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A Biophilic design approach to UN SDG 3 and Trauma Informed Design.

Supervisor: Dr Niall O'Hare

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681063

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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A digital twin for smart 3D printing/additive manufacturing

Supervisor: Dr Deepika Nikam

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679848

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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A Digital Twin-Driven Approach to Predictive Safety and Control Optimisation in Human-Robot Collaborative Manufacturing

Supervisor: Dr Mark Ng

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681686

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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A Ditigal Human-Asset Twin of Twins architecture for Buildings

Supervisor: Professor Ibrahim Motawa

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681054

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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A One Health approach to vitamin D biofortification in pork
Supervisor: Dr Fahad Ahmed

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680685

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Adaptive Smart Retrofitting for Historical Buildings: Innovative Integration of Sustainable Wall Technologies with Energy AI-based feedback system

Supervisor: Dr Chiara Salaris

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680954

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Additive Manufacturing using Advanced Robotics and Arc Metal Welding
Supervisor: Dr Shaun McFadden

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1677433

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Advanced Mobile Robot Vision for Smart Manufacturing

Supervisor: Dr Dermot Kerr

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1677031

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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An examination of the role of digitalisation in credit unions in Ireland.

Supervisor: Professor Anne-Marie Ward

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680558

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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An exploration of knowledge, attitudes and experience of palliative care among refugees living in the United Kingdom
Supervisor: Dr Esther Ruth Beck

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680614

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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An exploration of psychosocial related quality of life in Cystic Fibrosis (CF), and the impact of mental health outcomes
Supervisor: Dr Rachel McHugh

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681690

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for An exploration of psychosocial related quality of life in Cystic Fibrosis (CF), and the impact of mental health outcomes Add to My Shortlist
An integrated geological characterization of the Irish continental shelf: implications for offshore marine resources and renewable energy
Supervisor: Professor Sara Benetti

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681024

Subject Area: Geography and Environmental Studies

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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An investigation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in a high fish-eating population and its association with reproductive health

Supervisor: Dr Philip Allsopp

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: NIH|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)|Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680576

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for An investigation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in a high fish-eating population and its association with reproductive health Add to My Shortlist

An investigation of the bioactivity of sea kelp protein hydrolysates and their potential for metabolic disease management
Supervisor: Professor Finbarr O'Harte

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681268

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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An investigation of the health impact of selenium across the lifespan - from pregnancy to older adulthood
Supervisor: Dr Maria Mulhern

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680554

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Animation in Ireland

Supervisor: Mr Alec Parkin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1673103

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Architecture, Built Environment and Planning Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Jayanta Mondol

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

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Are plant-based flavonoid metabolites the key to better cognitive health?

Supervisor: Professor Chris Gill

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: US-Ireland|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)|Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680695

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Arm-based Wearable Sensing Techniques for Diagnostic Methods in Long-term Monitoring of ECG and ICG of Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation.
Supervisor: Professor Omar Escalona

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1686977

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for Arm-based Wearable Sensing Techniques for Diagnostic Methods in Long-term Monitoring of ECG and ICG of Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation. Add to My Shortlist
Art and Design Research Programmes
Supervisor: Professor Justin Magee

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

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Assessing Effect of Greenhouse Gases Emission Reduction with Variable Renewable Energy Implementation in Marine Climate Islands

Supervisor: Professor Ming Jun Huang

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time
Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681608

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Atomic-detail structure of intermediates in self-assembly of G-quadruplex architectures by NMR spectroscopy

Supervisor: Dr Mateus Webba Da Silva

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Saturday 31 May 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1689766

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Atomic-detail structure of intermediates in self-assembly of G-quadruplex architectures by NMR spectroscopy Add to My Shortlist

Balancing user needs and technology adoption for healthy ageing

Supervisor: Dr Priyanka Chaurasia

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679836

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Behaviour Modelling in Digital Twins for the Identification of Mental Health Issues
Supervisor: Dr Shuai Zhang

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681404

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for Behaviour Modelling in Digital Twins for the Identification of Mental Health Issues Add to My Shortlist

Bioactive glass encapsulation for the localised delivery of chemotherapeutic agents for treatment of osteosarcoma

Supervisor: Dr Deborah Lowry

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680465

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Bioactive glass encapsulation for the localised delivery of chemotherapeutic agents for treatment of osteosarcoma Add to My Shortlist

Blockchain and AI-Enabled Traceability for Sustainable Supply Chains

Supervisor: Dr Vimal Kumar Dwivedi

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679829

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Bridging the Gender Finance Gap: Exploring Female Entrepreneurs' Participation in Crowdfunding in the UK and Ireland

Supervisor: Professor Laura Bradley-Mccauley

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680373

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

View opportunity for Bridging the Gender Finance Gap: Exploring Female Entrepreneurs' Participation in Crowdfunding in the UK and Ireland Add to My Shortlist

Brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based interventions for depression: An evaluation of AWARE’s ‘Mood Matters’ and ‘Live Life to the Full’ programmes.
Supervisor: Dr Orla McBride

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681813

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Brief Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)-based interventions for depression: An evaluation of AWARE’s ‘Mood Matters’ and ‘Live Life to the Full’ programmes. Add to My Shortlist
Business and Management Research Programmes
Supervisor: Professor Martin McCracken

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

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Carbon fluxes in the uplands and implications for national inventories

