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We have 171 University of Reading PhD Research Projects PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Understanding how electrical communication can regulate metabolic cycles in bacteria biofilms

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Engineering

Project Overview. A biofilm is a robust form of bacteria colony resistant to antibiotics. They have significant impacts on a multitude of industries impacting health and industrial processes such as in food production and water security. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Y Hayashi, Dr G Barrett

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

Disappearing security threats: Understanding the silent end to the "War on Terror".

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

The Global War on Terror (WoT) was announced by US President George W. Bush shortly after the al Qaeda attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. Read more

Supervisor: Prof H Toros

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

Investigating Platelet and Megakaryocyte Signalling Using Advanced Microscopy Techniques

University of Reading School of Pharmacy

Investigating Platelet and Megakaryocyte Signalling Using Advanced Microscopy Techniques. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Bye, Dr F Tamagnini

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

Active Vision: The fundamental role for eye movements in our experinece of visually stable world

University of Reading School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

Vision is necessarily limited by the inhomogeneity of visual system, with fine detail being restricted to the central point of regard. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E McSorley

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

Bilingual Language Processing: Comparing First and Second Language Comprehension

University of Reading School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

A considerable literature has investigated how different populations of monolingual and bilingual speakers acquire and process language in real-time. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Cunnings

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

How is climate change affecting atmospheric turbulence?

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

Atmospheric turbulence is the leading cause of weather-related aircraft accidents and. incidents. It injures hundreds of passengers and flight attendants annually, costs the aviation. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P Williams

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

Investigating bacteria-bacteriophage diversity to develop phage libraries for treatment of bacterial infections

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Sciences

Project Overview. The World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infections will be the leading cause of death globally by 2050. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Mulley

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

Exploitation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Quantity Surveying Practice: Using AI as an opportunity to improve Cost Certainty

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) often tends to go hand in hand for its propensity to mimic human cognitive functions such as problem solving, pattern recognition and respond to certain actions accordingly. Read more

Supervisor: Dr U Madanayake

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

What is the relevance of hormones made in the brain?

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Sciences

Project Overview: . Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Vasudevan, Prof P G Knight

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

How do hormones regulate memory?

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Sciences

Deficiencies of thyroid hormone are common throughout the globe. Adult-onset hypothyroidism is prevalent in around 8-10% of the population and is associated with reproductive disorders, anxiety, depression and impairment of memory. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Vasudevan, Prof P G Knight

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

Bowel cancer caused by bacteria

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Sciences

The gut microbiome has a profound effect on health and disease of humans and colorectal cancer (CRC) is one such disease influenced by microorganisms. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S R Clarke, Prof P R Dash

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

Integrative approach to valorise vegetable waste

University of Reading Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences

The FAO estimates that around one third of all food produced worldwide is not consumed, which represents around 1.3 billion tons per year, and is wasted throughout the whole food chain, from farmers to consumers. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Oruna-Concha, Prof L Methven

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

Novel strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of snakebites

University of Reading School of Pharmacy

Snakebite envenomation (SBE), a high priority neglected tropical disease affects several million people worldwide resulting in as many as 150,000 deaths and around 500,000 permanent disabilities every year. Read more

Supervisor: Prof SV Vaiyapuri

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

Nanotechnologies for cancer: developing new polymer-drug conjugates for the treatment of a range of cancers

University of Reading School of Pharmacy

Polymer anticancer-drug conjugates are drug delivery systems in which a low molecular weight anticancer agent is covalently conjugated to a water-soluble polymeric carrier. Read more

Supervisors: Dr F Greco, Prof H Osborn

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

Mechanisms of Cancer Stem Cell Survival, Metastasis Formation and Immune Evasion in Cancer

University of Reading School of Pharmacy

Recent research suggests that cancer cells within a tumour represent a highly heterogeneous cell population. In particular many tumours contain small percentage of cells that share several characteristics with stem cells. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D Widera

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

Investigation of the critical roles of platelets at the interface between thrombosis and inflammation in order to develop improved therapeutic strategies for the treatment and/or prevention of cardiovascular/inflammatory diseases

