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social computing PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 81 social computing PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Experience Design and Digital Creativity

Applications are invited for project proposals addressing the topic of experience design and digital media technologies. This is an opportunity to build on existing skills in digital creative practice and/or user experience (UX), and to develop these interests within a PhD project. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr IH Helgason
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Controlling and editing mitochondrial populations at the single cell scale

Student Background. Bioinformatics, Theoretical Physics, Mathematics/Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Computing (Biological knowledge not required). Read more
 Supervisor: Prof N Jones
 29 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Science Research Opportunities at the University of East Anglia

The Faculty of Science is part of Norwich Research Park, one of Europe's leading research centres conducting cutting-edge multidisciplinary research with an annual research spend of over £130 million. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Opportunities
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Embodied AI for Wellbeing: Exploring the Opportunities for Social Robots

Although therapeutic approaches such as cognitive-behavioural therapy and mindfulness programmes are effective, according to study reported by Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, systemic barriers, including resource shortages, delivery variability, and long waiting times, limit accessibility and consistency (Peipert, et al., 2022). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr ES Sobolewska, Dr CS Strathearn
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Multimodal Assessment of Falls Risk/ Movement Performance in Older Adults Using Wearable Sensor Technologies and Visual Computing Techniques

Falls are a leading cause of severe injury and loss of functional independence among older adults. Performance measures derived from gait and postural assessments offer valuable insight into an individual’s movement quality (and hence their falls risk). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Buckley, Prof R Qahwaji, Dr R Jaber
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Human Factors and Behaviour Change Interventions for Cybersecurity

Cyberattacks are increasingly designed to exploit and manipulate users’ behaviour rather than targeting purely technical vulnerabilities. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JPV Vargheese, Dr D Brazier
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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LogicLLMs: Empowering LLMs with Logical Reasoning

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Ogunniye, Dr F Jovan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Quantum-Enhanced Learning of the Precursors to Extreme Events

This PhD will develop quantum machine-learning methods to forecast extreme environmental hazards such as storms, floods, and wildfires. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Brearley
 9 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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AI-based interventions for mental health conditions

PhD in Computer Science at Durham University, UK. AI-based interventions for mental health conditions. This project will aim to explore, design, develop and evaluate AI-based interventions for mental health conditions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Hadzidedic
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Northeastern University London Fully Funded PhD Scholarship in Computer Science: Reliable Quantum Statistics

As part of a major investment, Northeastern University London (NU London) has multiple, fully-funded PhD studentships available to accelerate its interdisciplinary research in the humanities, social sciences and digital sciences. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof O Simeone, Dr CA Perez Delgado
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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What role for the voluntary and community sector in promoting community resilience?

The recently published UK Government Resilience Framework (Cabinet Office 2022) renews a commitment to a “whole-of-society” approach where strengthened partnerships with the voluntary and community sector (VCS) are seen as an important way of protecting communities. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Coates
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Associative identity projection on avatars used in communication

As AI agents are used quite often to represent a human, avatars are created for social and work purposes. They are restricted in their behaviour and communication in work settings. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Kiruthika
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Robots Dancing to Salsa

This project considers the social partnered aspects of salsa danced to salsa music, and how a pair of robots could dance to this style of music. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CG Goddard, Dr ES Sobolewska
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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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
 Supervisors: Dr T Peng, Assoc Prof A Lawson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Fair-LLMs: Accelerating Fairness-Aware, Privacy-Preserving LLMs for Health Research

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Ogunniye, Dr B Bhattarai
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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