Information Science (self) PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

How do natural experiences shape the functional organisation of the developing brain? To address this question directly, we have been developing a novel robotic technology - the synthetic littermate (or ’surrogate’).

Autonomous learning with Artificial Intelligence

Aberdeen University
School of Engineering

Dr A Starkey, Dr M N Campbell-Bannerman

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The ability to learn the sensorimotor maps of unknown environments without supervision is a vital capability of any autonomous agent, be it biological or artificial.

Multi-agent AI for coordinating a hardware gig economy

University of Edinburgh
School of Engineering

Prof T Drysdale

Application Deadline: 25 March 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Gig economies have turned many traditional business models on their heads, and are poised to do the same yet again, but for one of the most traditional economies.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Biomedical Data

Keele University
Faculty of Natural Sciences

Prof P Andras

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are the leading edge approaches to data driven problems across all areas of life, technology and sciences.

Manufacturing 4.0: Design of Smart Manufacturing Systems

University of Liverpool
School of Engineering

Dr J Milisavljevic-Syed

Application Deadline: 1 November 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

BACKGROUND. Conventional manufacturing processes are designed for mass production at a low cost. In recent years, globalization of markets has imposed demands on enterprises to respond rapidly to technological advances and changing preferences of a large customer base.

Bioinformatics for Personalized and Precision Neoantigen Therapeutics in Cancer

University of Edinburgh
Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine

Prof T Hupp, Dr JA Alfaro

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Despite the success of immune checkpoint inhibitors in the clinic, most cancer patients do not respond, and even among responders therapeutic resistance is a problem.

The dynamics of human attention in the online environment

University of Technology Sydney
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Dr M-A Rizoiu

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Topic. This project will develop and evaluate stochastic models for the spread of information over complex social networks, in which the individual actions -- such as retweets, posts or shares -- are only partially observed.

PhD Studentship in Nano-electronics: Resistive-switching memory devices (ReRAM/FeRAM/memristor) and its application in neuromorphic and in-memory computing systems

Liverpool John Moores University
Faculty of Engineering & Technology

Prof W Zhang

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Applications are invited for a PhD position in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU).

Algorithms to process brain activity over networks for clinical applications

University of Edinburgh
School of Engineering

Dr J Escudero Rodriguez

Application Deadline: 15 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

This exciting inter-disciplinary PhD project will develop mathematical and computational algorithms to analyse brain activity and brain networks with the objective to help monitor neurological conditions.

Computational algorithms to model the interplay between brain structure and function

University of Edinburgh
School of Engineering

Dr J Escudero Rodriguez

Application Deadline: 15 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

This exciting PhD project will develop computational models and analysis techniques to explore how the main connections between brain regions shape the characteristics of brain activity, and how different kinds of pathological processes damaging the connections of the network result in changes in the brain activity.