Supervisor: Professor Phil Jordan

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Agrisearch

Project ID: 1688365

Subject Area: Geography and Environmental Studies

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Cell-to-cell communication in Neurodegenerative Disorders

Supervisor: Dr Paula McClean

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681177

Subject Area: Medicine

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Cell-to-cell communication in Neurodegenerative Disorders Add to My Shortlist

Celtic Studies Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Maxim Fomin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Modern Languages and Linguistics

View opportunity for Celtic Studies Research Programmes Add to My Shortlist

Challenging Health Outcomes - Integrated Community Environments (CHOICE): social prescribing for people living with severe mental illness
Supervisor: Professor Gerard Leavey

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681791

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Challenging Health Outcomes - Integrated Community Environments (CHOICE): social prescribing for people living with severe mental illness Add to My Shortlist

Characterization of carbon fibre reinforced 3D printed polymer composites fabricated using additive manufacturing technique

Supervisor: Dr Khalid Saeed

Key information
Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681738

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for Characterization of carbon fibre reinforced 3D printed polymer composites fabricated using additive manufacturing technique Add to My Shortlist
Childcare Provision in Northern Ireland: Exploring the Mental Health Impact for Families and Providers
Supervisor: Dr Emily McGlinchey

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681732

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Childcare Provision in Northern Ireland: Exploring the Mental Health Impact for Families and Providers Add to My Shortlist
Co-production of a pharmacy-delivered very brief intervention to address physical activity, sedentary behaviour and other lifestyle behaviours
Supervisor: Dr Jason Wilson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680985

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Co-production of a pharmacy-delivered very brief intervention to address physical activity, sedentary behaviour and other lifestyle behaviours Add to My Shortlist
Coastal sediment dynamics on the North Coast of Northern Ireland at decadal to centennial time scale.
Supervisor: Dr Edoardo Grottoli

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680968

Subject Area: Geography and Environmental Studies

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Coastal sediment dynamics on the North Coast of Northern Ireland at decadal to centennial time scale. Add to My Shortlist
Cognitive analytics of multiple long-term conditions in Northern Ireland and India
Supervisor: Dr Priyank Shukla

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681184

Subject Area: Medicine

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Cognitive analytics of multiple long-term conditions in Northern Ireland and India Add to My Shortlist
Collaborative Robotics for Product Handling
Supervisor: Dr Dermot Kerr

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: DfE CDP Award in collaboration with DuPont

Project ID: 1687968

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for Collaborative Robotics for Product Handling Add to My Shortlist

Collective choice by referendums and elections

Supervisor: Professor George Tridimas

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680016

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

View opportunity for Collective choice by referendums and elections Add to My Shortlist

Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Programmes

Supervisor: Dr Robert Porter

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management

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Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Programmes

Supervisor: Dr Helen Jackson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680861

Subject Area: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

View opportunity for Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Programmes Add to My Shortlist

Comprehensive investigation of the impact of proglucagon gene and GIP gene products on metabolic control
Supervisor: Professor Victor Gault

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680214

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Comprehensive investigation of the impact of proglucagon gene and GIP gene products on metabolic control Add to My Shortlist
Computing Research Programmes
Supervisor: Dr Ian Cleland

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Computing

View opportunity for Computing Research Programmes Add to My Shortlist

Conjugated polymer composites for the prevention of implant- and device-related infections

Supervisor: Dr Jessica Moore

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680318

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Conjugated polymer composites for the prevention of implant- and device-related infections Add to My Shortlist

Continual learning for modelling non-stationary systems

Supervisor: Professor Girijesh Prasad

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680489

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for Continual learning for modelling non-stationary systems Add to My Shortlist

Criminology and Criminal Justice Research Programmes

Supervisor: Dr Brian Payne

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

View opportunity for Criminology and Criminal Justice Research Programmes Add to My Shortlist

Design and Development of an Ultrasonic Non-Destructive System for the Evaluation of Biomaterials and Composites

Supervisor: Dr Morteza Tabatabaeipour

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)
Project ID: 1681565

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Design Culture and the Trail of Innovation

Supervisor: Professor Ian Montgomery

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681304

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Design for the Circular Economy

Supervisor: Professor Ian Montgomery

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681322

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Designing Innovative Thermal Batteries for Energy Storage: Biomimetic Solutions for a Sustainable Future
Supervisor: Dr Babak Kamkari

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681658

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Detecting retinal ganglion cell changes in diabetes using novel tests of visual function
Supervisor: Dr Padraig Mulholland

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680537

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Detecting retinal ganglion cell changes in diabetes using novel tests of visual function Add to My Shortlist
Determination of community pharmacists' patient safety approach using the theory of planned behaviour: a mixed-method study
Supervisor: Dr Kingston Rajiah

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Friday 28 February 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1670783

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Determination of community pharmacists' patient safety approach using the theory of planned behaviour: a mixed-method study Add to My Shortlist

Developing Cannabis-Based Solutions for Paediatric Epilepsy

Supervisor: Dr Fabiana Volpe Zanutto

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680837

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Developing Innovative Digital Solutions to Transform Correction of Skull Anomalies in Infants

Supervisor: Dr Selim Bozkurt

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681528

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Developing Novel Approaches for Explainable AI: Enhancing Transparency and Trust in Black-Box Models
Supervisor: Michaela Black

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1677171

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Development and Formulation of Personalized Medicines for the Treatment of Brain Tumours
Supervisor: Professor Chris McConville

