Creative Arts & Design PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students

The impact of new technologies on Creative Industries production: how to manage positive and negative environmental impacts

Loughborough University Loughborough Business School

The creative industries are among the largest and most digital of the UK’s industrial sectors. Within creative industries we are witnessing two contrasting effects. Read more

Supervisors: Prof G Hitchen, Prof L Jackson, Dr K Broadhurst, Prof I Hodgkinson

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

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Re-imagining Engineering Design (RIED)

Loughborough University Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Shape, topology and chemistry of materials and structures are the ingredients to achieve multifunctionality. Read more

Supervisors: Prof C Torres-Sanchez, Prof P Conway

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

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Becoming a doctoral candidate: from expert to learner and back again

Coventry University Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities

Eligibility: UK/EU/International graduates with the required entry requirements. Funding details: Bursary plus tuition fees (UK/EU/International). Read more

Supervisor: Prof DS Sutton

27 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Selling ‘Food for the Soul’: Barriers, Opportunities, and Performance Implications of Marketing Upskilling in the Arts Sector

King’s College London King’s Business School

The PhD project. This PhD project aims to explore how marketing skills can help to boost performance within the arts sector (Mottler and Ford, 2005). Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Dubiel, Prof D Vom

3 May 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The Arts of Belonging: Migration, Environment and Well-Being

Aberdeen University School of Social Sciences

The University of Aberdeen is an internationally recognised centre for excellence for research addressing the global challenges of energy transition, environment and biodiversity, social inclusion and cultural diversity, health, nutrition and wellbeing, and data and artificial intelligence. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Halabi, Dr R Macklin

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

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Radical place-making: folk counter-geographies and cultural representations of opposition to power in Aberdeen, Scotland

Aberdeen University School of Geosciences

The University of Aberdeen is an internationally recognised centre for excellence for research addressing the global challenges of energy transition, environment and biodiversity, social inclusion and cultural diversity, health, nutrition and wellbeing, and data and artificial intelligence. Read more

Supervisors: Prof E Belfiore, Dr J Pierce

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

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Interrogating Situated Colonial Practices in the Dance Archive

Coventry University Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE)

September 2024 Entry. Introduction. This PhD project will examine the historical and geographical relevance of colonial histories in relation to dance and archival practices. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Wood

27 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Embedding behavioural science insights into Early Intervention and Prevention across service areas (adult social care, children and families and housing), to explore ways of supporting citizens before they present to the council during crisis

University of Birmingham School of Social Policy

The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding behaviour (Centre-UB) is inviting applications for a Doctoral Studentship in association with our collaborative partner Birmingham City Council to start in October 2024. Read more

Supervisors: Prof C Needham, Dr J Pykett

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

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Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for Regenerative Innovation (Regnr8-i): Water Issues in Wetlands and Woodlands: A Creative Practice-Led Investigation

University of Dundee UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science

This practice-led PhD project overlays a combination of artistic, geographic, cultural, philosophical, and participatory research methods investigating the current state of water issues in Scottish managed woodlands and wetlands. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Modeen, Prof J Rowan

3 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Representations of illness and/or disability and/or the National Health Service in British film and television

University of Worcester Research School

This PhD will explore wide-ranging representations, across British film and television history, and across genres, of illness and/or disability and/or the National Health Service. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Newland

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

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Reframing Critical and Socially Engaged Arts Practices from a Creative Health / Health Humanities Perspective

University of Worcester Research School

The Arts and Health Research Group was created in 2021 in response to the nationwide increase in physical and mental health needs in the UK, particularly amongst the young, the elderly and minority groups, following the Covid pandemic and lockdown. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Cussans

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

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Arts-led Approaches to Trauma, Memory and Healing

University of Worcester Research School

The Covid pandemic led to a worldwide increase in physical and mental health needs, particularly amongst the young, the elderly and minority groups. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Cussans

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

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Addressing the Psycho-Emotional Impact of Climate Anxiety on Children and Young People through Illustration

University of Worcester Research School

Climate change is contributing to a worldwide increase in physical and mental health needs. There is subsequently a critical bottleneck in supply and demand for mental health services in the UK and further afield, especially for child and adolescent mental health [1]. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Cussans

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

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Examining the impact of Design HOPES’ interventions across NHS Scotland

University of Strathclyde Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management

The AHRC/ UKRI funded Design HOPES Green Transition Ecosystem (GTE) Hub aims to empower novel research to respond to significant green transition challenges in innovative, design-led collaborative ways. Read more

Supervisor: Prof PR Rodgers

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

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Socially intelligent management of built environments - Leverhulme Doctoral School in Nature Inspired Acoustics

University of Strathclyde Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering

This is a fully funded PhD opportunity within the Leverhulme Doctoral School in Nature Inspired Acoustics (The Leverhulme Doctoral School in Nature Inspired Acoustics (nia-leverhulme.org.uk)). Read more

Supervisor: Prof S O Oliveira

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

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We have 82 Creative Arts & Design PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students

Creative Arts & Design PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students

We have 82 Creative Arts & Design PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students

The impact of new technologies on Creative Industries production: how to manage positive and negative environmental impacts

Re-imagining Engineering Design (RIED)

Becoming a doctoral candidate: from expert to learner and back again

Selling ‘Food for the Soul’: Barriers, Opportunities, and Performance Implications of Marketing Upskilling in the Arts Sector

The Arts of Belonging: Migration, Environment and Well-Being

Radical place-making: folk counter-geographies and cultural representations of opposition to power in Aberdeen, Scotland

Interrogating Situated Colonial Practices in the Dance Archive

Embedding behavioural science insights into Early Intervention and Prevention across service areas (adult social care, children and families and housing), to explore ways of supporting citizens before they present to the council during crisis

Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for Regenerative Innovation (Regnr8-i): Water Issues in Wetlands and Woodlands: A Creative Practice-Led Investigation

Representations of illness and/or disability and/or the National Health Service in British film and television

Reframing Critical and Socially Engaged Arts Practices from a Creative Health / Health Humanities Perspective

Arts-led Approaches to Trauma, Memory and Healing

Addressing the Psycho-Emotional Impact of Climate Anxiety on Children and Young People through Illustration

Examining the impact of Design HOPES’ interventions across NHS Scotland

Socially intelligent management of built environments - Leverhulme Doctoral School in Nature Inspired Acoustics

We have 82 Creative Arts & Design PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students

Creative Arts & Design PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students

We have 82 Creative Arts & Design PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students

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