PhD topics for research students

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

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Partnerships and Power Dynamics in Sport for Development: Implications for Capacity Building
Partnerships play a significant role in Sport for Development (SfD) initiatives, yet they often involve complex power dynamics that affect decision-making, resource allocation and ultimately may impa...

Tarryn Godfrey

Self Funded

Psychological Stress and Performance in Sport
Potential project 1: To further establish the construct validity of the Three-Factor Anxiety Inventory (TFAI). Using longitudinal quantitative data with UK university and elite sporting cohorts, confi...

Rich Mullen

Self Funded

Limiting sedentary behaviour and increasing physical activity to managing long-term conditions
The PhD will investigate sedentary behaviour and physical activity in the management of long-term conditions. This may include studying one of the following conditions: Frailty Sarcopenia Multipl...

Daniel Bailey

Self Funded

Exploring the use of immersive technology for talent development, rehabilitation, and competition preparation in high-performance sport
High-performance contexts such as elite football and professional motorsport demand innovation across all aspects of participation to continue to ‘push the needle’ and raise the standards of sporting...

Adam Bruton
Carla Harkness-Armstrong

Self Funded

The influence of cognitive dual-tasks on eye movements
Navigating the world whilst completing secondary tasks is a daily occurrence. Previous research has shown that completing a cognitive task alongside a motor task can lead to alterations in walking an...

Liam O'Reilly
Adam Cocks

Self Funded

The Impact of Heat Stress on Human Health, Performance and Function
Applications are invited from candidates seeking to undertake a focused programme of work related to the above areas using robust sport, health and exercise physiology methods to examine the effects o...

Oliver Gibson

Self Funded

Respiratory responses and limitations to exercise
The aim of this project is to determine how healthy ageing influences the dynamic contractile properties of the respiratory muscles. Using advanced assessment techniques, we will comprehensively eval...

Lee Romer

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 London, focusing on integrating AI into human augmentation. This research project aims to explor...

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