Research Degrees

PhD research student applications are welcomed by the HCI Research Group all year round.  Research students are valued members of our thriving, research-intensive team. We are particularly interested in supervising students' research in any of the broad range of topics listed below. Please note that the topic list is not exhaustive, so feel free to contact a member of HCI with your ideas. 

Some candidate PhD topics that group members are interested in supervising in the future may include, but are not limited to:

  • Digital Financial Services
  • Mobile Money/ Currencies
  • Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Interactions
  • Video Production
  • Family and Domestic Technologies
  • In-vehicle Interactions

See below a list of available PhD projects in Computer Science that includes projects in our area:

Description
Supervisor
Funding
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