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680944

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Development of an immunoinformatics and artificial intelligence based computational platform for vaccine discovery and design
Supervisor: Dr Priyank Shukla

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681434

Subject Area: Medicine

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Development of Change Transformer—Attentive Deep-Learning Approaches for Abnormal Change Detection

Supervisor: Professor Yaxin Bi

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681612

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Development Of Fully Resolved Finite Element Model For 3D Printed Semi-Crystalline Polymers
Supervisor: Dr Anto Antony Samy

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681633

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Development of hydrogel-coated nanogel systems for chronic skin infections
Supervisor: Dr Aaron Hutton

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680459

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Development of machine learning models from imbalanced datasets in biomedicine

Supervisor: Dr Mateus Webba Da Silva

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Saturday 31 May 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1689909

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Development of novel engineering solutions for explosion free in any fire self-venting (TPRD-less) composite hydrogen storage tanks
Supervisor: Dr Sergii Kashkarov

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681028

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Jordanstown

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Development of Sustainable Photo-protectants for UV-Sensitive Drugs

Supervisor: Dr Peter McPherson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 31 March 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1682241

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine
Faculty: Life and Health Sciences
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Diabetes Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Nigel Irwin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

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Digital Marketing in Small Firms

Supervisor: Dr Aodheen McCartan

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680384

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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Digital Spaces for Political Expression in Emerging Democracies: An Analysis of Social Media Sentiment on Civic Engagement and Identity Politics
Supervisor: Dr Diana Toimbek

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679742

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

View opportunity for Digital Spaces for Political Expression in Emerging Democracies: An Analysis of Social Media Sentiment on Civic Engagement and Identity Politics Add to My Shortlist
Digital Twins for Energy Efficient Next Generation Wireless Networks Assisted by Metamaterials
Supervisor: Dr Gabriel Goncalves Machado

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681642

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Education Research Programmes
Supervisor: Professor Una O'Connor Bones

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Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Education

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Education Research Programmes

Supervisor: Dr Paul McFlynn

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679649

Subject Area: Education

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Effects of testosterone on pancreatic islet and enteroendocrine cells in obesity and diabetes
Supervisor: Dr Dawood Khan

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680239

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Empowering Intelligent Healthcare Solutions: Privacy-Aware Learning in Neuromorphic Deep Networks
Supervisor: Dr Muhammad Shafi

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679995

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Empowering Vision Transformers: A Self-Supervised Approach for Long-Tail Data Challenges

Supervisor: Dr Bilal Ahmed Lodhi

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681706

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Engineering Research Programmes
Supervisor: Professor Dewar Finlay

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Engineering

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English Research Programmes

Supervisor: Dr Frank Ferguson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: English Language and Literature

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English Research Programmes
Supervisor: Dr Frank Ferguson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarships (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679602

Subject Area: English Language and Literature

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Enhancing Driver Performance and Safety, using Simulated Vehicle Data Analytics

Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Wallace

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680037

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Enhancing Health Literacy and Medication Management in Older People Living with Frailty: A Comprehensive Approach to Deprescribing
Supervisor: Dr Mohamed Elnaem

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 31 March 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1686923

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Enhancing IoT Device Integrity with Blockchain Technology

Supervisor: Professor Kevin Curran

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679767

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Enhancing Pain Management: Assessing the Influence of Patient Pharmacogenomic and Psychosocial Factors on Opioid Treatment Outcomes

Supervisor: Dr Charles Benneh

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)
Project ID: 1680417

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Enhancing Presence in Multi-User VR: Embodiment, Gamification, and AI-Supported Sensory Virtual Experiences.
Supervisor: Dr Therese Charles

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1689538

Subject Area: Music, Drama, Film and Screen, and Heritage Museum Studies

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Enhancing Security and Privacy in FANETs Using Federated Learning
Supervisor: Dr Hanif Ullah

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681724

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Ensembling Large Language Models for Human Activity Recognition in Smart Environments
Supervisor: Dr Shengli Wu

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680075

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Entrepreneurship for Green Growth – Entrepreneurial behaviour for a low-carbon, circular economy transition in Northern Ireland
Supervisor: Dr Susann Power

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680469

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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Epigenetic Mechanisms of Blood Pressure Reduction in Obese, Non-Diabetic Patients: Identifying Novel Targets for Antihypertensive Therapy

Supervisor: Professor Diane Lees-Murdock

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680260

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Estimating the burden of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children and adults
Supervisor: Dr Maria Loane

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680405

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Ethics & AI in the UK Higher Education Landscape considering Policy, Practice and Principles

Supervisor: Dr Alison Hampton

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680691

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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Evaluating the Fire Performance of Alternative Cementitious Material (ACM)-Based Concrete for Sustainable and Resilient Construction
Supervisor: Dr Naveed Alam

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681532

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Jordanstown

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Evaluating the role of Positive Psychology in Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing in Northern Irish Primary Schools

Supervisor: Dr Marian McLaughlin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681821

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Examining attitudes towards abstinence from alcohol in the UK: a multi-perspective investigation
Supervisor: Dr Orla McBride

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681834

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Examining the Strategic, Operational, Economic and Personal Impact of Defective Concrete on Irish Businesses Excluded from the Defective Concrete Blocks Scheme (DCBS)

Supervisor: Dr Eileen Doherty

Key information
Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680508

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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Examining workforce planning in older people social work: Evidencing the impact of social worker burnout, intention to leave, and leaving from the perspective of service user experiences and
cost to employers
Supervisor: Professor Paula McFadden

