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| Supervisor | Contact | Description | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open to PhD applications in: auditory perception in relation to coordination / mobility (including in people with visual impairments or Parkinson’s disease); auditory augmented feedback in skill acquisition / rehabilitation; skill acquisition in music, particularly in musical improvisation | School of Psychology | ||
| Open to PhD applications from those having at least a 2.1 BSc degree (or equivalent) in Microbiology, Food Microbiology or Microbial Biochemistry. Please refer to my publications for clarification and inspiration. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| Anthropology of Conflict and Peace-building Migration, Displacement, Diasporas Ethnicity, Nationalism, Anti-Nationalism Politics of Memory and Trauma Political Violence and Justice | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the following areas: • Social work with children, young people and families • Child welfare and protection • Relationship-based practice in social work • Social work assessment, decision-making and use of professional judgement • Theorising social work practice(s) • Social work practice with parents with learning difficulties | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| - Machine learning, robotics, planning | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the field of applied ethics. - Medical ethics - Public health ethics - Ethics and new technologies - Ethics and risk | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Prof. Toner undertakes supervision in any area of medieval Irish language and literature, particularly, textual editing, lexicography, and narrative analysis. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Multi-scale and multi-physics modelling of 3D-textile composites http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofMechanicalandAerospaceEngineering/Study/PostgraduateResearch/FileStore/Filetoupload,879376,en.pdf | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of pharmaceutical/medical materials for drug delivery applications. Individuals interested in working with Dr Larraneta are welcome to contact him to discuss their ideas and/or possible collaborations. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I welcome PhD applications in the field of nineteenth-century Irish writing in English, particularly: Gothic literature, Irish Romanticism, James Clarence Mangan, and the development of the short story. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - Adapting soundtracks automatically for listeners with hearing loss - The psychoacoustics of singing in tune (or close enough) - Perceptually motivated dynamic-range compression for adverse listening conditions - Recognising sounds in noisy conditions | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am currently open to new PhD applications in the following areas: - Cinema and the Visual Arts - Political Cinema - Documentary Film Studies | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Phonetics; Phonology; Clinical phonetics and linguistics; Irish English; Literacy | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Shakespeare in performance, theatre history and historiography, 19th-century drama and theatre | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am very happy to work with students on PhD and research projects in areas such as: Monodrama, Symbolist Theatre, Expressionism, Adaptation and Translation, American Drama, the Fin-de-Siecle Avant Garde in Europe, Political Theatre, and Commemoration and Community Theatre, among other areas. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Geospatial techniques in archaeology Heritage management and documentation Landscape archaeology and the archaeology of island cultures | School of Natural and Built Environment | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of biogeochemistry and global food security. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Modern Irish history - Politics and culture in 20th century Ireland - Commemoration and historical memory | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Dr Kerr is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Interventions and evaluations to improve the transition from children’s to adult services -Oncology and palliative care nursing - Educational interventions for teaching oncology and palliative care nursing | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Simulation Based Education; Values Based recruitment eg MMIs; OSCE; Clinical Assessment | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| - Adoption, kinship care, leaving care - Parenting capacity | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Open to PhD applications from those having at least a 2.1 degree (or equivalent) in a biological science or analytical chemistry related field, who are interested in development of techniques for more effective detection and monitoring of emerging chemical threats and endemic diseases affecting food safety and sustainable food production. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Law and society in English Ireland (c.1160-c.1540) - Medieval Irish towns - Women in Medieval Ireland I am also open to interdisciplinary co-supervision with Queen's colleagues with medieval interests working in Archaeology, English and Irish. | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am available as a second or co-supervisor. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am interested in supervising PhD projects that explore topics in composition, including: Score-based composition Computer-based composition (acousmatic works/works with live electronics) Computer-assisted composition (OpenMusic) | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of pharmaceutical solid-state investigations. - Pre-nucleation clusters in the crystallisation of polymorphs - Impact of bio-isosteric replacement on the occurrence of multiple crystal forms - Tailoring supramolecular gels for sub-cutaneous injection | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Global crime fiction Contemporary US fiction US crime fiction Contemporary fiction and violence Suspense, spy, thriller, espionage fiction | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Politics in music and song (all genres/ national/ international/ contemporary / historical) - Folk Song and Tradition - Cabaret and Music Theatre | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of respiratory microbiology and molecular biology , antimicrobial discovery and repurposing. