user PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research areas. Complex systems; Formal specification languages, methods and tools; Programming Languages and Systems; Software engineering;.

Prediction of Service Demand and Quality of Experience using Deep Learning for Healthcare

Glasgow Caledonian University
School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Dr Y Zhang, Prof H Tianfield

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

SCEBE-19-010. With the explosive growth of services on the Internet, the number of choices is overwhelming. Traditionally services are passively searched by users.

Human-Centred Design and User Experience for Augmented Reality in Education (HCI-ARETE) - to start 1 November 2019

University of Leicester
Department of Informatics

Prof E Law

Application Deadline: 15 October 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Project Description. Augmented Reality (AR) refers to the real-time digital overlay of information over physical elements. This PhD project will be realised in the context of the EU H2020 project ARETE focusing on AR in education.

The role of trust in information systems use (SF19/MOS/SKOUMPOPOULOU2)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Business and Law

Dr D Skoumpopoulou

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Information Systems (IS) when implemented successfully can help organisations to be more effective and efficient while they can help them to improve their performance by speeding up decision making.

Interactive Sequential Pattern Mining of Web Logs

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science

Dr M Vigo

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Sequential pattern mining algorithms are extremely useful to identify the most salient patterns in sequences of events [1,2]. These events can be transactions on a database or time-series data.

(MRC DTP) That tablet gave me a terrible headache (SnomedCT: 25064002)

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Prof W Dixon, Dr G Nenadic, Dr C Jay

Application Deadline: 15 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Background. Healthcare mobile applications are used increasingly for self-reporting patient experience on living with (chronic) diseases and associated treatment.

Adaptive Learning in brain-robot interactions

University of Sheffield
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Dr M Arvaneh

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

This project aims to develop a non-invasive brain-machine interface (BMI) that allows a user to direct a semi-autonomous robot to perform different tasks through brain signals.

Users as Change Agents: User Driven Business Model Innovation For Positive Energy Districts

Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Business School

Dr K Galanakis

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Objectives. Identify exploitation opportunities comparing new venture propositions between people living and working in Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) and those that do not, by considering differences in energy consumption, its antecedent decision-making factors and behaviour change over time.

Multi-user Massive MIMO with imperfect channel information

University of York
Department of Electronic Engineering

Research Group: Communication Technologies

Prof A Burr

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Multi-user (MU) MIMO (of which Massive MIMO is an example) provides a means of serving multiple users in the same spectrum - however on the downlink MU-MIMO requires accurate channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter.

Intelligent Mobile Robotics System

Brunel University London
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Dr M Abbod

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research on a six legged mobile robotics which is currently used in the research labs. The robot can be equipped with sonar sensors, vision system and communication system.