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writing PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
We have 654 writing PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at UEA
We are home to prize-winning scholars and translators of literature and drama from all periods and are famous as a pioneering centre for creative writing. Read more
Creative Writing - Postgraduate Research Opportunities
Work with our team of award-winning authors to develop your creative practice and its critique. Read more
Creative Writing PhD
The PhD in Creative Writing at King’s is a practice-led course, incorporating taught elements and aspects of professional development. Read more
The Wheeler History of Travel Writing PhD Scholarship
As part of the Wheeler History of Travel Writing Programme, the Department of History is inviting applications for up to two PhD studentships, starting in October 2025, in the History of Travel and Travel Writing. Read more
Identifying artificially generated creative writing
Large Language Models (LLM) have found many uses, such as chatbots for customer support or helping to debug code. However, these models have also been misused, for example by generating fake news stories to spread misinformation. Read more
Contemporary anglophone writing from South Asia and Southeast Asia, with a focus on postcolonial literatures in the new millennium
The PhD project focuses on. Postcolonial and world literary approaches to Southeast Asian literatures in English. Publishing networks and publishing cultures in Southeast Asia. Read more
Creative and Critical Writing
This PhD pathway offers students the opportunity to produce an original piece or collection of creative work as well as a thorough analysis of the work. Read more
Reading, writing and molecular switching in the DNA-damage response
The proposed project revolves around a fascinating and unique class of regulatory proteins that seem to function as molecular shape-shifters, able to adopt a number of distinct structural forms each tailored to functionally specific downstream signalling processes. Read more
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Deep Uncertainty Quantification in eXplainable Deep Learning – Moving Towards Explaining and Gaining Trust in Black Box Models
The project will develop a theory and methodology of eXplainable Deep Learning (XDL) to make deep learning models in autonomous systems more interpretable and trustworthy. Read more
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Understanding ethnic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among young people in the UK
We invite applications for a four year funded PhD, based in the Department of Sociology/ Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity at The University of Manchester. Read more
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] High-resolution modelling and geo-visualisation of socio-spatial inequalities in infrastructure access in England
The PhD project aims to provide a more robust approach to differentiate socio-spatial inequalities, in terms of area type and different socio-demographic group, in access to infrastructural amenities and services across multiple spatial scales in England. Read more
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] Down by the river: reconstructing environmental conditions at two stone age archaeological sites along the former Tsondab River in the Namib Sand Sea.
This PhD project is part of a wider research programme that seeks to highlight the importance of landscape archaeological sites in the northern Namib Sand Sea, to balance the archaeological narrative that remains dominated by the cave and rock shelter sites at the coast in South Africa and in the interior of the subcontinent. Read more
The Role of Literature and Creative Practice in Acclimating Urban Dwellers to Nearby Nature
Project ID. SS_105. Theme. Safety and Sustainability . This project investigates the role of literature and creative practice in increasing people’s connection to nature near urban development. Read more
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Multimodal Foundational Models for Neuroimages
Dr. Jingyuan Sun (Assistant Professor) will be co-supervising this area with Prof. Goran Nenadic (Full Professor). This research integrates multimodal neuroimaging data into a unified foundational model to capture the relationships among neural activities and brain structure across different modalities. Read more
Source-specific quantification of ammonia emissions
Background. Ammonia (NH3) has an ever-growing influence on air pollution in the UK and worldwide with numerous considerable impacts such as the formation of secondary particles and nitrogen deposition. Read more