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of multiscale modelling of biomolecular systems (peptides, proteins, allosteric drugs and membrane), pharmaceutical materials (hydrogels and polymers), nanostructures to improve therapeutic targeting and diagnostic applications. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I would be happy to supervise suitably qualified students in the general area of postcolonial writing and theory. I have experience supervising comparative projects (on French and English language writing for example) and on early colonial writings. I would also be happy to supervise students working on contemporary fiction and autobiography. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to applications for postgraduate research from suitably-qualified applicants who meet the University's English language requirements, who have secured a source of funding, and who wish to pursue a research project in a relevant research topic. Exemplar PhD projects are detailed below: 1. Surface-modified silicone elastomers for reduced bacterial adherence and biofilm formation / https://www.dropbox.com/s/hcmz7ry0bz7qgtv/PhD%20Advert%201.pdf?dl=0 2. Exploring the influence of silica-based fillers on drug release from silicone elastomer implants / https://www.dropbox.com/s/p6ues1dplqbbqa5/PhD%20Advert%202.pdf?dl=0 3. Novel sustained-release formulation strategies for vaginal administration of drug-loaded nanoparticles / https://www.dropbox.com/s/1u02ncywh2ebun7/PhD%20Advert%203.pdf?dl=0 | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Voice, Experimental Music, Sound and Media Art | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Dr Grant is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Maternal mental health - Intervention design and evaluation, especially in relation to improving services for families when parents have mental illness and/or substance use problems. All methodological approaches welcome. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| My record is in the training of composers: I therefore welcome applications from those wishing to develop a portfolio of works in acoustic media | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Simulation-based learning for healthcare and allied healthcare professions. Arts interventions for public health. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Prisons Memory Archive www.prisonsmemoryarchive.com Documentary Theory and Practice Creative Practice Irish cinema Representation of Conflict, Trauma and Transitional Justice | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I would be delighted to hear from students interested in pursuing doctoral research in the following areas: Mexican literature and culture Cultural production from/about the Mexico/US border Latin American women's writing The politics and aesthetics of cultural institutions as they relate to Latin America e.g film festivals, book fairs, publishing houses, galleries etc. Latin American multimedia cultural production | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Spanish literature, 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly looking at questions of periodization, modernity, science and futuristic fiction, women's writing. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to PhD applications from those having at least a 2.1 degree (or equivalent) in a strongly mathematically based subject, who are interested in using information, cybernetic or network theory to advance our understanding of life as a phenomenon: please read my publications for clarification and inspiration. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of responsive drug delivery, polymer formulation, bacterial-surface interactions and functional coating technologies. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Twentieth and twenty-first century Irish writing (mainly drama and fiction) - British and Irish working-class writing - Community Theatre - Diaspora and migrant writing - Race/ethnicity in contemporary Irish theatre | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Critical Improvisation Studies, New Musical Instrument Design, Music Performance, Sound Design, Sound Art | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| -Spanish 18th-century Literature and Culture -Spanish Enlightenment -Spanish Book History | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Digital Instrument Design and Performance Practice - Technology Mediated Composition | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of clinical pharmacy, molecular biology, microbiology and bacterial genomics. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Looking to supervise PhD students in the broad area of international management. Examples of particular topics include, SME internationalisation, international strategy, emerging market firms and global working arrangements such as international assignments or international business travel. Interested in hearing from students with interdisciplinary backgrounds such as political science, sociology human rights and economic geography. | Queen's Management School | ||
| Computer aided process planning for multi-tasking machines and multi-machine tasks https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofMechanicalandAerospaceEngineering/Study/PostgraduateResearch/FileStore/Filetoupload,866733,en.pdf Voice orchestrated design tools https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofMechanicalandAerospaceEngineering/Study/PostgraduateResearch/FileStore/Filetoupload,865445,en.pdf | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Early Modern Spanish literature, particularly: Poetry (Peninsular Spain and Spanish America), Women's writing, Religious writing. The reception of the literature and culture of Spain's 'Golden Age'. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I welcome PhD applications in the following areas, informed by an overarching interest in the historical geographies of knowledge: - History of geographical knowledge (since 1800) - History of modern science and religion - History of the earth and life sciences | School of Natural and Built Environment | ||
