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PhD opportunities: Digital Media

Compare 4 doctoral research opportunities connected with Digital Media, including project summaries, funding and application deadlines.

Digital Media

Exploring the Use of Social Media Platforms for Supporting Individuals with Long-Term Conditions: Impacts on Self-Management and Healthcare Engagement

University of Worcester

About the Project This PhD will investigate how individuals with long-term conditions (LTCs) use social media platforms to access informal care, social support, and advise from people with lived experience of illness. The PhD will explore the implications of these social and informatic interactions for illness beliefs, self-management practices, and engagement with formal healthcare systems.

Location: Worcester, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Digital Media

Socially-assistive robots and voice assistants for older adults

Edinburgh Napier University

About the Project Are you interested in designing robots or voice assistants for older adults? Join the effort to make socially intelligent systems for older adults. Older adults are a growing proportion of the UK's and the world's population. Automated technologies such as robots and voice assistants that operate in socially supportive roles may help older adults with daily activities, improve their self-efficacy and relieve caregiver burden.

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Digital Media

The social impact of mis-information or dis-information

Edinburgh Napier University

About the Project This is an open call for research proposals related to topics of mis-information or dis-information in social influence. Proposals should focus on the ways in which mis- and dis-information impact human information behaviours and practices in a social or societal context. This work will be anchored in the domain of Information Science with a focus on human information behaviour, information seeking and use, or social informatics and online information.

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Digital Media

Two is better than one: The effect of multiple robots in human-robot interaction

Edinburgh Napier University

About the Project A large literature has shown that multiple robots in socially assistive roles perform better than a single robot in the same role (Li et al., accepted). It is still unclear why this is the case. Multiple robots have the potential to deliver content and provide social support in a more diverse way with multiple agents, though the conditions that warrant the increased financial and development cost remain unclear.

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Deadline: Year-round applications
Funding: Self-Funded PhD Students Only