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C H See, Dr NOP Ojaroudi Parchin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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The Strategic Logic of Nuclear Delivery System Diversification

Why do nuclear-armed states choose to diversify or narrow their arsenal of delivery systems? This question lies at the heart of nuclear strategy, yet remains surprisingly underexplored in the academic literature. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J O'Mahoney
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Federated Unlearning for Neuro-Symbolic Autonomous Driving

Federated learning (FL) enables vehicles to collaborate on model training without sharing raw data, while neuro-symbolic AI combines perception from neural networks with rule-based reasoning for compliance and explainability. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Dr KB Babaagba
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI-generated content detection and localization

Supervisory Team. Dr. Zhiwu Huang. In a world increasingly dominated by AI-generated content, this PhD project will research advanced AI methodologies for detection and localization of manipulated imagery. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Huang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Electromagnetic Time Reversal (EMTR) for Partial Discharge localisation in complex networks using only one observation point

This project aims to investigate the innovative Electromagnetic Time reversal (EMTR) theory to localise partial discharges (PDs), using one observation point, in complex network topologies. . Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Ragusa
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.

The electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. gives engineers the tools to transform the world by leading trailblazing research that expands and creates knowledge. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Research Programme

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