| Late medieval literature and culture Fifteenth century religious and devotional literature and culture Book history and digital textualities Historiographical writing Critical and cultural theory Translation theory Critical digital studies | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: Experimental film and video practice Screenwriting Landscape and film | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Practical research / creative projects in areas of sound art, performance, digital media, digital art, voice, immersive media and interdisciplinary practice. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - Mathematics education, particularly at post-primary level - Aspects of educational assessment and evaluation, particularly in relation to their theoretical foundations | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| French Studies Medical Humanities French literature (19th century to the present) and illness, disease, pain French Thanatology Literary representations of medical practice, care and experience Literature and religion, especially in the 19th century | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Novel Nanohybrid Coatings for Controlling the Degradation Rate of Bioresorbable Medical Devices https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/novel-nanohybrid-coatings-for-controlling-the-degradation-rate-of-bioresorbable-medical-devices/?p106109 | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the following fields: - French Sociolinguistics and Variation - The Structure of Spoken French - Temporality (tense, connectives, frames) - The Linguistic Structure of Oral Narrative - Language Policy | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I would welcome new PhD proposals in - Dickens studies - 19th-century British writers - 19th-century Irish literature and culture - 20th-century Irish literature - Modern post-colonial fiction and theory - 19th-century women's travel writing - The literature of landscape - Film and fiction - TV adaptations of 18th-century/Victorian fiction - 20th and 21st-century fiction and poetry - Textual criticism - Landscape literature - The literature of place | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to PhD applications from those who are interested in experiments that test general ecological theory on soil organisms. Also open to Plant/Soil projects with a more applied focused. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| Applied Drama, Irish Theatre, Northern Ireland Theatre, Applied Puppetry, Post-Conflict Drama, Arts Evaluation | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am particularly interested in PhD applications in the following areas: –Music in film –African cinemas –Cinema and diaspora -Film and migration -Cross-cultural approaches to film | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| The unknown unknowns: dealing with uncertainty in deep machine learning (see https://tinyurl.com/y27qrlff) | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am willing to take PhD students in my research areas of Indigenous studies, migration, sustainability and business anthropology | Queen's Management School | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Social cleavages - Elections and voting behaviour - Party systems - Political parties - Parliamentary politics - Representation | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Dr Hunter has opportunities available to get involved in two core programmes of research: - The role of social networks and network interventions for behavior change - Developing and investigating the public health impact of population level built and social environment interventions | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr Perra is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Charting, monitoring, and understanding the development of learning and behaviour of term and pre-term infants - Interventions to improve term and pre-term infants’ learning and social learning skills - Developmental outcomes of Cerebral Palsy children | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Dr Boyle is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - All aspects of neonatal and children's health | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Brexit and public policy (environment, agriculture, etc.) - Environmental Policy in the European Union | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Brexit negotiations - Brexit and Northern Ireland/island of Ireland - EU Enlargement - EU External Relations - EU Treaty Reform | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Fog and Edge computing Cloud computing Parallel and distributed systems | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - political economy of development in Africa - energy transitions and the future of fossil fuels - politics and political economy of South Africa - American Political Development (selected aspects, including energy politics and comparative approaches to race and inequality in South Africa and the American South) | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am willing to co-supervise PhD projects in the following areas: - Animation - Popular Cinema - Film Marketing - Screen Industries | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Data Mining, Machine Learning, High Performance Computing, Data Mining and Machine Learning applications in other fields such as Medicine, Neuroscience, Environment, and Transportation. | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Arabic-English translation - Translation in the Arab world - Media and journalistic translation - Citizen