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679954

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

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Exercise and DNA intragene damage

Supervisor: Professor Gareth Davison

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680948

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Exercise and pancreatic cancer

Supervisor: Dr Malcolm Brown

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680934

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Exercise Medicine, Physical Activity and Health Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Gareth Davison

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

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Exploration of the Mental Health Benefits of a Multidisciplinary, Community-Based, Weight loss Intervention in Comorbid Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (OBDM)

Supervisor: Dr Paula McClean

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681481

Subject Area: Medicine

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Exploring familial psychosocial support needs following an adolescent and young adult cancer diagnosis: a mixed methods study
Supervisor: Dr Kelly Norwood

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681830

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Exploring Hardware Security for Approximate Computing

Supervisor: Dr Yasir Ali Shah

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679809

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Exploring the COM-B Model: Facilitators and Barriers to Evidence-Based Practice in Community Pharmacy
Supervisor: Dr Kingston Rajiah

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Friday 28 February 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1670748

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Exploring the COM-B Model: Facilitators and Barriers to Evidence-Based Practice in Community Pharmacy Add to My Shortlist

Exploring the impact of healthcare communication within the lived experience of women who have secondary breast cancer
Supervisor: Dr Carrie Flannagan

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680513

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

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Exploring the impact of Social Media Influence to enhance Entrepreneurial Skills

Supervisor: Professor Sandra Moffett

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680102

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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Exploring the value of public health amenities and assets in creating healthy, sustainable, attractive built environments in addressing public health inequalities, social barriers and urban decline.
Supervisor: Dr Aaron Lawson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681571

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Family centred cancer care: Plan, develop and feasibility test an interactive, self-guided digital intervention to support families to communicate with, and involve dependent children when
impacted by parental cancer
Supervisor: Dr Jeffrey Hanna

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680048

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Fanger Comfort Model: Still fit for purpose?
Supervisor: Professor Philip Griffiths

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681335

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Fire Code Design Development for Precast Cladding Façade System.

Supervisor: Professor Ali Nadjai

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time
Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681095

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Fire Dynamics, Material Flammability and Computer Modelling of Fire Phenomena
Supervisor: Dr Jianping Zhang

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681073

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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From nucleic acid sequence to structure: Developing Deep Learning model for structure prediction of G-quadruplexes

Supervisor: Dr Mateus Webba Da Silva

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Saturday 31 May 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1689899

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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From Printer to Patient: Fighting Infections with Laser-Enhanced Metal Implants

Supervisor: Dr Ryan McFadden

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681545

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Genomic Medicine Research Programmes

Supervisor:

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

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GenZ and GenAI : Assessing the potential benefits and limitations of using Generative AI tools in tertiary education in Built Environment courses.
Supervisor: Dr Louise Brown

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681091

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Geography and Environmental Sciences Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Paul Dunlop

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Geography and Environmental Studies

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Grassroots sports and acts of citizenship: exploring how social movements mobilise sports to foster social and political participation in low-income superdiverse urban locales
Supervisor: Dr Federico Genovesi

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679817

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

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Heat pump performance improvement by PVT and/or energy storage integration.

Supervisor: Dr Nikhilkumar Shah

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681087

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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History Research Programmes
Supervisor: Professor Ian Thatcher

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: History

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History Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Ian Thatcher

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680033

Subject Area: History

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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History, transportation and the marketing and development of Irish destination heritage
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Boyd

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680475

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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How Children Think About the Minds of Others
Supervisor: Dr Bethany Corbett

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681804

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Human Rights and Transitional Justice
Supervisor: Professor Rory O'Connell

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680808

Subject Area: Law

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Hydrogen from food waste

Supervisor: Dr Caterina Brandoni

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680924

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Hyperopia: shedding light on the ‘neglected’ refractive error

Supervisor: Professor Julie-Anne Little

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680938

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Impacts of social and physical environments on food and nutrition, and related health outcomes, in older people
Supervisor: Dr Leane Hoey

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)|Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680572

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Implementing whole of school approaches to physical activity promotion in Special Education Needs schools

Supervisor: Dr Erin Byrd

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680980

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Inclusion in green jobs: Exploring policy and programmes which can Foster Inclusive Green Employment
Supervisor: Professor Kristel Miller

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680545

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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Innovations in Assessing Fire Resistance: Collapse Mechanisms of Steel Structures

Supervisor: Dr Naveed Alam

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681540

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Jordanstown

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Integrated production of nano cellulose fibres, lignin, and cellulase enzyme from lignocellulosic agricultural residual by-products
Supervisor: Dr Poonam Singh - Nee Nigam

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Friday 3 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA)

Project ID: 1665439

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Integrating wearable technology and Artificial Intelligence for enhanced health monitoring and rehabilitation
Supervisor: Dr James Connolly

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679987

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Intelligent Systems Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Liam McDaid

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

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Intrapreneurship in small business settings
Supervisor: Dr Stuart Henderson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680123

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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Investigating AI-Driven Personalisation and Generative Design Techniques for Enhanced UI/UX in Digital Health Interfaces
Supervisor: Dr Kyle Boyd

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680328

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Investigating the jigsaw of binocular perception in glaucoma: Are two eyes really better than one?

