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We have 3,359 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Smart-Textile-Based Sensors for Epidermal Electronics

Wearable electronic devices have sparked tremendous attention in recent years, owing to their wide range of possible applications, which include artificial organs, electronic skin, and healthcare monitoring, as well as soft robotics with arbitrary surface forms. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr LM Manjakkal, Dr K Goh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Integration of Advanced Multi-Modal Sensors into ROV Platforms for Autonomous Marine Pollution Monitoring

The proposed PhD will focus on the design, integration, and validation of advanced sensor technologies into Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) for autonomous marine pollution monitoring. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Kerrouche, Dr LM Manjakkal
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Adaptive structures for operational variability and damage management

This project aims to investigate the capabilities of adaptive structures that change their geometry and mechanical properties to accommodate operational loading and damage management. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Garcia Cava
 30 October 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Forensic storage carving using AI

n computer forensics, investigators need to be able to analyse the contents of storage devices. Such devices generally store information in blocks, and the arrangement of blocks in a certain order is the thing which represents a files. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Russell, Dr S McKeown
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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AI Virtual Machine Introspection to detect Malware and Other Activities

Virtual machines have been around for a long time, and are used heavily throughout the internet. However, they are not immune to misuse, abuse, and attacks. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Russell, Prof RM Macfarlane
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Developing a coordinated control for hybrid ac/dc microgrids with renewable sources-battery storage under dynamic generation and load conditions

Due to the ongoing high penetration of renewable energy sources into the grid, the energy landscape is going through a major transformation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr JA Ahmed, Dr F Kahwash
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Digital Twin-Enabled Vehicular Edge Computing

Upon the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has been undergoing a transformative phase with exponential growth in innovative digital services and unprecedented business opportunities. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof A Al-Dubai, Prof BC Canberk
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Ransomware and Extortion-based Attack Simulation and Detection

Edinburgh Napier University’s research Centre for Cyber Security focuses on applied research in areas of threat analysis and detection, digital forensic triage, trust, identity and cryptography, and has had successful real world impact with several spin-out companies. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof RM Macfarlane, Dr S McKeown
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Training-free AI model

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 D Yi, Dr Y Hua
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Lightweight Deep Learning in internet of medical things (IoMT)

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 D Yi, Dr P K Sharma
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Optimum antenna arrays for 6G wireless communications

Base stations employ antenna arrays to accommodate parallel data streams and increase information transmission rates of wireless communication networks. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof P Karadimas, Dr FVS Vedreno Santos,
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Large-Language-Model-Driven Muscle Fatigue Wearable Monitoring Systems

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 Z Yu, Dr R Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Human–Wearable–Robot Interaction: Enabling Seamless Control of Mobile Manipulators via Biosensing Interfaces

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 Z Yu, Dr Y Huang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Neuro-Symbolic Decision-Making for Autonomous Agents: a Dual Process Theory Approach

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 R Cardosa, Prof Meneguzzi Meneguzzi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Explainable Learning Analytics: Towards Fair and Trustworthy AI in Higher Education

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 M Palomino, Dr N Beacham
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Privacy-preserving Systems around Security, Trust and Identity

Blockpass and the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University have set up an advanced Blockchain Identity Lab (BIL), which supports world-leading research related to cryptography, blockchain, distributed ledger technologies, privacy-preserving machine learning, and their linkage to sovereign identities such as decentralised identities and verifiable credentials. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PP Papadopoulos, Prof B Buchanan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Adversarial goal recognition and ambiguous policies

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 L Amado, Prof Meneguzzi Meneguzzi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Medical Video Classification

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 M Zhong, Dr T Lambrou, Dr I Sleeman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Small Language Models

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 Y Huang, Dr C Mu, Miss K Wang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Numerical Investigation and Uncertainty Quantification of Composite Flexible Risers

  Research Group: Polymers and Composites
Pipelines, traditionally constructed from steel, form the backbone of the oil and gas industry, facilitating crucial transportation in both onshore and offshore operations. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Abeykoon
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Uncertainties in Large Language Models

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 Y Huang, Dr C Mu
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees from the Royal Northern College of Music, including pathways in Performance, Composition, Musicology, Music Psychology, and Music Education

The RNCM offers the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Degrees are awarded by Manchester Metropolitan University for a collaborative programme of research, undertaken and supervised at RNCM. Read more
 Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding  Arts Research Programme
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Practical Reasoning Agent

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: Prof Meneguzzi Meneguzzi, Prof N Oren
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Goal and Plan Recognition for in Complex Settings

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: Prof Meneguzzi Meneguzzi, Dr L Amado
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Low Complexity Models for Computer Vision Applications

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 J Korhonen, Dr D Yi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Democratising AI for underserved applications

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 Y Hua, Dr D Yi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Computational Forgiveness Strategies

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: Prof N Oren, Prof Meneguzzi Meneguzzi, Prof N Griffiths
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Understandable LLM guardrails via Symbolic 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: Prof N Oren, Prof Meneguzzi Meneguzzi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Designing Sustainable and Scalable Models for Community-Based Computing Engagement: A Human-Centred Approach

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 D Meharg, Dr A Ciocarlan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Algorithmic Methodologies for De-Centralising Time

This project represents a development in a truly sparse capability within the UK. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Macdonald, Dr R C Clark
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)