speech PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Understanding the effect of nonverbal behaviours on first impression formation

Aberdeen University School of Psychology

Social psychological research has demonstrated that people can form first impressions of others quickly and often quite accurately. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Chu, Dr C Sutherland

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

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Democracy and expertise

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

Scientific thinking has long influenced democratic politics. Since the Age of Enlightenment, two central pillars of modernity have been science and democracy. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R A Huber

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A study of trans+ people’s experiences of domestic abuse in Scotland

Edinburgh Napier University The Business School

PROJECT DESCRIPTION . In 2010, Roch Richie and LGBT Youth Scotland1 published the first report on trans people’s experience of domestic abuse in Scotland. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Clucas

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Domestic Abuse Support Provision for Trans+ People in Scotland

Edinburgh Napier University The Business School

Recent years in Scotland and the UK have seen both proposed reform of trans+ rights, and a rise in anti-trans voices in the pub Domestic Abuse Support Provision for Trans+ People in Scotland lic sphere. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Clucas

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Intelligent and Efficient Testing and Verification of Deep Neural Networks

University of York Department of Computer Science

About the Project. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated human-level capabilities in several challenging machine learning tasks including image classification, natural language processing and speech recognition. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Gerasimou

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Machine consciousness based on multi-sensor fusion

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University School of Advanced Technology

Cameras can perceive the appearance, color, and shape information of objects in the environment and are widely used in object classification, object detection, object segmentation, object tracking and other fields. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S Guan, Dr YY Yue, Dr E G Lim, Prof P Wong

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD opportunities in Cognitive Neuroscience

Brunel University London

Join cognitive neuroscientists, clinical neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, neurophysiologists, psychopharmacologists, sports and exercise psychologists, and carry out cutting-edge interdisciplinary research to understand and restore human brain function and health. Read more

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Applied Dementia Studies (PhD, Faculty of Health Studies)

University of Bradford

Study a PhD at the. University of Bradford. and contribute new and significant knowledge to the field of. Applied Dementia Studies. Read more

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Exploring how Natural Language Processing (NLP) can help with the diagnosis of dementia

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering and Informatics

Research Group: Visual Computing

The Alzheimer’s Society acknowledges the COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant decrease in dementia diagnosis rates from 67.6% in February 2020 to 63.5% in June 2020. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Panesar, Dr I Mehmood

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