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We have 170 University of Reading PhD Research Projects PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Multi-view approaches for content-based image clustering

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

Human and animal learning are naturally in the so-called semi-supervised mode of learning, i.e. with a limited teaching but more of self-training experiments. Read more

Supervisors: Prof X Hong, Dr H Wei, Prof J Ferryman

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

Interactions between introduced tree species and native mycorrhizal fungi in the UK

University of Reading Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Mycorrhizal symbioses are one of the most extensive and important biotic interactions in terrestrial ecosystems, typically providing plants with improved access to nutrients in exchange for carbohydrates produced via photosynthesis. Read more

Supervisor: Dr BJ Pickles

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

Net zero housing retrofits - assuring a sustainable low-carbon transition in the domestic sector

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

The UK has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The UK's 29 million houses represent 14% of total emissions (CCC, 2019), with nearly 90% of these built more than 20 years ago before stricter energy efficiency standards came into force (Ince & Marvin, 2019). Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Mohareb

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

Impacts of oversizing on the performance of energy and environmental systems

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

Heating, cooling, and ventilation systems in buildings are often sized at capacities exceeding the demand for these services. This can result in inefficient operation, higher initial and operational costs, and larger environmental impacts. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Shahrestani

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

Decarbonisation of heating and cooling systems for net zero carbon future

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

Decarbonisation of heating and cooling in buildings can be achieved through switching fuels and transferring the demand from Natural Gas to low-carbon electricity. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Shahrestani

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

Organisational implications of robotics and automation in construction supply chains

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

Over the next 20 years around 50% of construction work could be automated using new and emerging technologies to support advancing automation in the construction sector. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Dowsett

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

Controlling airborne infectious disease transmission in indoor environment

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

Infectious disease pandemics are brutal killers in human history. The recent COVID-19 outbreak in China has killed over 2.4K people globally, and more than 78K people are infected across 28 countries (As of 22th Feb 2020). Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Shao

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

Decarbonisation of the Food System

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

As the world transitions to a low carbon economic system, dramatic changes will be required across the all sectors. The food system, which is currently estimated to be responsible for 20-30% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is one where particular urgency is required. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Mohareb

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

Plants and people in Mesolithic Scotland: examining hunter-gatherer-plant interactions over 5 millennia.

University of Reading School of Archaeology

The aim of the PhD project is to consider the role and importance of different plant food and fuel resources in hunter-gatherer subsistence in Mesolithic Scotland. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S J Mithen, Dr K Wicks

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

Exploring Causal Complexity in International Relations

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

In recent decades, a rich and sophisticated literature has emerged, in International Relations and in the broader social sciences, demonstrating how a range of methods can be used to derive reasonably secure causal inferences. Rather less attention has been paid to the fact that, in the world around us, causal relations often fail to play out in a uniform fashion. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Humphreys

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

Local-level governance and environmental protection in Brazil

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

About the Project. Local authorities are often the ones in charge of taking substantive measures to protect the environment. Read more

Supervisor: Dr V Araújo

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

Delegation in Complex Conflicts

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

In the last decade, principal–agent theory has almost completely dominated theorizing on conflict delegation. Although not without criticism, it is fair to say that principal– agent theory has become the dominant framework through which we have come to study external support to non-state armed groups. Read more

Supervisor: Dr V Rauta

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

Understanding the molecular mechanisms of thrombosis and haemostasis

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Sciences

Project Overview: . The risk of heart attack or stroke is elevated in obesity and in people with metabolic disorders such as diabetes. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C.E. Hughes, Prof J M Gibbins

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

Territorial Integrity, 1815-Present: A Conceptual History

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

In virtually every recent territorial dispute, the concept of 'territorial integrity' is invoked, from Ukraine's efforts to repel Russia's invasion to China's efforts to exercise influence over Taiwan. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Goettlich

