Explore our PhD projects

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• Country by Country reporting: challenges and implication

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Accounting postgraduate research page.

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• Funded PhD opportunities in Architecture, Interiors and Urbanism (open call)

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• Revitalising Frozen Architecture - Recording the non-physical significance of ruins

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Architecture, Interiors and Urbanism postgraduate research page.

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• Fully-funded PhD Bursaries in Humanities and Social Sciences for minoritised ethnic candidates (open call)

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• Mapping the linkages in the Political Violence of Southeast Asia’s Authoritarian (re)turn

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Area Studies postgraduate research page postgraduate research page.

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• Funded PhD opportunities in Art and Design: History, Theory and Practice (open call)

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• Craft and Code: Materialising Data Through Textiles
• Visualising History

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Art and Design: History, Theory and Practice postgraduate research page.

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• Disentangling trophic interactions within spider communities, with implications for the evolution of group living, and for using spiders for biological pest control
• Climate Change Mitigation in the Isle of Wight Marine Biosphere, Solent
• Disentangling the origin and diversification of orchids in the Caribbean biodiversity hotspot
  
   

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• Quantifying the marine ecosystem functions and services provided by restoration of biogenic native oyster reefs in European temperate coastal systems
• Modern molecular techniques for old domestic breeds at heritage sites
• Assessing the capacity of seagrass meadows in the Solent (UK) for blue carbon sequestration
• The spread and persistence of antimicrobial resistance genes in aquatic environments
• Pollination precision, phenotypic specialisation and species diversification in triggerplants: A critical evaluation of the Grant-Stebbins model of plant diversification
• The effects of neurological drugs (antidepressants) on aquatic wildlife
• The Asian date mussel: understanding a new and severe threat to Europe’s benthic habitats and blue economies
• Identification, validation and characterisation of i-motif promoter elements in vertebrate genomes
• Restoring degraded ecosystem: artificial reefs as carbon sink and habitat builders in leisure marinas
• Harvesting the seashore: the impacts and management of inter-tidal fisheries

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Biological Sciences postgraduate research page.

Funded projects

• Remaking Fashion: Exploring design thinking and business innovation in a circular economy for fashion
• Equitable Climate Change Transitions in Small Island Developing States

Self-funded projects

• Investigating migrant response networks: Management, economic and political challenges
• Multinational Enterprises and Sustainable Development Goals in countries with fragile institutions
• Performance measurement for social entrepreneurial ventures in the UK: the role of business model design in business growth and social impact generation
  
  

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Business and Management postgraduate research page.

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• Explore our funded PhD projects in Civil Engineering

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• Development of the prefabricated incremental adaptable modular housing units with the support of the digital twinning technology
• Water Management System for Mineral Handling Operations
• Developing a sustainable mixed-use regeneration strategy for historic industrial-military heritage in southern England
• An artificially intelligent camera imaging algorithm for monitoring multi-scale damage
• Advanced engineering analysis of chalk in construction
• Incorporating water leakage reduction in the automatic creation of water supply zones
• Predicting building performance in future climate change scenarios: a comparative study of actual and simulated data
• Soil reinforcement interaction mechanics
• The Combined Effect of Blast and Thermal Loading on Structural Connections
• Transparent soil modelling of soil-structure interaction under dynamic conditions
• Use of Iterative multi-parametric design enabling tools for the optimisation of structural response and seismic behaviour
• Using simulation to design comfortable housing for the poor in the low income tropics
• The use of 3-D modelling of flow patterns and pollutant retention to optimize the layout of vegetated detention ponds
• Characterisation and applications of trommel fines derived from recycling of construction, demolition and excavation wastes
• Exploiting Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technology: Blueprint for a new AEC Industry

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Civil Engineering postgraduate research page.