media - Narrative approaches - Non-professional translation - Digital culture - Activist translation | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I'm interested in supervising in a wide range of topics in economic and business history as well as contemporary topics. Interested students should email me to discuss supervision possibilities. | Queen's Management School | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the fields of Film popular culture, media cultures, French and European Cinema, International Crime Fiction, French 20th and 21st Century literature. - Popular Cinema - French Thrillers - Literary Celebrity | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Youth Transitions - Inequalities in Educational Attainment - Post-compulsory education and training - Literacy programme Evaluation | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - British Political History after 1918, including the Thatcher Era - Britain and the Cold War - British Political History and Northern Ireland | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of natural bioactive peptide discovery, peptide pharmacology, therapeutic peptide design and development. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the fields of protease biology and inhibitor development (small molecule and biological inhibitors). | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the areas of the financial and performance measurement aspects of the charity and public sectors. | Queen's Management School | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Gender and Social Policy: comparative perspectives - Gender, Work and Family - Qualitative research relating to the issue of gender | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Security, Technology, Border - military and police continuum: criminal justice, police and punishment in war, and military in civilian spaces - Crime and Conflict: war as crime, and crime in war - Reactions to harmful behaviour and different forms of social control | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - African history and the Portuguese-speaking world - Religion, Christian missionaries, and Islam - Civil wars, conflict resolution, negotiations and mediation | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| - Children in care - Children’s rights and social work - Communication and relationships with Children - Experiences and outcomes of State care - Early intervention/family support | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| There are opportunities to investigate molecular mechanisms in myeloid blood cancers including epigenetic alterations, DNA repair deficiency, altered signal pathways to identify therapeutic targets for novel agents or repurposed drugs using drug screens and/or NGS technologies to improve patient outcomes. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Open to MSC/PhD applications in paediatric neurodisability and rehabilitation | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Space and time - Properties - Events - Persons - Divine attributes - Divine foreknowledge and human freedom - Theological anthropology | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Moral philosophy, including applied ethics, bioethics and normative moral theory - Transitional justice - Legal philosophy - Analytical political philosophy - Philosophy for children | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - The British and Irish industrial city 1850-1930 - Urban poverty and welfare 1850-1930 - Public history and memory; heritage - Child and family welfare - Urban development and public health Irish landed estates and country houses | School of History and Anthropology | ||
| Dr McCutcheon is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Educational research - Clinical supervision - Curriculum development - Nursing leadership - Ophthalmic and perioperative practice | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Linguistics: formulaic language, multiword-fixed expressions in Irish - Memory Studies: ideas of collective and cultural memory in linguistic landscapes - Folkloristics: the narrative tradition and verbal arts. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - Ageing - Social Isolation - Social Attitudes - Recording Public attitudes - Good Relations | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Children’s health and Wellbeing - Surveys of children and young people | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - The Northern Ireland problem and peace process - Ethnic conflict and peace-making - International contributions to peace-making (particularly US and EU roles) - The role of diaspora communities in ethnic conflict and peace-making | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| - Uses and Misuses of the Antisocial Personality Disorder/psychopathy label - Parole board decision making and desistance signaling - Prisons and higher education - Desistance, recovery and rethinking personality disorders - Rehabilitative Culture in prisons and beyond - Ex-Prisoner organisations and social movement theory | School of Law | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Disability studies - Transitions to Adult Life - Children and young people in care - Care leavers | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| - Schools and Conflict - Faith schools - Education policy | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Nineteenth-century Irish history - Comparative famine history - Pre-Troubles history of Northern Ireland | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Carolingian history - Early medieval intellectual history - Glossing studies | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| PhD applications are welcome for students in any area of Finance, particularly those interested in Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance or Financial History. | Queen's Management School | ||
