All funded PhD projects
Postgraduate
All projects open to UK and EU students only, except where stated.
For further eligibility details, please check the individual project page.
Accounting and Financial Management
Architecture
Area Studies, History, Politics and Literature
- The policy impacts of mental health and wellbeing in Higher Education in the UK*
- Examining the changing nature of student political activism through student's voices, c.1945-2000*
- ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP) open call*
*Open to UK students only
Art, Design and Performance
- Art, Design and Performance open call
- Remaking and upcycling fashion and textiles: investigating the role of design and social enterprise in shaping the transition to a circular economy
Biological Sciences
- 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
- Designing and evolving plastic-degrading enzymes for new function
- Structural and biophysical characterisation of novel plastic degrading enzymes
Civil Engineering and Surveying
- An artificially intelligent camera imaging algorithm for monitoring multi-scale damage
- Fibre reinforced concrete: structural design for reducing carbon footprint
- Civil Engineering open call
Computing
- 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
- Computing open call
- Smart Hallway – the use of AI in patient monitoring*
*Open to UK, EU and International students
Creative Technologies
Economics and Finance
- Privatising Gains and Socialising Losses (PGSL) in economic decision-making*
- Money for nothing, innovation for free? The role of research funding in research output*
- Assessing the impact of crowdfunded microfinance on entrepreneurs in developing countries*
*Open to UK, EU and International students
Education and Sociology
- Mental health, wellbeing and resilience of care leavers: Making sense of their perspectives*
- Universities as transformative sustainability leaders**
*Open to UK students only; **Open to UK, EU and international students
Energy and Electrical Engineering
Environment, Geography and Geosciences
- Fibrous minerals in the environment – occurrence, longevity and risk to human health
- The experimental effects of wave processes on arthropod taphonomy: implications for Lagerstätten and Small Carbonaceous Fossils
- The role of environmental quality, economic success and social inclusion in sustainability transformation*
- Transformative blue governance*
*Open to UK, EU and International students
Film, Media and Communication
Health and Care Professions
Marketing
- Engaging consumers in CSR dialogue through social media: the power of "plastics in the oceans" trend*
- Aligning luxury and sustainability through Practice Theory*
*Open to UK, EU and International students
Mathematics and Physics
- Quantum simulation of complex quantum processes on superconducting qubits
- Development of multicaloric technologies for low carbon efficient cooling and heating systems
- Mathematics and Physics open call
Mechanical and Design Engineering
- 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
- In-silico assessment tool for reducing the risk of failure of arterio-venous fistula (AVF) in patients subjected to haemodialysis
- Mechanical and Design Engineering open call
- Bioprinting to treat osteochondral defects*
- Enhanced endoscopic screening of polyps in the upper gastrointestinal tract*
- Strain measurement in soft tissues and biomaterials using high-resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) and digital volume correlation (DVC)*
*Open to UK, EU and International students
Operations and Systems Management
*Open to UK, EU and International students
Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
- The role of mitochondrial mutations in the prognosis and treatment of glioblastoma
- 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
- Exploring the genome architecture of plastic-degrading bacteria
- Molecular mechanisms of cognitive impairment caused by DMD gene mutations*
- DMD gene in development and cancer*
- Role of DMD gene in development and function of white blood cells*
- Role of bacteria-purinoceptor interactions in pathological changes leading to implant failure*
- Muscle attachments to implants*
- Overcoming the barriers to brain delivery; bioengineering 3D printed microfluidic chips to continuous manufacture targeted nanoparticles and elucidate their nose to brain permeability*
- Adhesion of tissues to percutaneous implants*
*Open to UK, EU and International students
Psychology
- Psychology open call
- Outsmarting the liars in collective interviewing to facilitate lie detection*
- It takes two to tango: Understanding autistic people’s mental states and facial expressions*
- Can virtual reality (VR) help motivate and support marginalised young people to reduce risky behaviour?*
- Stakeholder engagement for employment of autistic adults*
- An evidence-based approach to promoting honesty in child witnesses*
- Examining the utility of individuating strategies in collaborative recall contexts*
- Scaffolding memory accuracy in ageing: The role of metacognition, strategies, and memory aids*
- Development and individual differences in understanding and contagion of others’ affective and cognitive states*
- ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP) open call*
*Open to UK students only
