Computer Science
Loughborough University
About the Project This self-funded research project is in the area of Kinesemiotics, the study of motivated movement. Kinesemiotics is an interdisciplinary research area combining Computer Science, Engineering and Linguistics. Following a successful European project exploring formal modelling of ballet we are looking to broaden the applicability of our research into modelling martial arts.
- Location
- Loughborough, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 1 October 2026
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Manchester Metropolitan University
Entanglement distribution is a foundational capability for quantum networks, enabling diverse quantum technologies including—but not limited to—quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD provides information-theoretic security even against quantum-capable adversaries, making it one of the most mature and commercially relevant applications of quantum communication.
- Location
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 15 October 2026
- Funding
- UK Students; £21,805 - please see advert
Computer Science
University of Birmingham
The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB) is inviting applications for a Doctoral Studentship in association with BAE Systems, to start from 4 January 2027.
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 26 October 2026
- Funding
- UK Students; Centre-UB studentships cover tuition fees, a maintenance stipend, support for research training, as well as research activity support grants.
Computer Science
Loughborough University
About the Project Given a finite set A, and an associative binary operation o, a semigroup is a set which contains A and is closed under o. If |A| = n, the free semigroup A+ is a particular example of a semigroup. Often in computer science, A is a set of symbols called letters, o is the concatenation operation, and A+ contains all nonempty strings (also called words) comprising symbols from A.
- Location
- Loughborough, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- 1 January 2027
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Kingston University
About the Project This project proposes the development of an adaptive, gamified therapeutic platform using Extended Reality (XR) to support mental health interventions. The focus is on integrating real-time biofeedback, augmented reality (AR), and game-based therapeutic tasks into a clinically-informed digital experience.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project There are currently many agile coaches and those tasked with mentoring remits within the IT function. Little is known about the involvement and role of agile coaches regards the adoption and deployment of agile methods (Stray et al, 2020) with inconsistent approaches and varying successes (Theobald et al, 2020). This implies that organisations are missing the opportunity to learn from successes and failures in the coaching process.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
University of Birmingham
About the Project Efforts have been made to create guidelines [1] and standards [2] to improve the quality of the fNIRS experimentation and of the fNIRS research in general. Yet despite all the careful efforts during the experiment design and data collection, and despite the sophisticated analysis pipelines available nowadays including those with AI and ML, such experience-based efforts cannot however guarantee optimality.
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
Computer Science
Kingston University
About the Project Spatial distribution of antenna elements is utilised in the construction of phased array antenna, which is a mature technology. However, in these systems the antenna are connected by conducting media. The formation of phased array antenna by distribution of antenna elements that are not connected by conducting media is challenging due to control, synchronisation, and syntonisation requirements.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
University of Southampton
About the Project This proposed PhD project will focus on advancing automated assessment in secondary or tertiary mathematics education through the use of modern e-assessment software like STACK – a computer algebra–based assessment system. Prospective candidates are invited to propose their own precise research project, and may wish to refer to the collaboratively derived research agenda published in Kinnear et al. (2022).
- Location
- Southampton, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project Generative AI is rapidly transforming diverse sectors, yet its implications for well-being remain underexplored. Beyond productivity gains, concerns are emerging around heightened performance expectations, reduced autonomy, and career uncertainty in AI-augmented environments.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project Cyberattacks are increasingly designed to exploit and manipulate users’ behaviour rather than targeting purely technical vulnerabilities. Phishing emails, social engineering phone calls, and fraudulent websites often imitate trusted communication channels or rely on compromised legitimate accounts to encourage users to perform insecure actions.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project The rapid adoption of Machine Learning (ML) across industries has transformed how systems are built, deployed, and maintained. However, the operationalisation of ML—commonly referred to as MLOps—still faces significant challenges related to reproducibility, scalability, monitoring, and collaboration between data science and engineering teams.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Kingston University
About the Project This project concerns the statistics of written documents, whose properties are analogous to those of other type-token systems such as city populations, personal incomes and galactic superclusters. Large-scale studies on the Project Gutenberg corpus reveal wide statistical variations between written documents [1][2]. Though many texts can be modelled with existing statistical theory, others are anomalous and deserve deeper examination.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Kingston University
About the Project Non-contact sensing technology has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential applications in healthcare, sleep monitoring, and emergency scenarios. Unlike traditional wearable sensors, non-contact methods allow for privacy-invasive monitoring without physically attaching sensors to the body. In this project, we explore integrated radar-based and optical imaging approaches for physiological signal detection.
- Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project Organizations benefit from sharing cyber threat intelligence (CTI), yet direct sharing of raw data, rules, or logs can reveal sensitive business information and undermine security. This PhD explores how to enable collaboration with verifiable trust, so parties can rely on each other’s security signals, without exposing internal data or detection logic.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only
Computer Science
Edinburgh Napier University
About the Project As Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) deployments grow, society needs trustworthy, auditable vehicle decisions and coordination, especially at intersections, merging/convoying, and emergency manoeuvres, without exposing sensitive data (routes, identities, internal logic). This project investigates how to enable verifiable decision accountability and inter‑vehicle trust while preserving privacy and vendor IP.
- Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Deadline
- Year-round applications
- Funding
- Self-Funded PhD Students Only