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inequality PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 57 inequality PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Gender Inequality in the Contemporary Artworld

"For every £1 fetched by a male artist’s work, one by a woman gets a mere 10p – and its value plummets further if she signs it. The creator of Recalculating Art, a shocking new radio exposé, reveals her findings" (Sieghart 2022). Read more

Youth Side Hustles

A PhD scholarship is available to work on an Australian Research Council-funded project exploring youth ‘side-hustles’. Read more

NIHR School for Primary Care Research studentship

Research topics (the successful candidate will be able to select one of these topics). a) The impact of diagnostic delay on health outcomes in people with axial spondyloarthritis and the validity of screening tools to identify this condition. Read more

Exploring the role of HR Analytics in Organisational Performance

  Research Group: School of Management
In recent years, digitalisation has introduced new opportunities for organisations and transformed various organisational functions, such as human resources (HR), towards the implementation of digital approaches. Read more

Mechanisms underlying the effects of activated protein C (APC) in cardiac muscle

  Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences
APC is an anticoagulant enzyme that also exerts antithrombotic, anti-inflammatory, antiapoptotic and a variety of other cytoprotective effects in different tissues, where the mechanism of action is thought to involve the endothelial protein C receptor (EPCR) and a protease activated receptor (PAR). Read more

Leadership for Responsible Digital Transformation in Healthcare

  Research Group: School of Management
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare leaders must grasp the changing opportunity where exceptional leadership qualities are crucial. Read more

Leading to innovation: Developing Leadership Capability Framework for Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)

  Research Group: School of Management
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been one of the sectors hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the adverse consequences are expected to continue for many years. Read more

Targeting the MAPK scaffold protein KSR1 for the treatment of prostate cancer

  Research Group: Institute of Cancer Therapeutics
Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of male cancer deaths. It arises when individual cells escape their normal growth control mechanisms and proliferate in an uncontrolled fashion. Read more

Social robots for Care: Exploring context awareness mechanisms for human-centred robot interactions [SELF-FUNDED STUDENTS ONLY]

  Research Group: Cybersecurity, Privacy and HCC Research Section
About the Project. Unpaid carers provide non-medical care to people who suffer from long-term diseases or disabilities. This role is highly demanding, causing a multidimensional impact on the caregiver's life. Read more

Social robots for Care: Exploring context awareness mechanisms for human-centred robot interactions

  Research Group: Cybersecurity, Privacy and HCC Research Section
About the Project. Unpaid carers provide non-medical care to people who suffer from long-term diseases or disabilities. This role is highly demanding, causing a multidimensional impact on the caregiver's life. Read more

Postgraduate Research Opportunities in Education

About the School of Education. The School of Education is recognised as one of the very best in the UK for its research and teaching excellence, with 81% of our research deemed 'world-leading' and 'internationally excellent' by the Research Excellence Framework in 2021. Read more

Evaluating the meaning and distribution of ‘Tree Equity’ in Surrey: An interdisciplinary approach

Having access to trees reduces respiratory illness and improves mental health and well-being (Pataki et al 2021). Tress also provide protection from climate extremes such as flooding and heatwaves (Leets et al 2022). Read more

Pharmacokinetics Guided Natural Products Exploration for Drug Discovery, Development, Delivery and Therapy

  Research Group: Institute of Cancer Therapeutics
Natural products have emerged as a key standard in novel and safe delivery of anticancer bioactive compounds. Apart from their ease of administration and delivery, natural/phytochemicals still face several hurdles, due to their physiochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. Read more

Being a non-native speaker in a dynamic world: Language-related policy and its effects on people's cognition, wellbeing and other aspects of their lives

PLEASE NOTE. This project is for self-funded or externally sponsored students only. It is quite common that a country or community has only one official language, or one overwhelmingly dominant official language amongst a few. Read more

Studying for a PhD in Humanities and Social Science

The University of Brighton has opened opportunities for self-funded PhD students in multiple areas of research in the fields of humanities and social sciences. Read more

Molecular mechanisms of pacemaker (sinus node) dysfunction in ageing, heart failure and athletes

  Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences
The heart’s pacemaker, the sinus node, initiates the action potential that causes the heart to beat, and the atrioventricular node conducts the action potential from the atria to the ventricles, the pumping chambers of the heart. Read more

Characterisation of adrenoceptor and muscarinic receptor subtypes coupled to potassium channels in chondrocytes from bovine cartilage

  Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences
Several outward potassium currents have been identified in bovine chondrocytes (review Mobasheri et al. 2012). These include ATP-sensitive and a Calcium-activated potassium currents (Sanches & Lopez-Zapata, 2011). Read more

Updating the background characteristics and risk factors associated with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) to inform risk-reduction messages and help target vulnerable families

Our team has been instrumental in reducing the number of cot deaths (SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) in England & Wales by 90% over the last three decades.[1] The remaining 2-300 unexpected infant deaths per year show a marked inequality, largely coming from socio-economically deprived communities. Read more

PhD Opportunities in English, History and Performance

We warmly invite applications for full-time or part-time self-funded PhD study. About the PhD programme. The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) at Sheffield Hallam University was founded in 1996. Read more

Virtual Engagement: The Impact of Avatars on Metaverse Retailing

  Research Group: School of Management
In 2020, the Metaverse was valued globally at US$487 billion, encompassing gaming, social media, live entertainment, and gaming/Virtual reality (VR)/Augmented reality (AR) (Bloomberg, 2021), with projections to exceed US$1 trillion by 2030 (Bloomberg, 2022; Precedence Research, 2022). Read more

The role of vitamin D3 in treating skin cancer and preventing drug resistance

  Research Group: Chemistry and Biosciences
During the last decade numerous studies have alluded to vitamin D. 3. playing a role in the prevention of cancer. Recent clinical trials looking at the potential role of vitamin D. Read more

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