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• Modelling strategic management with multiple intelligent agents
• Dynamic rail timetabling to improve punctuality and sustainability
• Development of a framework for IoT Forensics
• Multimodal Motion Analysis for Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Robot Control
• Ambient Assisted Living Technologies
• Mutation Testing and Analysis with Application to Smart Energy Systems
• Hybrid AI for image interpretation and isotopic identification
• Semantic Identification of objects of interest using Convoluted Neural Networks
• Outcome and Mortality Prediction in Intensive Care Units using Machine Learning
• Improving EV critical infrastructure resilience through AI-powered IoT system vulnerability assessment
• Investigating state interference on Twitter
• Machine learning approach to identifying side channel attacks on cloud computer systems
• Analysing security and reliability effects of mutations in communication protocols
• A framework for security policy definition and enforcement in database-defined networks
• Deep learning for pattern recognition, identification, And classification from big datasets
• Self-Learning for computer vision asset management
• Ambient assisted living with multiview low data rate imaging
• Recognising routines in video for safe ambient assisted living
• Property preserving refinements in formal software engineering
• Consumer decision making based on cutting-edge digital technologies and sustainable retailing models
• AI for energy reconstruction in detectors for nuclear medicine
• The problem of anonymisation on graph data
• Personalized health early warning measure
• A novel deep learning framework for user identification via their network activities
• Cyber threats prediction using experience sharing model and ensemble learning algorithms
• Blocks-based environments for learning programming in text-based languages
• Integrated AI framework for grasp and manipulation of intelligent robots
• Exploring the impact of information standards and computerised health records upon inpatient medicines optimisation: Improving shared understanding for patients and practitioners
• Deep Learning for Pattern Recognition Identification and Classification from Big Datasets
• A Novel Framework for Robot Training and Tutoring Using Natural Language
• Analytics Theory and Applications for Teaching Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Multi-modal Intelligent Sensing and Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction collaboration
• Integrating User Generated Online Content in Software Development Processes
• Self-adaptive machine learning methods for outcome prediction in real-world complex datasets
• Ambient Assisted Living with Multiview Low Data Rate Imaging
• Clinical outcome modelling
• Energy-aware routing for wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring
• Emerging and future technologies for visualisation

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Computing postgraduate research page.

Self-funded

• The Supernova Simulator: testing AI learning for target location and character across scales in space and time

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Cosmology and Astrophysics postgraduate research page.

Funded 

• The Co-Production of Forgiveness in Community Justice: A Phenomenological Study
• Improving the Sustainability of Forensic Consumables: A case study approach to support the design and implementation of environmentally friendly consumables for forensic packaging
• Fully-funded PhD Bursaries in Humanities and Social Sciences for minoritised ethnic candidates (open call)

There are currently no pre-approved projects available in this subject area. If you'd like to submit your own PhD proposal, please head to our Criminology postgraduate research page for more information.

There are currently no pre-approved projects available in this subject area. If you'd like to submit your own PhD proposal, please head to our Dental and Oral Health postgraduate research page for more information.

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• Funded PhD opportunities in Digital and Creative Technologies (open call)

Self-funded

• A flexible framework for unlocking potential in big data pipelines through machine learning and visualisation
• Better Understanding Anxiety Triggers of Autistic Individuals in Everyday Scenarios through Immersive Environments and Psychophysiological Principles
• Enhancing Forensic Science Education and Skills Training with Immersive and Interactive Technologies
• Realtime 3D Facial Animation
• Software Design and Development as an Intrinsic Part of the Compositional Process (Music/Sound)

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Digital and Creative Technologies postgraduate research page.

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Self-funded

• Development and Growth of a Neoproterozoic Active Plate Margin
• Fast repetition rate fluorometry as an early warning system for algal blooms in rivers
• Granites from the Mantle – the xenolith perspective
• High-resolution palynology of the London clay formation, and calibration of near infrared (NIR) data
• New Accessory Mineral Records of Early Lunar Evolution
• Coupled thermo-fluid-mechanics of thermally stressed granite for Hot Dry Rock geothermal reservoir applications
• Bone-metal (brittle-elastic) bond durability and fatigue derived from coupled Acoustic Emission and X-ray computed tomography

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Earth and Environmental Sciences postgraduate research page.

