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PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 590 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships added in the last month

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Managing Presenteeism and Sickness Absence in UK Higher Education: A Mixed‑Methods Study

Updated: 10 July 2026 
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are central to UK social and economic sustainability, contributing >£130bn annually and employing >440,000 people. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Whysall
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Leveraging Situation Awareness for Human-AI Collaboration to Achieve Operational Excellence in SMEs

Updated: 10 July 2026 
Small and medium‑sized enterprises (SMEs) increasingly rely on digital technologies and AI‑enabled systems to improve efficiency, resilience, and decision‑making. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Yeong
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Involution-Driven Competition and Global Production System Resilience: Evidence from the Electric Vehicle Industry

Updated: 10 July 2026 
In recent years, the global electric vehicle (EV) industry has experienced intense price-based rivalry, rapid capacity expansion, and aggressive cost compression, particularly among Chinese manufacturers. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Shan
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Investigating the influences and drivers of gambling participation and associated harms

Updated: 10 July 2026 
Gambling participation has expanded significantly in recent decades, driven by digital platforms, targeted marketing, and shifting social norms (Wardle et al., 2024). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr O Adeniyi
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Impact of Climate Change on Firm Performance and Asset Pricing: Machine Learning and Text-Based Analyses

Updated: 10 July 2026 
Climate change has become a central strategic and regulatory issue for firms worldwide (Barnett, 2023). Firms increasingly disclose climate-related information in annual, sustainability, and integrated reports, reflecting their climate awareness, risk perceptions, and transition strategies (Acheampong et al., 2025). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr T Nguyen
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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IFRS Sustainability Reporting Standards and corporate financial policies

Updated: 10 July 2026 
The increasing demand for transparency, comparability, reliability and decision usefulness of sustainability information has led to the development of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) S1 and S2. Read more
 Supervisor: Assoc Prof Y W Wang
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Human-AI Decision Making: Trust, Bias and Organisational Accountability

Updated: 10 July 2026 
As AI tools become routine in finance, healthcare, logistics, recruitment, performance evaluation and public services, organisations face a compound challenge. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Nwagboso
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Hexa‑Helix Coopetition for Sustainable Destination Management

Updated: 10 July 2026 
Tourism remains one of the world’s most economically significant sectors, driving employment, investment and local development across diverse regions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Abdullah
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Gendered Identity Work in Marketing Professions: Performance, Authenticity, and Career Trajectories in the Digital Age

Updated: 10 July 2026 
As marketing work in emerging economies becomes digitalized, performance-oriented, and visibility-driven, it is crucial for marketing research to understand how marketers build and perform gendered identities to provide innovative products and services, meet various stakeholders expectations and progress their careers (Alzahrani et al., 2026; Saxena, 2025; Varma et al., 2023). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr B Afreh
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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FDI in Africa and the role of Formal and Informal Institutions

Updated: 10 July 2026 
In recognition of the benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI) – an important channel through which resources, human capital and technological progress are transferred between countries – understanding the determining factors of FDI is an important issue from a developing country perspective. Read more
 Supervisor: Ms M Stack
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Emotional Labour in Project Delivery Teams

Updated: 10 July 2026 
While project management scholarship has traditionally emphasised technical coordination, scheduling and risk, comparatively little attention has been paid to the relational and affective dimensions of project work. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Nwagboso
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Developing climate change solutions with simulation in the fashion industry

Updated: 10 July 2026 
Climate change is a global threat to humanity today. Many models have been developed to predict global warming and Greenhouse gas emissions, with one example being the EN-ROADS climate simulator. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Takou
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Context, Informality and the Practice of Project Management

Updated: 10 July 2026 
Project management scholarship has long assumed a relatively stable institutional backdrop around formal structures, codified methods, and predictable operating environments. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Nwagboso
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Building Antifragile Supply Chains: Leveraging Digital Technologies to Transform Disruptions into Opportunities

Updated: 10 July 2026 
Global supply chains are increasingly exposed to complex disruptions, including pandemics, geopolitical tensions, climate-related events, and technological change. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Taheri, Prof A Takou
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI, Community Data and Public Decision-Making: Turning Lived Experience into Trustworthy Evidence

Updated: 10 July 2026 
Public decision-making is increasingly shaped by data. Yet the evidence used by health systems, local authorities, and other public bodies is still dominated by administrative data designed for performance monitoring, compliance, and cost control. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D King
 1 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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