Latest Durham University PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Machine Learning based Human Motion Analysis for Automatic Diseases Diagnosis

This project aims at researching machine learning algorithms for analyzing 3D human motion data (e.g. video, 3D joint positions) to diagnose motion-related diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and stroke. Read more

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

Computer Vision with Deep Learning for Human Data Modelling

This project focuses on deep learning algorithms to model human data such as human images/video, 3D skeletal motion, 3D body/facial surfaces for recognition, prediction and reconstruction. Read more

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

Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Understanding the People Context in Artworks

This project aims at understanding the context of paintings or drawings, particularly those with humans, with advanced machine learning and computer vision algorithms. Read more

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

Deep Learning based Computer Graphics for Virtual Human Synthesis

This project aims at modelling human motion and body/facial shape data with deep neural network to synthesize virtual humans for computer graphics and animation applications. Read more

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

Understanding stain-surface interactions and applying this understanding towards mechanisms for stain removal in Fabric Care

Durham University Department of Chemistry

Are you a chemist considering fundamental academic research with industrial relevance? Are you passionate about developing analytical tools for application to real-world challenges in close collaboration with an industrial partner?. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Beeby

1 August 2021 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

New Antiferroelectrics: Exploring Hybrid-improper Mechanisms to Design and Prepare Functional Materials

30 April 2021 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

The increasingly diverse demands of emerging technologies means that research to design and optimize new functional materials is a top priority. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E McCabe

Building Three-Dimensional Structures from Two-Dimensional Materials, Novel Approaches for the Creation of Van der Waals Heterostructures

Supervisor: Dr M. Szablewski

The isolation of graphene by Geim and Novoselov in 2010 proved that two-dimensional crystalline solids could be stable and brought into the realm of experimental science and technology. Read more

30 April 2021 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Development of New Magnetic Imaging Systems Using a Novel Sensor Technology

30 April 2021 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

This project is based on the application of a newly emerging magnetic sensor technology to the imaging of magnetic fields produced by magnetic materials. The sensors operate through the observation of the Photo-Electric Magnetic Resonance in the semiconductor silicon-carbide (SiC). Read more

Supervisor: Dr I. Terry

Energy-Efficient Nanomagnetics: Spin Wave Transmission in 3-D Nanostructures for Applications in Local Manipulation of Information

Supervisor: Prof A.O. Adeyeye

Advances in nanotechnology and novel detection techniques are providing researchers worldwide with unprecedented control and understanding of matter at atomic and fundamental length scales. Read more

30 April 2021 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Theory and Simulation of Ferroic Materials

Supervisor: Dr N Bristowe

Symmetry breaking in materials often produces emergent physical behaviour. Common examples include time-reversal symmetry breaking in (ferro)magnetics and spatial-inversion symmetry breaking in ferroelectrics, but there exists a plethora of other types. Read more

30 April 2021 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)