Supervisor: Dr Victoria Stapley

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680529

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Investigating the Role of Operations Management in Healthcare Transformation

Supervisor: Dr Alan McKittrick

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680519

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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Investigation of a novel role for riboflavin in blood pressure and preventing hypertension in women: Targeted randomised trials in genetically at-risk individuals

Supervisor: Professor Mary Ward

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)|Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680716

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Irish language, literature and folklore

Supervisor: Dr Nioclas Mac Cathmhaoil

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680334

Subject Area: Modern Languages and Linguistics

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Keep it simple? Eye-tracking the learning of numbers in early childhood.
Supervisor: Dr Abbie Cahoon

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681755

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Knowledge and behavioural attitudes towards wastes generation and recycling in urban and rural settings

Supervisor: Dr Marie Vaganay Miller

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681016

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Language and Society

Supervisor: Dr Catrin Rhys

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680564

Subject Area: Modern Languages and Linguistics

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Language pedagogies and learning resources

Supervisor: Dr Gearoid O Domagain

Key information
Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680495

Subject Area: Modern Languages and Linguistics

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Language Policy and State Crime

Supervisor: Dr Michele Gazzola

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679874

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

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Law and Criminal Justice
Supervisor: Professor Eugene McNamee

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680723

Subject Area: Law

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Law and Innovation Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Eugene McNamee

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD
Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Law

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Law and Social Justice

Supervisor: Professor Grainne McKeever

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680824

Subject Area: Law

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Law and Social Justice Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Grainne McKeever

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Law

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Law Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Rory O'Connell

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Law

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Legal protection against destitution

Supervisor: Professor Grainne McKeever

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680735

Subject Area: Law

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Legal Technology
Supervisor: Mr John Keers

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680711

Subject Area: Law

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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LIAISE - Lifeline Information Analysis for Improved Service Experience

Supervisor: Professor Maurice Mulvenna

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship Awards 2025

Project ID: 1688198

Subject Area: Computing|Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Linguistics

Supervisor: Professor Raffaella Folli

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679785

Subject Area: Modern Languages and Linguistics

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Linguistics Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Maxim Fomin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Modern Languages and Linguistics

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Literature and Medicine

Supervisor: Dr James Ward

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1678482

Subject Area: English Language and Literature

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Long-term Statin Use, Global Lipid Homeostasis & the Gut-Brain Axis
Supervisor: Dr Peter McPherson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK Students Only

Self-funded Doctor of Medicine (MD)

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 31 March 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1682230

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Machine Learning inspired Channel Estimation in Future Wireless Networks
Supervisor: Dr Adnan Ahmad Cheema

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time
Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681339

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Making Every Contact Count: Investigating the Engagement of Pharmacists in Health Promotion Initiatives
Supervisor: Dr Kingston Rajiah

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680292

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Making public health data truly public with the use of AI tools.
Supervisor: Dr Steven Watterson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681189

Subject Area: Medicine

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Maternal obesity and iron requirements in pregnancy and the postpartum.

Supervisor: Dr Mary McCann

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Solvotrin Therapeutics|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)|Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680523

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Measuring the impact of a whole plant based alternative protein sources on gut health and metabolic function
Supervisor: Professor Chris Gill

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680756

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Medicine optimisation in community pharmacy: Helping patients to make the most of medicines
Supervisor: Dr Kingston Rajiah

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Friday 28 February 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1670779

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Medicine Research Programmes
Supervisor: Dr Elaine Murray

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Medicine

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Migraine Matrix: Developing An AI-Driven Comprehensive Resource for Headache Sufferers, Professionals, and Researchers

Supervisor: Dr Shu-Dong Zhang

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681173

Subject Area: Medicine

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Modelling of transfer of heat and toxic chemicals through firefighters’ multilayer clothing
Supervisor: Dr Jianping Zhang

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681067

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Modelling The Prevalence and Co-Occurrence of Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences and the Association with Mental Health for Adults in Northern Ireland.
Supervisor: Professor Mark Shevlin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681468

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Move to the Beat – Rock Drumming as a movement and cognitive intervention for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairments.
Supervisor: Professor Ruth Lowry

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681774

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Multimodal phenotyping of people with obesity and diabetes to predict response to a weight loss intervention
Supervisor: Professor Alexander Miras

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681784

Subject Area: Medicine

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Muscle-strengthening physical activity: determinants, mechanisms, and intervention effects on health using behaviour change theory
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Shannon

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680972

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Music Composition (Composition and Improvisation/Composition and Performance/Composition and Creative Audio)

Supervisor: Dr Adam Melvin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680854

Subject Area: Music, Drama, Film and Screen, and Heritage Museum Studies
Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Music, Drama, Film and Screen, and Heritage / Museum Studies Research Programmes
Supervisor: Dr Brian Bridges

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Music, Drama, Film and Screen, and Heritage Museum Studies

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NeuroAI Pathway to Explainable AI (XAI)

Supervisor: Professor Liam McDaid

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679795

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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NeuroAI: From machine learning to neurocomputational modelling of decision-making and learning
Supervisor: Professor Kongfatt Wong-Lin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680504

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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NeuroAI: Neuro-inspired AI of decision-making and learning
Supervisor: Professor Kongfatt Wong-Lin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680541

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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New Directions in Artificial Intelligence for Physics
Supervisor: Dr Barry Dillon

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679942

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Next generation magnetic elastomers for sustainable biofilm control in dynamic environments
Supervisor: Dr Saikat Jana

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)|Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681648

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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NINE DTP PhD Scholarships

