PhD topics for research students

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Supervisor
Funding
Innovative Healthcare and Health Policy
The future of healthcare demands transformative solutions integrating AI, workforce optimization, and business innovation to enhance health policy effectiveness. This PhD project explores how AI-drive...
Catia Nicodemo
Self Funded
Comparative Health Policy Analysis: Tackling the Economic Burden of Aging Populations and Chronic Diseases
The global rise in aging populations and chronic diseases poses unprecedented economic and healthcare challenges. This PhD project conducts a cross-national comparison of health policies to evaluate t...
Catia Nicodemo
Self Funded
Optimizing Healthcare Systems: Business Strategies for Cost Efficiency and Sustainable Management
The rising cost of healthcare demands innovative business and management solutions to enhance efficiency without compromising quality. This PhD project explores how strategic healthcare management, da...
Catia Nicodemo
Self Funded
AI Companionship and the Future of Human Connection
The “AI Futures: Companionship, Connection, and Careers” project investigates how artificial intelligence—particularly in the form of companion technologies—is reshaping emotional, social, and profess...
Ming-Yao Jen
Self Funded
Entrepreneurship for Coastal Resilience: “Blue” Entrepreneurship Education to Revitalise UK Coastal Communities
This proposed PhD project investigates how entrepreneurship education can be designed and implemented to support the revitalisation of UK coastal communities. It aims to develop a place-based framewor...
Carolin Decker-Lange
Self Funded
Ocean Impact Start-ups – Ocean Health and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
The global ocean, a vast and vital ecosystem, faces unprecedented threats from climate change, pollution, and overexploitation. As a result, there is a growing need for innovative solutions to address...
Carolin Decker-Lange
Self Funded
Sustainability in the Global Shipbuilding Industry
The global shipbuilding industry plays a crucial role in international trade and economic growth. However, it also contributes significantly to environmental pollution, resource depletion, and social ...
Carolin Decker-Lange
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
AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled autonomous robots for non-disruptive inspection of utility and sewage systems
Traditional manual maintenance of pipelines which requires digging of ground to get access to pipelines is ineffective because of safety issues, high cost and limited human vision. Thus, serious fault...
Md Nazmul Huda
Self Funded