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• Understanding productivity dynamics and resilience in Indian enterprises
• Equitable Climate Change Transitions in Small Island Developing States

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• Behavioural Economics
• Competition and Financial Stability: A Comparative Study of the Banking Systems.
• Energy and the macroeconomy
• Evaluation of active tourism as a policy initiative to influence the effects of an ageing population
• International Trade and Development
• Network Economics
• The Economics of FinTech and Digital Money

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Economics postgraduate research page.

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• Going to School in Portsmouth: Children’s Experience of Education
• Fully-funded PhD Bursaries in Humanities and Social Sciences for minoritised ethnic candidates (open call)

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• The creative and social renewal of classical music: examining an education programme for racial diversity in music

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Education postgraduate research page.

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Explore funded PhD projects in Electronic Engineering. 

Self-funded

• Noise analysis and management in Intensive Care Units
• Ultra-­low cost passive multi-­input-­multi-­output (MIMO) radar

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Electronic Engineering postgraduate research page.

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• Modelling of multi-MW scale hybrid power plant using solid oxide fuel cells and lithium ion batteries to displace diesel as back-up power for charging of electric boats and electric vehicles at various ports, towns and cities in the UK.
• Underground Hydrogen Storage: A Mathematical Study of Hydrogen Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

There are currently no pre-approved projects available in this subject area. If you'd like to submit your own PhD proposal, please head to our Energy Engineering postgraduate research page for more information.

Funded projects

• Fully-funded PhD Bursaries in Humanities and Social Sciences for minoritised ethnic candidates (open call)

There are currently no pre-approved projects available in this subject area. If you'd like to submit your own PhD proposal, please head to our English Literature postgraduate research page for more information.

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• Funded PhD opportunities in Film and Media Studies (open call)

Self-funded

• Competition and financial stability: A comparative study of the banking systems

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Finance postgraduate research page.

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• Explore funded PhD projects in Health Informatics. 

Self-funded projects

• Clinical data science: Developing a patient trend monitoring tool
• Clinical data science: Developing a mortality prediction tool
• Exploring the impact of information standards and computerised health records upon inpatient medicines optimisation: Improving shared understanding for patients and practitioners
• Analytics Theory and Applications for Teaching Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Ambient Assisted Living with Multiview Low Data Rate Imaging
• Clinical outcome modelling
• Energy-aware routing for wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Health Informatics postgraduate research page.

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• Implications of shock-absorbing floors on hospital patients and staff
• The influence of elimination-related environmental features on falls and injuries in older adults

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Health and Social Care postgraduate research page.

Funded projects

• Fully-funded PhD Bursaries in Humanities and Social Sciences for minoritised ethnic candidates (open call)

There are currently no pre-approved projects available in this subject area. If you'd like to submit your own PhD proposal, please head to our History postgraduate research page for more information.

Funded projects

• Remaking Fashion: Exploring design thinking and business innovation in a circular economy for fashion

Self-funded projects

• CSR-isation in developing countries: Governmentalisation or responsive governance

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management postgraduate research page.

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• Funded PhD opportunities in Journalism, Communication and Creative Writing (open call)

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• Fully-funded PhD Bursaries in Humanities and Social Sciences for minoritised ethnic candidates (open call)

There are currently no pre-approved projects available in this subject area. If you'd like to submit your own PhD proposal, please head to our Languages and Applied Linguistics page for more information.

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• Children's experiences of participation in private law hearings

Self-funded projects

• Empirical Approaches to Constitutional Law
• Equality law after Brexit
• Free movement and the UK welfare state
• Regulating Posthumous Medical Data Donation (PMDD)

To submit your own PhD proposal - or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees - please visit our Law postgraduate research page

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• Consumer engagement in cause-related marketing: the positive outcomes of consumer empowerment and personal relevance

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• Applications of Sustainable Brand Development Goals on Consumer Behaviour
• Consumers' emotion work
• Engaging consumers in CSR dialogue through social media: The power of plastic in the oceans trend
• Improving the health and wellbeing of vulnerable consumers with a technology-led health intervention: a social marketing approach
• Responsible luxury: Aligning luxury and sustainability through Practice Theory

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Marketing postgraduate research page.

