PhD student projects

PhD students are a very welcome addition to our research community and we are happy to engage them in excellent research alongside our academic staff members. Below you will find a list of some of the currently available research activities for PhD students.

Please contact the supervisors listed below to discuss each project in more detail and for help with developing a suitable research statement for the project.

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Applications for education and/or healthcare: Exploring the potential of ‘human-like’ computing
We invite applications from candidates that have an interest in the area of artificially intelligent human-like computing and exploring the potential of designing, developing, and evaluating prototype...

Arthur Money

Self Funded

PhD in transforming education with generative AI technologies
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Brunel Business School, focusing on the transformative potential of generative AI technologies in education. This research project aims to explore h...

Arthur Money

Self Funded

Artificially intelligent conversational agents: exploring their value in education and/or healthcare
Artificially intelligent conversational agents (such as ChatGPT) are becoming increasingly common in our everyday lives. The benefits of using these technologies are becoming clear in a range of comme...

Arthur Money

Self Funded

Digital Therapeutics: Exploring the Role of Technology in Mental Health and Wellbeing Practice
The mental health landscape in the UK is changing rapidly, shaped by rising demand for services, shifting societal attitudes and fast‑moving technological innovation. Digital tools - from mobile apps...

Hemamali Tennakoon Mudiyanselage

Self-Funded

PhD project in human augmentation through artificial intelligence (AI)
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Department of Computer Science at Brunel University of London, focusing on integrating AI into human augmentation. This research project aims to exp...

Fotios Spyridonis
Yongmin Li

Self Funded

PhD opportunity in UX/UI design with interactive and generative AI
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Department of Computer Science at Brunel University of London, focusing on integrating AI into UX/UI design. This research project aims to improve U...

Yongmin Li
Fotios Spyridonis

Self Funded

AI-Driven Multimodal Biomedical Data Fusion
Technological advances in biomedicine now enable the collection of high-dimensional, heterogeneous data across multiple platforms, including imaging, genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics and clinic...

Yongmin Li
Doreen Lau

Self Funded

Developing Machine Learning (ML) Models for Contextually Appropriate Alt Text Generation and Evaluation
Alternative text (alt text) plays a vital role in web accessibility, providing descriptions of images for screen reader users, especially those who are blind or visually impaired. However, current mac...

Fotios Spyridonis
Damon Daylamani-Zad

Self Funded

Remote VR-Enabled Interpersonal Coordination for Perceptual-Motor Rehabilitation
The successful candidate will support research in the Interdisciplinary Development of Remote Virtual Reality Enabled Interpersonal Coordination Assessment and Intervention Platform in the Health Scie...

Nadine Aburumman
Dominic Orth

Self Funded

Telecontrol with XR for Remote Human-Robot Interaction
The integration of extended reality (XR) technologies with intelligent systems offers new frontiers in remote operation and control, especially for environments that are hazardous, inaccessible, or re...

Nadine Aburumman
Tatiana Kalganova

Self Funded

Fully-funded studentships

Modelling the PhAse BehaviouR of Impure CO₂ Streams for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Applications (MARCO2S)

Our funded studentships become available at different times of the year. Please keep checking our page regularly to see the latest funded opportunities. We also advertise all our funded studentships as soon as they become available on the @BrunelResearch twitter account.

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