PhD student projects

PhD students are a very welcome addition to our research community and we are happy to engage them in excellent research alongside our academic staff members. Below you will find a list of some of the currently available research activities for PhD students.

Please contact the supervisors listed below to discuss each project in more detail and for help with developing a suitable research statement for the project.

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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

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

Effects of environmental heat stress on respiratory health
Climate change dictates that global average environmental temperatures are going to increase in the 21st century and heatwaves are going to become more frequent, intense and long-lasting. Respiratory ...

Self Funded

Understanding the mechanisms behind age-related balance and movement change, and/or exploring strategies to improve balance, function, and wellbeing in the older adult population
Doctoral researchers working in this area will conduct experimental research, exploring the underpinning reasons (mechanisms) for increased falls risk, and/or functional movement change in the older a...

Daniel Low

Self Funded

Testing the efficacy of virtual reality and action simulation training for improving balance in children/young adults with movement coordination difficulties
Motor coordination difficulties such as developmental coordination disorder (DCD) are characterised by problems with movement planning, execution and control. Children and young adults with DCD are mo...

Adam Bruton
Carla Harkness-Armstrong
Aliah Shaheen
Rebecca Hings

Self Funded

Fully-funded studentships

ESRC Funded Studentships in Health & Wellbeing at Brunel University London via the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership.

Capacity Building in Sport for Development: Contexts, Challenges and Change in East Africa - ESRC GRAND UNION DTP CDA

Our funded studentships become available at different times of the year. Please keep checking our page regularly to see the latest funded opportunities. We also advertise all our funded studentships as soon as they become available on the @BrunelResearch twitter account.

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