PhD topics for research students

Find below a list of currently available self-funded PhD topics.

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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

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

3D printing of scaffolds for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
This project aims to develop multifunctional novel bioactive tissue scaffolds using 3D printing, biomaterials science and controlled drug delivery systems to enhance tissue regeneration. Tissue scaffo...

Self Funded

Artificial Intelligence and Financial Markets
The introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming very significantly financial markets. For instance, market everyday activities are now often carried out using AI-driven trading desks ...

Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Anamaria Diana Sova

Self-Funded

Climate Risk and Financial Markets
In recent decades climate change and global warming have become key issues for the planet Earth. To tackle their negative effects, various commitments have been made by world leaders at meetings spons...

Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Anamaria Diana Sova

Self-Funded

Central Bank Communication, Corporate Investment and the Macro-financial Transmission Mechanism
Central banks have moved far beyond interest-rate decisions as their primary tool of influence: forward guidance, press conferences, speeches, and published risk assessments now shape expectations and...

Stylianos Asimakopoulos

Self-Funded

Biodiversity Risk, Corporate Finance and the Cost of Capital
Biodiversity loss is increasingly recognised by financial regulators, central banks and international bodies such as the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) as a material source o...

Stylianos Asimakopoulos

Self-Funded

Relational Capital, Institutional Frictions, and Corporate Finance in Emerging Markets
This PhD topic examines how firms operate and make financial and operational decisions in environments characterised by institutional frictions, weak formal institutions, and regulatory uncertainty. T...

Kyriacos Kyriacou
Bryan Mase
Siming Liu

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