Computer Science (development) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Automating Software Development with Semantic-based Generative AI

Automatic design and development of software applications has been the dream of software communities for decades. Read more

Supervisors: Prof X Liu, Dr OB Bamgboye

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

Design of digital technology and machine learning solutions for mental health

The significant societal and economic impact of mental health conditions worldwide is well documented. With a growing awareness of mental health, the pressing need to streamline access to sustainable care services is now an imperative. Read more

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

Design of virtual immersive environments for inclusive multimodal experiences

Immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality are a topic of fast-paced research, and knowledge boundaries are presently being pushed by design research on inclusive immersive social environments, among others. Read more

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

Design of virtual immersive environments for advanced anatomy training

Virtual immersive environments, including those that are anticipated to become available in the context of the Metaverse – a future immersive virtual world envisaged as a hypothetical iteration of the Internet – hold significant potential for future healthcare education. Read more

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

Design for early detection of symptoms of anxiety and depression in university students

Anxiety, depression, and psychological distress can have a severe impact on university student quality of life and academic performance, and recent studies have highlighted the role that the COVID-19 pandemic has played in exacerbating symptoms. Read more

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

Coventry University Centre for Intelligent Healthcare

Last chance to apply

Towards reliable detection of uterine contraction: Development of a nanostructured biocompatible electrohysterography electrode array system

This is a four year collaborative studentship which requires the candidate to spend two full years based at Coventry University (UK) and two years based at A*STAR Research Institute (Singapore). Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Zheng

25 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Habitats: Managing the ecological impacts of noise on wildlife habitats for sustainable development

Information on this PhD research area can be found further down this page under the details about the Widening Participation Scholarship given immediately below. Read more

Supervisors: Prof D Waddington, Dr M Wood, Prof B Davies, Prof R Young

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

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Design, development and control of a reconfigurable triphibian unmanned vehicle

Information on this PhD research area can be found further down this page under the details about the Widening Participation Scholarship given immediately below. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Wei

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

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

MSc by Research: Investigation of coordination of cell divisions during early embryonic development

Gastrulation is an essential process in early development, during which the forming ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm take up their correct positions in the embryo. Read more

Supervisor: Prof C J Weijer

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

University of Warwick Department of Chemistry

Atomistic Simulations of Surface Chemistry underpinning the Atomic-Scale Processing of Materials for AI-driven Nanoelectronics Applications

Project description. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) and atomic layer etching (ALE) are crucial technologies in semiconductor processing, especially as nanoelectronics devices become smaller and more complex. Read more

Supervisor: Dr BK Karasulu

3 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Cranfield University School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing (SATM)

Causal Machine Learning in Aerospace PhD

This PhD project will investigate the recent field of study of Causal Machine Learning, which aims to modify and augment Machine Learning by using Causal Analysis techniques as a way to solve its limitations. Read more

Supervisors: Prof W Guo, Dr MA Arana-Catania

24 July 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Disruptive Digital Experiences

Supervisors: Dr H Agius, Dr D Daylamani-Zad

Digital experiences deliberately go beyond simply communicating information - they seek to strongly engage, involve, and emotionally affect the user using digital means. Read more

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

King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) scholarship - Can MIND networks derived from brain MRI shed fresh light on perinatal development?

Brain connectivity is central to neurodevelopment and later cognition and mental health (Morgan et al., BP:CNNI 2018). We recently proposed a new method to construct structural brain networks from MRI data, called Morphometric Inverse Divergence (MIND). Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Morgan

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Medical University of Vienna Institute for Pathophysiologie and Allergy

Development of a highly innovative label-free & deep-learning based analysis method: Histoplasmonic Tissue Cytometry

The doctoral candidate (DC) will perform applied research in bioinformatics, i.e., the extraction of numerical values from biological samples, by engaging deep learning technologies to microscopic images with the aim to develop a novel solution for future clinical diagnostics of cancer. Read more

Supervisors: Dr RE Ecker, Dr IE Ellinger

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)