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• Explore funded PhD projects in Mathematics.

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• Integrability in nonlinear systems
• Geometric aspects of complex differential equations
• Design and analysis of inventory policies for a remanufacturing system that models returns from past sales
• Using deep learning to optimise the large-scale vehicle routing problems
• Resilient pharmaceutical supply chain design – Case studies in drug discovery
• Metric techniques in topological data analysis
• Quantum simulation of complex quantum processes on superconducting qubits
• Development of multicaloric technologies for low carbon efficient cooling and heating systems
• Renormalisation in dynamical systems
• Resilient pharmaceutical supply chain design – case studies in drug discovery
• Mathematical Foundations of Topological Data Analysis; Theory & Applications
• Complex differential equations with algebraic singularities
• Gaining insight into the dynamics of drug-cancer cell interactions with the aid of continuous and hybrid multiscale models
• Data-driven spatial models of human societies

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Mathematics postgraduate research page.

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• Explore funded PhD projects in Mechanical and Design Engineering. 

Self-funded

• Bio-polymer based multi-functional disposable face mask with biodegradability
• Fluid-structure modelling of spring mounted wings aimed at drag reduction
• Development of a non-destructive testing strategy for effective detection of defects in additively manufactured stainless steel parts using selective laser melting process
• Musculoskeletal modelling of human responses to mechanical shocks on fast marine crafts
• Machinability of GLARE fibre metal laminates and its constituents for aerospace applications using experimental and numerical techniques
• Study of the effect of bond parameters on the sensitivity of adhesive joints performance for wind turbine blade repairs
• Guidance, navigation and control strategies for seakeeping and shock mitigation of fast marine crafts
• Carotid Artery Haemodynamic Simulation and Atherosclerosis Development
• Development of lightweight high performance sustainable composites for transport applications
• Fluid Structure Interaction of composite materials
• Numerical modelling of energy storage systems
• Development of New Design and Manufacturing Strategy for Additive Manufacturing 3D Metal Printing
• Collision avoidance and assistance for powered wheelchairs and vehicles
• Developing a computational tool to predict the optimal location for arterio-venous fistula (AVF) creation in end stage renal failure and haemodialysis patients
• Modelling the Fluid-Structure Interaction of membranes with anisotropic material properties to provide performance improvements
• Investigating the physiological deformation of heart valves using in vivo and in vitro techniques
• Phase field modelling of selective laser melting (SLM) process coupled with CFD simulation
• A stereo vision based craft shock correlation on rough sea

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Mechanical and Design Engineering postgraduate research page.

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• A data-driven decision support system for optimising prostate biopsy techniques
• Equitable Climate Change Transitions in Small Island Developing States
• Freight micro-consolidation for last mile delivery in the Solent region
• Incorporating remanufacturing in a periodic review inventory system: Optimal and heuristic inventory control policies
• Optimising the Vehicle Ferry Loading
• Real-time drone routing and scheduling for medical logistics in the Solent region

Self funded

• Intelligent port logistics

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Operational research and logistics postgraduate research page.

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• Electrification of transportation in Smart Cities: A multi-objective approach to design and locate charging facilities

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Operations and Systems Management postgraduate research page.

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•  Development of novel dietary polyphenol-based colon-targeted delivery system for colon cancer treatment 