University of Reading School of Pharmacy

Platelets (small circulating blood cells) are involved in blood clotting to prevent excessive bleeding, however, their inappropriate activation under pathological conditions leads to thrombosis resulting in major cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke. Read more

Supervisor: Prof SV Vaiyapuri

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

Health behaviours in sport

University of Reading School of Pharmacy

Why do people behave the way they do? What impact can an individual’s behaviour have on their physical health? What are the unique challenges and opportunities experienced by people who participate in sport?. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Hollywood

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

Developing novel formulations and materials for transmucosal drug delivery

University of Reading School of Pharmacy

Mucosal routes of drug administration offer numerous advantages including ease of application, non-invasive nature and sometimes possibility of targeting particular organs. Read more

Supervisor: Prof V Khutoryanskiy

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

Scalable continuous Machine Learning for non-Stationary Systems

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

Nonlinear time series prediction attracts researchers from many different disciplines such as engineering systems condition monitoring and control, financial markets prediction and energy management, etc. Read more

Supervisor: Prof X Hong

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

Developing computing architectures for improving the simulation of fog

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

To numerically simulate the formation of fog, a horizontal spatial resolution approaching 1 metre or less is highly desirable to improve scientific understanding… Read more

Supervisor: Dr T.R. Jones

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

Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics of Associative Polymers for Healthcare and Sustainable Applications: Computer Simulations and Mathematical Modelling

University of Reading Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Introduction. Associative polymers are macromolecules containing associative groups, also called stickers, that undergo reversible association to physically cross link the polymers into transient networks. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Wang, Dr A Lukyanov

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

Nonlinear systems of PDE and vectorial Calculus of Variations in L∞ (L-infinity)

University of Reading Department of Mathematics and Statistics

The calculus of variations is, roughly speaking, the mathematical theory of how to minimise or maximise magnitudes. Variational problems from science typically require minimisation of an average magnitude over a space-time region depending on unknown quantities. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Katzourakis

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

Unsupervised, explainable image segmentation/classification using Hyperspectral data

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

Hyperspectral data is acquired by sensors that record data for hundreds to thousands of electromagnetic wavelengths as individual bands. Read more

Supervisors: Prof X Hong, Dr H Wei

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

Identification of tree species based on UAV captured images

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

Computer Computer vision technology has been found to be an important application in remotely sensed data understanding. This research exploits high‐resolution images captured by UAV payload cameras to identify tree species. Read more

Supervisors: Dr H Wei, Prof J Ferryman, Dr G DiFatta

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

Vehicle Re-Identification Using Self-Supervised Vision Transformers

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

Vehicle re-identification (Re-ID) is one of the primary components of an automated visual surveillance system. It aims to automatically identify/search vehicles in a multi-camera network usually having non- overlapping field-of-views. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Shahzad, Prof J Ferryman

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

Next Generation of Low Power Wireless Communication for Internet of Things

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

Internet of Things greatly extends coverage area that human being is able to perceive, access, and even control. By connecting various “Things” to the Internet, the physical world is possible to be measured and managed as needed. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S-H Yang

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

Intrusion Detection for industrial Internet of Things

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

With the development of the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT), an increasing number of industrial control systems (ICSs) are connected to the Internet and in danger of being attacked. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S-H Yang

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

Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Safety and Security

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

Industrial cyber-physical systems (iCPS) may suffer security risk from cyber space and safety risk from physical space. iCPS develop strategies based on safety and security (S&S) requirements to reduce risks from cyber and physical spaces. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S-H Yang

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

Development of lung in vitro model to assess antimicrobial activity

University of Reading School of Pharmacy

When developing new inhaled antibiotics to treat lung infections, they will need to be tested before being given to humans. Current methods to test inhaled antibiotics are based on animals which are both inhumane and lack efficacy. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Al-Obaidi

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

Biomechanics and wearable sensors

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Engineering

Project Overview. Movement analysis and recording in humans has been confined to dedicated gait and motion capture facilities, but this only records movements for a single part of one day in an unusual environment. Read more

Supervisors: Prof W Harwin, Prof F Hwang

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

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