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Perspectives on reality as processes and event - from Heidegger to non-duality and beyond

University of Dundee School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

What if our reality was fundamentally dynamic and interrelated - a process? Current developments in both science and technology provide abundant data and arguments for such a dynamic reconceptualization of reality. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Röck

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Gendered Aesthetics in Visual Culture

University of Dundee Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

This PhD invites applications for those interested in and generating new theories of aesthetics or contents analysis of contemporary and/or historic art. Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Gørrill

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Gender Inequality in the Contemporary Artworld

University of Dundee Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

"For every £1 fetched by a male artist’s work, one by a woman gets a mere 10p – and its value plummets further if she signs it. The creator of Recalculating Art, a shocking new radio exposé, reveals her findings" (Sieghart 2022). Read more

Supervisor: Dr H Gørrill

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Weather, climate, human impacts and human responses in early modern Scotland (c.1600-c.1700).

University of Dundee School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

This project is relevant to the interdisciplinary research theme of climate action and net zero. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A MacDonald

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Transnational social movements and the struggles against settler colonialism in Southern Africa

University of Dundee School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

The project provides an opportunity to examine the roles, motivations, and impacts of twentieth century transnational social movements, that were involved in the struggles to end white-minority rule in Southern Africa (eg. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Graham

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Transition Engineering Lab on the Housing Ecosystem. The Problem of Finding an Affordable, Decent Place to Live, within a Net Zero Community. A breakthrough in the accelerated transition of cities to net zero, thriving environments

Heriot-Watt University School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

Research Group: Institute of Life and Earth Sciences

This project will be based at Heriot Watt Orkney campus. Rapid emissions reductions[1] require transition of personal transport and freight, and reduction of energy in buildings and embedded in vehicles, and construction in urban areas. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Krumdieck

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

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EPSRC DTP PhD Project: Physics-based and data-driven approach to understanding and predicting thermomechanical properties of ceramic matrix composites

University of Bath Department of Mechanical Engineering

The department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath is inviting applications for the following fully funded PhD project/studentship, expected to commence September/October 2024. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Y Chen, Dr AL Leide

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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Exploring the value of using large third-party artificial intelligence models in epidemiology, with examples using Twitter/X data

University of Bristol Bristol Medical School

Large language models (LLMs) are an artificial intelligence approach that typically have a very large number of parameters (e.g. millions or billions) and have been trained on extremely large datasets. Read more

Supervisor: Dr L Millard

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

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Diagnostics for FMF patients and carrier survival in pandemics

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Background. Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a rare inherited genetic disease where patients acquire a mutation on the pyrin gene leading to excessive inflammasome activation and excessive inflammation. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Arkwright, Dr G Lopez-Castejon, Dr J Cavet

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

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Updating the background characteristics and risk factors associated with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) to inform risk-reduction messages and help target vulnerable families

University of Bristol Bristol Medical School

Our team has been instrumental in reducing the number of cot deaths (SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) in England & Wales by 90% over the last three decades.[1] The remaining 2-300 unexpected infant deaths per year show a marked inequality, largely coming from socio-economically deprived communities. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P Blair

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

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PhD Opportunities in English, History and Performance

Sheffield Hallam University Humanities Research Centre

We warmly invite applications for full-time or part-time self-funded PhD study. About the PhD programme. The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) at Sheffield Hallam University was founded in 1996. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only) Humanities Research Programme

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PhD Opportunities in Art, Media Arts and Design

Sheffield Hallam University Art, Design & Media Research Centre

We invite applications for full-time or part-time self-funded PhD study. . About the PhD programme . Read more

Funded PhD Programme (UK Students Only) Arts Research Programme

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The Controlled Synthesis of Polycatenanes – mechanically interlocked materials with designer properties

University of Birmingham School of Chemistry

Background – the challenge of polycatenane synthesis. Linking rings in a chain is a familiar concept in the macroscopic world. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Goldup

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Stereoselective synthesis of mechanically chiral molecules for sensing and catalysis

University of Birmingham School of Chemistry

Background – the stereoselective synthesis of mechanically chiral molecules. The stereoselective synthesis of chiral organic molecules is one of the core challenges in synthetic organic chemistry. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Goldup

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Mechanochemistry and the mechanical bond – sustainable methods for the synthesis of functional rotaxanes and catenanes

University of Birmingham School of Chemistry

Background. Molecules are mechanically bonded if they are composed of two covalent subcomponents that are threaded through one another such that they can never separate even though there is no covalent bond between them. Read more

Supervisors: Prof S Goldup, Dr D C Crawford

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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