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FinTech, Financial Innovation and Strategic Value Creation

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

PhD in International Business

This PhD research opportunity is designed for candidates interested in how financial technology, digital finance, and financial innovation are reshaping value creation in global business. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Forget

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

AI Safety and Ethical Guardrail Design for Autonomous Systems

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

As autonomous and non-deterministic AI systems become more powerful, organizations need stronger real-time governance, observability, and safety mechanisms. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Social Innovation in Urban Development: Designing Win-Win-Win Negotiation Tools

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Large-scale urban development projects often involve competing economic, political, environmental, and social interests. Traditional negotiation models may fail when developers, public authorities, local residents, and community stakeholders define value differently. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Water Stewardship as Strategy: Designing Corporate Resource-Risk Frameworks

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Water scarcity is becoming a strategic constraint for many organizations, especially in sectors where production, infrastructure, agriculture, energy, or digital operations depend on reliable water access. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Adaptive Go-To-Market Strategy: Designing AI-Driven Market Execution Architectures

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Traditional go-to-market strategies can be too slow for markets shaped by rapid demand shifts, digital platforms, AI-enabled buying behavior, and changing customer expectations. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Board-Level Technology Oversight: Designing Governance Tools for Emerging Technologies

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Many boards and senior leadership teams are expected to oversee digital transformation, AI adoption, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies without always having the tools to assess strategic value, risk, or implementation readiness. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Distributed Leadership: Designing Structures for High-Performance Hybrid Teams

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Hybrid and decentralized work environments challenge traditional leadership models. Top-down management structures often struggle to support fast decision-making, engagement, accountability, and ownership when teams are distributed across locations, time zones, and digital platforms. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Digital Product Passports: Designing Frameworks for Value Chain Transparency

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Organizations are facing growing pressure to provide transparent, verifiable, and lifecycle-based information about products, sourcing, sustainability, and supply chains. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Empathy-by-Design: Designing Human-Centered Models for AI-Enhanced Service

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Automation can increase speed and efficiency, but it can also weaken human connection, trust, and customer satisfaction. This DBA research opportunity focuses on the design of human-centered service models that integrate AI while preserving empathy, trust, and meaningful customer engagement. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Circular IT: Designing Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Strategies

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

The rapid growth of AI, cloud computing, and data-intensive business models is increasing the environmental footprint of digital infrastructure. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Corporate Data Valuation: Designing Asset Management Frameworks for the AI-Native Firm

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Organizations often describe data as a strategic asset, yet many struggle to measure its actual value, prioritize data investments, or connect data resources to business performance. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Skills-First Talent Ecosystems: Designing Adaptive Workforce Orchestration Models

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Rapid technological change is challenging traditional approaches to job design, hiring, and workforce planning. This DBA research opportunity focuses on the design of skills-first talent ecosystems that allow organizations to identify, mobilize, and redeploy capabilities in real time. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Digital Trust: Designing Corporate Protocols for Disinformation Security

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

AI-generated content, synthetic media, deepfakes, and automated misinformation are creating new risks for organizations. This DBA research opportunity focuses on the design of organizational protocols for disinformation security, digital trust, and corporate reputation protection. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Regenerative Finance: Designing Models for Sustainable Value Creation

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Sustainability is increasingly moving from reporting and compliance toward measurable impact, resource regeneration, and long-term value creation. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Supply Chain Sovereignty: Designing Resilience Frameworks for Geopolitical Risk

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Global supply chains are increasingly exposed to geopolitical fragmentation, trade disputes, tariffs, resource constraints, and regional instability. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

The Autonomous Enterprise: Designing Governance Protocols for Agentic AI

Franklin Hudson - The International School of Management

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

As artificial intelligence moves from decision support to autonomous action, organizations face new questions of accountability, trust, control, and human oversight. Read more

Supervisor: Prof B Kölmel

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Fibre-Polymer Composites for Structural Applications

University of Birmingham

Department of Civil Engineering

Fiber-polymer composites are an innovative and sustainable alternative in construction due to their light weight, excellent fatigue resistance and durability. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Liu

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Electrochemical Optimisation for Waste-to-Value Conversion of Spent Coffee Grounds