| - Sociological and Anthropological approaches to religion - Identity formation in Northern Ireland and beyond - Racism and anti-Semitism - Social class | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Italian cinema - European Screen Industries - Film and space - New Wave cinema - Film distribution | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Nineteenth-century social history - Crime history - Women’s history | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| 1) Nanocatalysts for conversion of CO2 to hydrocarbons 2) Redox Flow Battery - synthesis and characterisation of new high-power-density electrolytes 3) Sodium semi-solid-state batteries - developing electrolytes and devices 4) Separation of rare earth metals with new sustainable extract ants 5) Ionothermal synthesis of polynuclear metal complexes - new approaches for the synthesis of molecular magnets | School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Writing for screen - Writing for theatre | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to students interested in consumer culture, consumer vulnerability, health, wellbeing and experiential consumption. | Queen's Management School | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of history of economic thought particularly that relating to the themes of development, innovation, the role of knowledge, and the relationship between ethics and economics. | Queen's Management School | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of poetry and creative writing. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am interested in supervising PhD students with topics related to my research or teaching interests. | Queen's Management School | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of game theory, operations research and industrial organisation. | Queen's Management School | ||
| I am open to PhD applications, with a British or Irish focus, in the fields of: - Oral history - Working class community (including deindustrialisation) - Gender history - Social history of Belfast since Partition | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Dr Grieve is open to wide-ranging PhD applications from candidates with a basic science or clinical background. His fields of interest include: - cardiovascular biology - pathophysiology - pharmacology Previous research experience is desirable although not essential. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr Rogers is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Bioscience education for healthcare professions - Cancer-related projects particularly those with a treatment/pharmacology or epidemiological focus | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| - Drugs and Alcohol misuse in young people - Drugs misuse in young offenders | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Dr McNeilly is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Children, young people and their families' experiences of living with disability - Complex and palliative care needs - Public Patient Participation Methodological approaches include creative and participatory approaches to researching with children and qualitative methodologies. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Dr McNeill is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Maternal and child health and midwifery specifically in relation to practice, education or improving clinical outcomes. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Dr Coleman is open to postgraduate applications from adult field students with a particular focus on; - Care of the older person - Primary health care topics | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Child development - Social emotional learning - Using experimental methodology, systematic review and meta-analysis to generate and better understand evidence of what works | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Francophone-Chinese Studies - Intermediality - Contemporary literature, including women’s writing - Migration / Mobility Studies - Sartrean Studies | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| PhD and Post-doctoral openings in the field of preclinical oral dose development including targeted drug delivery, amorphous solid dispersions, Hot-Melt Extrusion, 3D printing, continuous processing and PAT. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| - Most areas of children’s and young people’s lives - Sexuality, gender and sexual health - Policy making processes, especially community relations in Northern Ireland | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of - Victorian Literature, Culture and Politics (including the 1890s) - Literature and Science - Literature and Ethics - Periodical Culture - Nineteenth-Century Fantasy, including Science Fiction and Fairy Tale | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Voting behaviour and public opinion - Deliberative mini-publics | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| - Critical theory analysis of social roles, in contexts such as gender, family life and employment - Studies of the emotional quality of social politics , including abortion, breastfeeding, and motherhood - Interactionist analyses of emotions, roles and social change | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Fiona Magowan is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Music and storytelling in conflict transformation/peacebuilding - Arts and reconciliation - Sense and emotion - Dance, movement and empathy - Indigenous ritual, religion and performance - Christianity and missions - Gender and performance | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - political ethics - theories/philosophies of work and economic organization - democracy and workplace democracy - contemporary republicanism - just war theory - the thought of Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre - contemporary political and social theory generally | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Dr Van Wakstijn is open to PhD applications in the following areas: - Simulation of musical instruments, audio circuitry and audio processing systems - Design and development of sensor interfaces for virtual-acoustic instruments - Interactive sounding objects in VR/AR/MR environments - Study of musician-instrument interaction and participatory design strategies - Interactive Virtual-Acoustic Spaces | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| Title of the project: To investigate the role of the histamine four receptor in the pathogenesis of chronic lung infections. We would like to test the hypothesis that accumulation of histamine in lung fluids impairs airways neutrophils in chronic lung diseases by engaging the histamine four receptor (H4R) in neutrophils. Engagement of the H4R may block the ability of neutrophils to kill pathogens. We will investigate whether H4R antagonists can be used to boost the anti-microbial functions of pulmonary neutrophils during chronic lung infections. