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PhD topics for research students

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

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The role of PE/PPE proteins in tuberculosis
Tuberculosis remains one of the world’s biggest killers due to an infectious disease. There remains an urgent need for the development of effective vaccines and novel drug targets against the disease....
Self Funded
Generative AI for Digital Marketing
In the domain of digital marketing, the integration of Generative AI presents an opportunity to enhance customer engagement, personalise marketing strategies, and optimise decision-making processes. B...
Self Funded
Advanced Deep Learning for Medical Imaging
Medical imaging seeks to reveal the structures and activities inside the human body that are normally invisible behind other body parts such as skin and bones. With a wide range of imaging technologie...
Self Funded
NLP for Business Intelligence
Business operations involve a large amount of data from their internal communications, presentations, reports, accounting and marketing, and external information from governments, industry sectors, cu...
Self Funded
The effect on genome behaviour of growing cells in 3D matricies
There has been a small amount of evidence in the literature that growing cells in 3D scaffolds instead of 2D monolayers alters genome behaviour and organisation such that nuclear structure is altered ...
Self Funded
Decision making for stratified medicine life cycle
Stratified medicine is at the cutting edge of a new era in healthcare, which targets to a specific patient population on the basis of a companion diagnostic (such as a biomarker) to predict treatment ...
Self Funded
Decision making for stratified medicine life cycle
Stratified medicine is at the cutting edge of a new era in healthcare, which targets to a specific patient population on the basis of a companion diagnostic (such as a biomarker) to predict treatment ...
Self Funded
Machine learning approaches in health data science for risk prediction of cardiovascular diseases
Cardiovascular disease is killing over 17 million people in the world. almost a third of the death from cardiovascular diseases occur suddenly without prior signs and symptoms or diagnosis of any hear...
Self Funded
How do individual histone modifications help cells make decisions?
We are looking for a highly-motivated, independent-thinking candidate to undertake a PhD project exploring the role of individual histone modifications in nuclear organisation, regulation of transcrip...
Self Funded
The impact of heat stress on human health, performance, and function across the lifecourse
The interaction between climate change, ageing, and sedentary behaviour mean the elderly are a highly vulnerable cohort for heat-related illness. This is a pressing public health concern given the num...
Self Funded