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

Crop Type Classification Using Optical Remote Sensing

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

Crop type mapping at the field level is necessary for a variety of applications in agricultural monitoring and food security. In this thesis, the goal is to develop a suitable deep neural network architecture that could detect different crop types in remote sensing images. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Shahzad, Dr H Wei

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

The Ethics of Communicating Scientific Risk

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

Scientific research is intimately bound up with risk. For one thing, scientific findings often reveal significant societal risks, such as risks of catastrophic climate change or dangerous disease outbreaks. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Baderin, Dr m Lepoutre

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

Decisionmaking in the European Union

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

The Department of Politics at the University of Reading seeks to appoint an outstanding and highly motivated PhD candidate for a period of 3 full years (36 months). Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Golub

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

Inhibition and excitation in the brain

University of Reading School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

An appropriate balance between excitatory and inhibitory neural processes in the brain underlies healthy psychological function. Two examples of conditions in which there is an imbalance are autism and ADHD. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Field

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

Cognitive processes in self-control and emotion regulation

University of Reading School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

The Self-Regulation, Attention, and Emotion Lab examines various topics at the intersection of self-regulation, emotion, and (social) cognition research. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Vogt

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

Understanding the biological role of the i-motif

University of Reading School of Pharmacy

The DNA i-motif is an important biological target which has recently been shown to form inside the nucleus of human cells. Current understanding of this structure is limited as it has received little research focus over the last 30 years, primarily because it was thought it couldn’t exist within biological environment. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Brazier

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

Developing a novel Health Psychology intervention to increase uptake of Awake Surgery

University of Reading School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

Outpatient surgical procedures have traditionally been carried out in the United Kingdom under General Anaesthetic. However, such a choice of anaesthesia comes with additional risks for patients, especially those with co-morbidities. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Finlay

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

Plant-insect interactions in a changing world

University of Reading Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Project Overview: . Insects associated with plants comprise one of the most diverse groups of species on earth. Their impact on the ecology and evolution of their host plants is widely recognised, as is their contribution to multiple important ecosystem services. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Gripenberg

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

Modular and industrialised solutions for building retrofit

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

More than 85% of the 2050 building stock is already built and almost all will require some form of retrofit/renovation in order to meet global carbon emissions reductions goals. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Fuertes

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

Low density lipoprotein oxidation and atherosclerosis

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Sciences

Project overview. The research in Professor David Leake’s group is concerned with atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of coronary heart disease and thrombotic strokes. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D S Leake

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

Examining the mechanisms that cause cardiovascular disease by studying the heart or adipose tissue

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Sciences

Heart failure has a serious impact on our society and once diagnosed has a poor survival rate. In the United Kingdom, there are about 1.5 million people living with the after-effects of a heart attack. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Boateng

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

Human-centric, data-driven model predictive control strategies for buildings

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

There is significant potential for big data and data science (e.g. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Jones

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

Managing Risk in Projects with Digital Twins

University of Reading School of the Built Environment

A digital twin is a virtual representation that serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a physical object or a system, such as a built asset or a socio-technical system. Read more

Supervisor: Prof I Dikmen

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

Platelets in health, ageing and disease: new diagnostics and treatments

University of Reading Department of Biomedical Sciences

Platelets are small blood cells that play a vital role in the chronic and acute progression of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD), and also have roles in immunity, inflammation, cancer metastasis, Alzheimer's disease and a range of infections, such as dengue, HIV-1, malaria, and COVID-19. Read more

Supervisor: Dr CI Jones

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

The effects of bi/multilingualism on brain structure and function

University of Reading School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

Increasing evidence suggests that speaking two or more languages has particular effects on the brain. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Pliatsikas

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

Neural and behavioural correlates of speech production in Parkinson's disease

University of Reading School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

Speech is a complex task requiring highly coordinated movements of a large group of respiratory, laryngeal and articulatory muscles and involves precise integration with auditory and somatosensory feedback to plan and execute speech movements. Read more

Supervisor: Dr F Mollaei

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

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