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• An in-vivo but non-animal test system for cell recruitment and cell integration into the heart
• The role of P2X7 purinoceptor-bacteria interactions in the pathophysiology and treatment of Periodontitis
• The role of Gas6 as a mediator of repair in demyelinating disease of the CNS
• Targeting the GAS6-Tam receptor signalling pathway in cancer
• High-Throughput Discovery of Novel Antibiotics
• Design Synthesis and Biochemical Evaluation
• Nanoparticles for Imaging and Drug Delivery Applications
• The role of membrane transport in microbal pathogenesis
• Molecular Mechanisms to Ensure Long-term Healthy Outcomes from Faecal Transplants
• Validation of potassium channels from pathogenic fungi as promising new targets for antifungal therapies
• Developing self-assembled peptide nanomaterials as targeted endocrine therapies for tumours
• Developing Novel Approaches to Muscle Disease
• The integration of signalling cascades in synovial joints – a role for Dact genes?
• Genetic-proteomic Analyses of P2X7 Receptors in Health and Disease
• Nasal Delivery of Peptide Nanofibers for Acute Ischaemic Stroke
• Implications of mitochondrial redox status and mitophagy in cancer cells survival

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Biomedical Sciences postgraduate research page.

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• Identifying tempo and magnitude of abrupt environmental changes of the last 15 kyrs by using tephrostratigraphic links in palaeoclimate records from southern England

Self-funded projects

Physical Geography

• Bioprotection or biodeteroriation? The contradictory role of microbiological activity in heritage stone decay under changing climates
• Conservation of Cultural Heritage
• Geoconservation of Rocky Coasts
• Global and Regional Temperature Change in Mountainous Regions
• Measuring and Modelling Surface Temperatures in Areas of Complex Relief
• Past Wildfire Histories
• Urban Ecological Networks
• Exploring tephrostratigraphic links of climate records in southern England with continental Europe for the last 15,000 years
• Fibrous minerals in the environment – occurrence, longevity and risk to human health

Human Geography

• International, local and regional economic resilience to Covid-19
• Gamification of Society
• Graduate Self-employment and Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy
• How Can Economic Growth Become More Inclusive?
• Understanding and shaping space and society through playful activities
• The geographies of labour and working lives

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Physical and Human Geography postgraduate research page.

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• Quantum optical networking and communication

Self-funded

• Quantum sensing with squeezed light
• Quantum computational supremacy in multiphoton interferometry
• Quantum simulation of complex quantum processes on superconducting qubits
• Development of multicaloric technologies for low carbon efficient cooling and heating systems
• Renormalization in dynamical systems
• Resilient pharmaceutical supply chain design – case studies in drug discovery
• Complex differential equations with algebraic singularities
• Gaining insight into the dynamics of drug-cancer cell interactions with the aid of continuous and hybrid multiscale models
• Data-driven spatial models of human societies

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Physics postgraduate research page.

Funded

• Fully-funded PhD Bursaries in Humanities and Social Sciences for minoritised ethnic candidates (open call)

Self-funded

• Taboo or Not Taboo? Mapping the Use of Chemical Weapons and Deterring Future Threats in the 21st Century
• Mapping the linkages in the Political Violence of Southeast Asia’s Authoritarian (re)turn

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Politics and International Relations postgraduate research page.

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• The evolutionary roots of overcoming the tragedy of commons: An investigation of social strategies in chimpanzees
• Pain and moral decision making
• Beyond the dyad: Development of task co-representation of multiple co-actors across cultures
  

Self-funded

• Understanding The Psychobiological Mechanisms That Influence Binge Drinking Behaviour
• The importance of visibility of the face and eyes for human-unique collaborative efficacy
• Scaffolding memory accuracy in ageing: The role of metacognition, strategies, and memory aids

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Psychology postgraduate research page.

Funded projects

• Stigma Power and obesity: a narrative analysis of comparative policy responses and individual’s stories
• Fully-funded PhD Bursaries in Humanities and Social Sciences for minoritised ethnic candidates (open call)

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Sociology postgraduate research page.

Funded

• Vascular function during head-down tilt lithotomy position surgery: understanding and avoiding a surgical disaster

Self-funded

• An examination of the individual and environmental factors influencing the visual control of braking during cycling: implications for city planning
• Understanding the mental health experiences of male and female sports officials: A comparative analysis across sport

To submit your own PhD proposal – or for more information about our postgraduate research degrees – please visit our Sport and Exercise Science postgraduate research page.

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• Funded PhD opportunities in Performance, Theatre and Music (open call)