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the fields of peptide sciences, antibiotic resistance, anti-cancer drug development. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| - Risk (social/health/environmental) - Environmental harm and crime - Environmental justice - Green criminology - Sports Mega-Events - Protest and social movements | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Medieval social and economic history - Medieval urban history - Pre-modern markets and trade | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| - The involvement of family members and children and young people in child protection and welfare processes - Service user experiences of the child protection and criminal justice systems - Child protection social work practice - Assessment and decision-making in work with children and families - Family group conferencing | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Eighteenth-century literature (1660-1820) - Prose fiction: Behn to Austen - Laurence Sterne - Literature of slavery and abolition, 1660-1840 - Contemporary historical fiction | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Dr Noble is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Improving systems of patient care with end-stage kidney disease - The development of supportive and palliative care services - The use of advance care planning - The identification of cachexia as patients deteriorate - Interventions to improve quality of life including reflexology and arts based interventions. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Dr McMahon is open to PhD applications in areas of modelling responses to radiotherapy, including; - Proton Relative Biological Effectiveness - Intrinsic radio sensitivity - The impacts of intercellular communication on radiation responses | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr Santin is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Psycho-oncology - Development of supportive and psychological supports for patients and carers - Understanding the health and social care needs of minority groups | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Any proposal for a research project that deals with aspects of ethnic politics from a comparative perspective is warmly welcome. I am particularly interested in the interplay of social and institutional change in postcommunism in issue areas of non-discrimination, minority protection, migration and civil society. In the past I looked at the dynamic relations between national identity, power relations and ethnic conflict across the postcommunist region and particularly at institutions of the nation-state. | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Dance Studies - Choreographic Practices and Processes - Practice as Research - Affect Studies in performance - The Maternal in performance - Movement practices and performance - Interdisciplinary performance practices - Collaborative performance practices | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I currently have fully-funded PhD studentships (stipend+fees) in theoretical and computational physics and chemistry, primarily focussing on antimatter interactions with atoms, molecules and condensed matter. The projects are funded by the European Research Council and DEL NI. See http://web.am.qub.ac.uk/wp/ctamop/postgrad/ for the project descriptions and to apply. | School of Mathematics and Physics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Refugees and Migration - Citizenship and Non-Citizenship - Critical theories of mobility and migration - Activism and protest - Critical security studies, particularly focused on borders | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture, specifically Northern Irish fiction and drama since the 1998 Agreement - Comparative studies in Post-conflict cultures, specifically in relation to issues of dealing with the past and reconciliation - Comparative studies in trauma and memory studies with a focus on the contemporary Irish cultural context. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to PhD students in the field of behavioural economics with a special interest in social learning. | Queen's Management School | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Digital culture in Brazil and Latin America - Representation of urban Brazil (particularly the favelas of Rio de Janeiro) - Contemporary Brazilian audiovisual production (especially documentary) - Brazilian cultural studies - Latin American cultural studies - Digital ethnography and digital humanities, broadly understood | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Political parties, party organisation and democracy - Territorial politics and devolution in the UK and in a comparative perspective - Citizen engagement and democratic innovations | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Middle East Politics (small and big P) - Political Islam - Security and Conflict | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Northern Irish and Scottish politics - Modern Scottish and Irish history - Religious identity in Scotland and Northern Ireland | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Tourism, Militarism and Everyday Life - Migration, Borders and Security - Surveillance, Visuality and Technology - New Materialism, STS and post-humanism in global politics - Media, technology and global politics - Creative practice accounts of global politics (esp. film and visual art) | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Applied