Supervisor: Dr Conor Murray

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Tuesday 21 January 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1685826

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences|Medicine|Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience|Business and Management Studies|Law|Applied Social and Policy Sciences|Education

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Northern Bridge Consortium PhD Scholarship Opportunity

Supervisor: Professor Karen Fleming

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Tuesday 7 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Northern Bridge Consortium

Project ID: 1673681

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory|Law|Applied Social and Policy Sciences|Education|Modern Languages and Linguistics|English Language and Literature|History|Music, Drama, Film and Screen, and Heritage
Museum Studies|Communication, Cultural

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Novel dietary and technology-based approaches in the management of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Supervisor: Dr Caomhan Logue

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)|Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680731

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Novel methods of localised through thickness reinforcement for structural composite joints
Supervisor: Dr Calvin Ralph

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681728

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Nursing and Health Research Programmes
Supervisor: Dr Toni McAloon

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

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Nutrition Innovation Centre for food and HEalth (NICHE) Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Helene McNulty

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

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Nutritional Knowledge, Dietary Practices and Immune Health of Gaelic Players
Supervisor: Dr Pamela Magee

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680592

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Optimising Neuromorphic Hardware Architectures
Supervisor: Jim Harkin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1677209

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Optometry and Vision Science Research Programmes
Supervisor: Professor Roger Anderson

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

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Patients' experiences with injectable weight management medications: An international evaluation of access barriers, effectiveness, adherence challenges, safety concerns, and the role of digital
health.
Supervisor: Dr Mohamed Elnaem

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 31 March 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1686955

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Shortlist

Performing Honour and Gender in Theatre, Dance, Film

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680609

Subject Area: Music, Drama, Film and Screen, and Heritage Museum Studies

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Personalised Medicine Research Programmes
Supervisor: Dr Elaine Murray

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Medicine

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Personalised Thermal Comfort and Cardiovascular Health Model in Smart Homes Using Internet of Things and Deep Learning

Supervisor: Dr Matias Garcia-Constantino

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681430

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Pharmacogenomic-Guided Rational Prescribing for Patients with Chronic Diseases: A Multifaceted Approach in Northern Ireland
Supervisor: Dr Mohamed Elnaem

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680479

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science Research Programmes
Supervisor: Dr Aaron Courtenay

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

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PhD in Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Dr Aftab Ali

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681770

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Physical Literacy in Children with Disabilities

Supervisor: Dr Katy Pedlow

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680255

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Politics and Public Policy Research Programmes

Supervisor: Dr Cillian McGrattan

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

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Portable thermal energy storage for localised cooling in offices

Supervisor: Professor Philip Griffiths

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)
Project ID: 1681287

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Predicting myopia from an early age: what to measure, when, why and how?
Supervisor: Dr Emma McConnell

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680500

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Critical Infrastructure Applications Using Digital Twins
Supervisor: Dr Aftab Ali

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681489

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Projects in the Applied Social and Policy Sciences

Supervisor: Dr Conor Murray

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681853

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Psychology Research Programmes - Children, Young People and Schools

Supervisor:

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

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Psychology Research Programmes - Health and Aging

Supervisor: Dr Niamh Kennedy

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

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Psychology Research Programmes - Mental Health

Supervisor: Dr Orla McBride

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time
Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
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Public policy and the work of the arts, culture and heritage sectors in Northern Ireland
Supervisor: Professor Elizabeth Crooke

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680929

Subject Area: Music, Drama, Film and Screen, and Heritage Museum Studies

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Pursuing Equality through Positive Action

Supervisor: Professor Rory O'Connell

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680818

Subject Area: Law

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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RAL: Robotics for Assistive Living

Supervisor: Dr Philip Vance

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679878

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Real-Time, Personalised Passive Brain-Computer Interface for Enhanced Cognition and Neurorehabilitation

Supervisor: Dr Saugat Bhattacharyya

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1677141

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Regret in adolescents
Supervisor: Dr Sara Lorimer

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681826

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Reliable AI for Healthcare: Enhancing Large Language Model Transparency with Uncertainty Quantification
Supervisor: Dr Tazar Hussain

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681382

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Rethinking deep water sedimentary processes on the Irish margin: a new perspective on North Atlantic circulation

Supervisor: Professor Sara Benetti

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681012

Subject Area: Geography and Environmental Studies

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Returning to sport, performance and physical profiling after Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstructive surgery
Supervisor: Dr Mark Matthews

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680998

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Revealing the potential of Hidden Heritage Architecure: An investigation of how the adaptive reuse of forgotten heritage buildings can catalyse urban regeneration and provide community
benefit.

Supervisor: Dr David Coyles

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681058

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Role of Cellular Senescence in Progression of Atrial Fibrillation

Supervisor: Dr Taranjit Singh Rai

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680976

Subject Area: Medicine

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Safety of high pressure gaseous releases from buried pipelines
Supervisor: Dr Sile Brennan

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681042

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Jordanstown

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Security and Privacy for 6G IoT Networks
Supervisor: Dr Cheng Yin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680082

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Self-Assembly of nucleic acids G-quadruplexes using Molecular Dynamics simulations

Supervisor: Dr Mateus Webba Da Silva

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Saturday 31 May 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1689887

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Self-Supervised Learning of Human Pose Estimation in Smart Manufacturing Systems

Supervisor: Dr Nazmul Siddique

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679864

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Smart Compliance: AI-Driven Solutions in Financial Technology