University of Birmingham

School of Pharmacy

Spent coffee grounds (SCG) are produced at scale by cafés, roasters, offices and households, yet are commonly downcycled or go to landfill. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Jones, Dr Ilija Rasovic, Dr K Goode

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self Driving Lab for the investigation of emulsion

University of Birmingham

School of Chemical Engineering

Most chemical products consist of multiple compounds that are formulated together, of which the development process is iterative, laborious, and complex. Read more

Supervisor: Prof Z Zhang

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Study of Hydrodynamics and Interfacial Electrochemistry in Next-Generation Membraneless Fuel Cells

The University of Manchester

Department of Chemical Engineering

Current fuel-cell technologies suffer from major limitations associated with the use of polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs), including high material cost, fuel crossover, membrane degradation, water management challenges, and lack of long-term operational stability. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Anastasiou, Dr M Perez-Page

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Control-Oriented Modelling and Predictive Quality Regulation for Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing

The University of Manchester

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Large-scale additive manufacturing (AM) is a key enabler of sustainable, decentralised production for aerospace, renewable energy and infrastructure components. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Qian

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Physics-Embedded Perception and Predictive Modelling for Resilient Human-Robot Collaboration

The University of Manchester

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Human-robot collaboration (HRC) is becoming central to manufacturing, healthcare and service robotics, where robots must share dynamic spaces with human partners. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Qian

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Scaling Generalization: Autonomous Intelligent Agents for the ARC-AGI Challenge

University of York

Department of Computer Science

Introduction. You will have complete freedom to define your research direction within the broader AI landscape. from core methods to applications, and from theory to systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Banerjee

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Hybrid Cellulose–Metal Foam Phase Change Composites for Thermal Energy Storage (LANDINIS_U27EMP)

University of East Anglia

School of Engineering

Primary Supervisor. Dr. Stefano Landini. Phase change materials (PCMs) offer compact, temperature-targeted thermal energy storage but suffer from leakage during melting, low thermal conductivity and limited mechanical robustness, which restrict their integration into practical systems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Landini

31 March 2027 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Rheology of Dense Suspensions of Elongated Particles

University of Edinburgh

School of Engineering

This PhD tackles a fundamental open problem in soft matter physics that sits at the heart of multiple industries and natural systems. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Ness, Dr G Melaugh

1 March 2027 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Modelling reactive two-phase flow in porous media

Tel Aviv University

School of Mechanical Engineering

Research Group: Subsurface Reservoir Flow Group (SRFG)

PhD/Postdoctoral Position in Reactive Multiphase Flow and CO₂ Mineralization for Direct Air Capture. The Subsurface Reservoir flow group in Tel Aviv University led by Prof. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Rabinovich

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

(SATURN CDT) The use of local contact impedance spectroscopy to monitor radiation damage in ceramics and glasses

University of Sheffield

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

We are offering an exciting PhD opportunity to develop and validate a novel rapid, non-destructive technique for detecting and quantifying radiation-induced defects in ceramics, glasses, and other functional materials. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Dean, Dr C Thorpe, Prof D Sinclair, Prof R Hand

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

4-year fully funded PhD scholarship in Quantum Optimisation Techniques for Telecommunication Networks

University College London

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Duration of study. Full time - 4 years fixed term. Starting date. Available from October 2025. Application deadline. No closing date, the position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. Read more

Supervisor: Assoc Prof AR Ruocco

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Decision-Theoretic Shared-Autonomy Allocation under Communication Uncertainty for Safety-Critical Remote Robotics

Lancaster University

School of Computing & Communications

Research Group: Engineering

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship in the School of Engineering, Lancaster University, hosted by the Data Science and AI Institute (DSAIL) and funded by an EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award. Read more

Supervisors: Dr ZW Wang, Prof Q Ni

31 August 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Data-Driven Digital Twins for Predicting Climate-Driven Deterioration in UK Bridges

University of Edinburgh

School of Engineering

This PhD project will develop data-driven digital twin methods for predicting climate-driven deterioration in UK bridges. The project will combine civil engineering, machine learning, statistical modelling, and climate resilience to address an important challenge in infrastructure asset management. Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Yardim

30 May 2027 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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