PhD topics for research students

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Description
Supervisor
Funding
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
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
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