Supervisor: Dr Bryan Gardiner

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time
Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1677242

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Social Policy Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Ann-Marie Gray

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

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Social Work Research Programmes

Supervisor: Dr Tony McGinn

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

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Sociology Research Programmes
Supervisor: Dr Niall Gilmartin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

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Sport in Society Research Programmes

Supervisor: Dr Paul Darby

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

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Staging Sonic Spaces: Researching Techniques and Technologies for Spatial and Immersive Music
Supervisor: Dr Brian Bridges

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Thursday 9 January 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1689600

Subject Area: Music, Drama, Film and Screen, and Heritage Museum Studies

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Structural biomarkers of prostate cancer detected in remote tissue for diagnostics

Supervisor: Dr Heather Nesbitt

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: EosDx as a non paying funder, providing access to equipment|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)|Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680485

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Sustainable Medicine Use, Disposal and the Environment

Supervisor: Dr Heather Coleman

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Saturday 31 May 2025 4:00PM

Project ID: 1689714

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Targeting glucagon-like peptides for the treatment of diabetes and obesity

Supervisor: Professor Nigel Irwin

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680202

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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tech4health: four year PhD in Digital Health Technologies

Supervisor: Professor Dewar Finlay

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: EPSRC

Project ID: 1680251

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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The ecological implications of alternative deer management strategies

Supervisor: Dr David Tosh

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681020

Subject Area: Geography and Environmental Studies

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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The Feminisation of Sport Migration

Supervisor: Dr Paul Darby

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680894

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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The idiosyncrasies of wool and how developments in agriculture can support its use in yarns and fabrics for textiles and composites.
Supervisor: Mrs Alison Gault

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681840

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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The impact of different health service systems upon patient outcomes after total knee arthroplasty: An exploration of the patient journey after total knee replacement
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Hanratty

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680380

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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The impact of probiotic and prebiotic dietary strategies in modulating immune responses and gut microbiota in infected hosts

Supervisor: Dr Fahad Ahmed

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680602

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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The Mighty Middle: An exploration of the Medium-Sized Firm and the Support Mechanisms they need for growth and enterprise development
Supervisor: Dr Judith Woods

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1680355

Subject Area: Business and Management Studies

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Ulster University Business School

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The Origins And Rise Of Online Fitness Influencers
Supervisor: Professor David Hassan

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680909

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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The Police Use of Forensics in Criminal Investigations

Supervisor: Dr Shane MacGiollabhui

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679983

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences|Applied Social and Policy Sciences

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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The potential role of microplastics in antimicrobial resistance and virulence phenotypes of human-associated microbes
Supervisor: Dr Andrew McDowell

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680588

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine
Faculty: Life and Health Sciences
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The role of microRNAs in Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition

Supervisor: Professor Declan McKenna

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680283

Subject Area: Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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The role of visual art in engaging with and communicating scientific data and theory in the context of the ocean and water related issues

Supervisor: Mr Ralf Sander

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681263

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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The use of mobility related assistive technology across the life course by persons with spinal cord injury who use a manual wheelchair
Supervisor: Dr Jackie Casey

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680245

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Ticks as vectors of Lyme disease and other bacterial pathogens in the North of Ireland
Supervisor: Dr Joerg Arnscheidt

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681033

Subject Area: Geography and Environmental Studies

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Transdiagnostic mental health mechanisms: The role of negative self-referential processing

Supervisor: Dr Sarah Butter

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681363

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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Transitional Justice Institute Research Programmes

Supervisor: Professor Siobhan Wills

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Law

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Tyre / surface interface using AI

Supervisor: Dr David Woodward

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681593

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Ulster Dressmaking: Exploring Domestic Production, Material Culture, Craft, and Agency.
Supervisor: Professor Karen Fleming

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681277

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

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Ultra High Temperature Heat Pumps for Industrial Applications
Supervisor: Professor Neil Hewitt

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681050

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Understanding Eating Disorders in Male Athletes: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Examining Psychological and Sociological Influences

Supervisor: Dr Katie Liston

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680994

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Understanding Eating Disorders in Male Athletes: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Examining Psychological and Sociological Influences Add to My Shortlist

Understanding physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adults with congenital heart disease: co-design and feasibility testing of an intervention
Supervisor: Dr Nicole Blackburn

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680397

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Understanding physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adults with congenital heart disease: co-design and feasibility testing of an intervention Add to My Shortlist

Understanding primary-secondary and childhood-adolescence transitions: the Wellbeing in Northern Ireland Schools (WiNIS) study.

Supervisor: Dr Jenny Davison

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681809

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Understanding primary-secondary and childhood-adolescence transitions: the Wellbeing in Northern Ireland Schools (WiNIS) study. Add to My Shortlist

Understanding Vulture’s Behaviour using Machine Learning​

Supervisor: Dr Jorge Martinez Carracedo

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681417

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Unlocking Emotions: Multimodal Sensing for Context-Aware Affective Computing

Supervisor: Dr Mark Donnelly

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679736

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Unlocking the Brain's Balance: Understanding Astrocyte Influence on Neural Communication Through Computer Modelling
Supervisor: Ms Bronac Flanagan

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679823

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for Unlocking the Brain's Balance: Understanding Astrocyte Influence on Neural Communication Through Computer Modelling Add to My Shortlist

