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PhD topics for research students

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

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Mindfulness-based Environmental Sustainability (MiBEST)
The project will develop a Mindfullness-based Environmental Sustainability (MiBEST) programme and evaluate its efficacy in enabling behavioural change towards environmental sustainability, first among...
Elena Antonova
Self Funded
Item-Level Scoring of Memory Tests as an Approach to Detect and Study Abnormal Cognitive Ageing
Although considerable progress has been made over the last few years in diagnosing neurodegenerative conditions, a number of challenges still exist. One of these is defining valid and easy-to-implemen...
Matteo De Marco
Self Funded
Children鈥檚 gender-related development: The role of cultural visibility and acceptance of gender diversity
Research demonstrates that cisgender children identify and behave in a manner that is typical for their birth-assigned sex, whereas transgender/gender-diverse (TGD) children tend to exhibit identities...
Francisco Gomez Jimenez
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
Developing Sustainable Decarbonised Polygeneration System Concept for the Production of Hydrogen, Chemicals and Energy
Polygeneration system is a highly integrated, flexible and robust system design concept that is capable of generating a spectrum of products such as chemicals, fuels, hydrogen, heat and power. This re...
Kok Siew Ng
Self Funded
Sustainable production of high-value compounds using cyanobacteria
The project: Increasing environmental challenges means there is a need for novel, safe, sustainable and cost-effective production technologies. From this perspective production of chemicals using cyan...
Dale McClure
Self Funded
Sustainable production of Vitamin K1
The project: Vitamin K1 is an essential nutrient in both human and animal nutrition. Given the increasing environmental pressures facing us as a society there is a need to develop safe, sustainable an...
Dale McClure
Self Funded
Development of next generation bioreactor models
Industrial biotechnology is increasingly being seen as a way in which we can sustainably produce the products we need. These include plastics, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food ingredients and many oth...
Dale McClure
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
Blinded by the load 鈥� electrophysiological and pupillometric indices of the interplay between non-spatial and spatial attention
We are continuously bombarded by a potentially overwhelming amount of information around us. However, our brains have limited processing resources and can only process a subset of this information at ...
Bianca De Haan
Self Funded