Wear-IT: Wearable Technology to passively measure food intake

Supervisor: Mr Colin Shewell

Key information
Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681604

Subject Area: Computing|Biomedical Sciences

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

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Weight Stigma, Body Image and Health Perceptions among Practising P.E. Teachers in Northern Ireland.
Supervisor: Professor Marie Murphy

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680990

Subject Area: Sport and Exercise Sciences, Leisure and Tourism

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for Weight Stigma, Body Image and Health Perceptions among Practising P.E. Teachers in Northern Ireland. Add to My Shortlist
What do toddlers REALLY know?
Supervisor: Professor Victoria Simms

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681817

Subject Area: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Campus: Coleraine

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

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XAIScreen4SpLDs: An Explainable AI (XAI) Based Automated Pre-Screening Tool for Specific Learning Disabilities in Children

Supervisor: Dr Pratheepan Yogarajah

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1679804

Subject Area: Intelligent Systems

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for XAIScreen4SpLDs: An Explainable AI (XAI) Based Automated Pre-Screening Tool for Specific Learning Disabilities in Children Add to My Shortlist

Youth and Community Studies Research Programmes

Supervisor: Ms Susan Morgan

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Self-funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Subject Area: Applied Social and Policy Sciences

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​The identification of predictors for inappropriate service users repeat referrals for cardiac investigations; and the development of an intervention to reduce misreferrals

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Savage

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680369

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for ​The identification of predictors for inappropriate service users repeat referrals for cardiac investigations; and the development of an intervention to reduce misreferrals Add to My Shortlist
​Art and Sustainability / Design for Change
Supervisor: Dr Catherine O'Hara

Key information

Eligibility: Open for UK and Republic of Ireland Students Only

Funded PhD

Mode: Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)

Project ID: 1681485

Subject Area: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Arts, Humanities &amp|Social Sciences

View opportunity for ​Art and Sustainability / Design for Change Add to My Shortlist
​Bone Repair Reinvented via 3D printed PEEK-Hydroxyapatite Composites​
Supervisor: Dr Faisal Manzoor

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681682

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for ​Bone Repair Reinvented via 3D printed PEEK-Hydroxyapatite Composites​ Add to My Shortlist
​Computational Biomechanics for Next-Generation Orthopaedic Solutions and Device Design​
Supervisor: Dr John O'Connor

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681700

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for ​Computational Biomechanics for Next-Generation Orthopaedic Solutions and Device Design​ Add to My Shortlist
​Evaluation of Intergenerational activities to address loneliness: a case study approach linking children with older people living in residential care​
Supervisor: Dr Wendy Cousins

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680209

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for ​Evaluation of Intergenerational activities to address loneliness: a case study approach linking children with older people living in residential care​ Add to My Shortlist

​Implementation and evaluation of the feasibility of a musculoskeletal (MSK) injury toolkit for schools' rugby and other team sports ​

Supervisor: Professor Daniel Kerr

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD
Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680226

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for ​Implementation and evaluation of the feasibility of a musculoskeletal (MSK) injury toolkit for schools' rugby and other team sports ​ Add to My Shortlist

​Implementing and evaluating person-centred key performance indicators in nursing homes​

Supervisor: Dr Deborah Muldrew

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680401

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

View opportunity for ​Implementing and evaluating person-centred key performance indicators in nursing homes​ Add to My Shortlist
​Measuring the impact of Advanced Practice roles of AHPs in Northern Ireland NHS, including on access to care and the patient journey at this interface between primary and secondary care.
Supervisor: Dr John Cathcart

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680267

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for ​Measuring the impact of Advanced Practice roles of AHPs in Northern Ireland NHS, including on access to care and the patient journey at this interface between primary and secondary care. Add to My Shortlist

​Process monitoring system for Robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (Robotic-WAAM)​
Supervisor: Dr Sagar Nikam

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681695

Subject Area: Engineering

Campus: Derry ~ Londonderry

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for ​Process monitoring system for Robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (Robotic-WAAM)​ Add to My Shortlist

​Real-Time prediction of Epileptic Seizures using Machine Learning​

Supervisor: Dr Liz Stuart

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681720

Subject Area: Computing

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for ​Real-Time prediction of Epileptic Seizures using Machine Learning​ Add to My Shortlist
​Enhancing Complex Clinical Reasoning through AI-Driven Adaptive Learning for Allied Health Professionals​
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Marley

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 3 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1680275

Subject Area: Nursing and Health

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Life and Health Sciences

View opportunity for ​Enhancing Complex Clinical Reasoning through AI-Driven Adaptive Learning for Allied Health Professionals​ Add to My Shortlist

​A Patient-Centric Approach to Healthcare Complaints - Using Artificial Intelligence for Improved Support and Resolution​​
Supervisor: Dr Patrick McAllister

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681621

Subject Area: Computing|Modern Languages and Linguistics

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for ​A Patient-Centric Approach to Healthcare Complaints - Using Artificial Intelligence for Improved Support and Resolution​​ Add to My Shortlist

‘Advanced Nordic Articulation via Architecture’ [naava]

Supervisor: Dr Taina Rikala

Key information

Eligibility: Open for All Students

Funded PhD

Mode: Full-time and Part-time

Closing date: Monday 24 February 2025 4:00PM

This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE)|Vice Chancellor's Research Scholarship (VCRS)

Project ID: 1681046

Subject Area: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Campus: Belfast

Faculty: Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

View opportunity for ‘Advanced Nordic Articulation via Architecture’ [naava] Add to My Shortlist

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