electromagnetics and AI Active/passive microwave/millimeter-wave antennas Metamaterials and transformation electromagnetics | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Investigations of Higher Education and related Andragogies - Investigations of Higher Education approaches in Multidisciplinary settings | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I have an interest in the following broad topic areas: - Older People - Care Homes - Dementia - Delirium - Palliative Care - Communication - Restraint - Oncology - Oral Chemotherapy - Ethnography - Qualitative Research | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| I am open to EdD applications in the fields of: - E-learning or Technology Enhanced Learning - Computer Science including Programming, Coding or Computational thinking - Teacher Education particularly post-primary and/or STEM | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to supervise projects across the field of economic history, broadly defined. I am of the view that economic history needs to be re-inserted into the teaching and research agendas of economics departments and business schools. Consequently, my PhD students must always relate their economic history research to bigger economic and social questions. | Queen's Management School | ||
| I offer PhD projects on addiction (with a particular focus on alcohol) and mental health research utilising psychological approaches to prevention, assessment and intervention. These can utilise quantitative (have expertise in psychometrics for questionnaire development/validation) or mixed methods. | School of Psychology | ||
| Dr Evergren is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Receptor signalling - Membrane trafficking - Inter-organelle interactions Her lab uses cell biological assays, protein biochemistry, and imaging techniques to investigate mechanisms of receptor endocytosis, signalling and membrane trafficking. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr Healy is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Promoting physiological birth and positive birth experiences - Implementation of guidelines for the provision of midwife-led care -Understanding women and health care providers experience of care | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Early Modern Ireland - Seventeenth-Century Britain - History of Medicine | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Educational Technologies - Inclusive Education - Developmental Disorders and Challenging Behaviour - Developmental Disorders and Communication | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| - Social work decision-making | |||
| I am open to PhD applications in the field of Roman history. | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Sino-Western encounter, especially China and Italy, France, Ireland or Russia - Visual sources and historical photography in China - Sir Robert Hart and Chinese Customs - Law and society in modern China | School of History and Anthropology | ||
| PhD and Post-doc opportunities are constantly available. Please, get in touch with Dr Cerroni, if interested in conducting research on the topics mentioned above. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| I am interested in supervising projects relating to aspects political economy from an historical perspective. | Queen's Management School | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - French sociolinguistics - Variation and change (in any language) - Sociohistorical linguistics - Language attitudes - Language and gender - Prescriptivism and standard languages | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - Forces in Mind Trust ‘Negative Transitioning of Ex-Service Personnel’ | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am interested in supervising PhD projects on a range of topics in cultural, historical and political geography, particularly in the following areas: - Geographies of outer space - Literary geographies and geographies of popular culture - Landscape and identity in Britain and Ireland - Historical geographies of science and technology | School of Natural and Built Environment | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Early Modern British and Irish History. - European Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought. - Renaissance Humanism. - Scholasticism and Early Modern Universities. - Church History, whether Catholic or Protestant. | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| - Sociology of Emotions – especially in relation to the dynamics of emotions and power; digital sociology of emotion - Political Sociology of Emotions – especially in relation to party politics, politicians, the state, post-conflict emotions, nationalism, war, Ireland - Social/Sociological Theory – especially in relation to power, emotion, affect, habitus; process ontologies; relational sociology; processual sociology; new materialism | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Please contact me for further information | School of Natural and Built Environment | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of multi-component pharmaceutical materials (including pharmaceutical cocrystals), mechanochemical synthesis, enabling formulation strategies and medical device preparation via hot-melt extrusion. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Postcolonial literatures and film from Portuguese-speaking Africa - Comparative Studies - Gender Studies - Biography - Representations of Heroism | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I believe that research in economic history can be advanced with better data and methods. In particular, I see a lot of opportunities in the digitization of historical documents and maps, and analyzing these data with cutting edge econometrics methods. | Queen's Management School | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Critical Discourse Analysis - Language of Crime - Language in the Media - Language and the Law - Language and Literature | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of… - The language of literature - (Cognitive) Stylistics - (Critical) Discourse Analysis - Translation Studies (of audiovisual/literary texts or from a linguistic perspective) | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the fields of: - chromatin remodelers - epigenetics - cancer metastasis - proteomics - molecular cell biology - biochemistry | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Conceptual and empirical studies of Strategic Narrative in International Relations - Studies in Public Diplomacy - Research on the development of international order, including China’s emerging role. - European and transatlantic security policy - German foreign and security policy, including German European policy. | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I will support research programs in all aspects of CF and bronchiectasis care, this could include clinical trials, pulmonary exacerbation exploration, microbiology and basic science mechanisms. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| I welcome PhD inquiries and proposals in the following subject areas: The Politics of Progress: Revolution and Enlightenment, 1650-1800 Transatlantic studies, 1600-1900 British and American culture, literature and history, 1600-1900 History of the book and textual cultures American studies Historical biography Cultural theory Digital humanities | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to original and ambitious PhD proposals in the interdisciplinary fields of translation, social narrative theory, travelling theory, complexity theory, Russian area studies, literature, music, space and other related areas. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - Digital Literacy and Language and New Media - TESOL, Language Education and Applied Linguistics - Educational Technologies | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Dr Marsh is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities - Intellectual disability nursing - Fathers’ and families' experiences of children with intellectual disabilities All methodological approaches welcome. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the fields of: - SDNFV security - Predictive analytics for network security - Network monitoring and forensics - Edge-based network security - Performance-optimized security implementation | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am enthusiastic about taking on Ph.D. students who share my academic interests. | Queen's Management School | ||
| Applied research in labour economics and regional economics; particularly in the areas of inequality, labour mobility, and policy evaluation. | Queen's Management School | ||
| Obesity, metabolic health and prostate cancer https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=103920 | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| If you are interested in learning more about current research projects in the field epigenetics and working on my group, please email me: E.Kostareli@qub.ac.uk. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Syntax and/or morphology (theoretical, comparative) - Cross-linguistic variation and its formal modelling - Diachronic linguistics and language change - Language acquisition (first or second, particularly the acquisition of grammatical knowledge) | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am always open to PhD applications in the field of nanopharmaceutical, targeted delivery, smart and novel nanomaterials, exosomes, immunotherapy, tumour microenvironment, and nanotoxicology. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Critical war studies - Sociological and postcolonial approaches to armed conflict - Society, identity and security | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Twentieth-Century U.S. History - Gender Studies - African American Studies - U.S. Cultural Studies | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Cognitive studies of translation and interpreting - Translation and interpreting pedagogy - Translation and interpreting industries - Conference and community interpreting - Professionalization of translators and interpreters | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - British film history - Film censorship - Film controversy - Audiences | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of Victorian literature and culture, and colonial and postcolonial studies. I particularly invite applications on: - Imperial travel writing and the literature of exploration - Nineteenth and twentieth-century colonial fiction - The African novel in English | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Middle East politics, especially Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq - Detention, interrogation, and political imprisonment - Critical security and P/CVE - Unarmed/civil resistance | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Interested in supervising PhD projects in the broad area of employment relations, human capital development, workplace conflict management, work and employment in non profit and voluntary sector. | Queen's Management School | ||
| - Workplace wellbeing - Mental health - Use of linked administrative data | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Reparations, non-state armed groups, victims' rights (TJ), space and IHL | School of Law | ||
| I am happy to supervise students across a wide range of topics in political theory and practical philosophy, with a particular focus on intergenerational justice, social egalitarianism, republicanism, climate ethics, risk ethics, moral responsibility, social norms, global justice, moral free-riding, and natural resource governance. | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Mechanism Design; Game Theory; Network Economics; Welfare Economics; Development Economics | Queen's Management School | ||
| - Children’s Rights and Education - Children’s Participation in decision-making - Implementation of the UNCRC | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Global Shakespeare - Early Modern Literature and Culture - Shakespeare and Film | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: Irish politics and history; the politics and history of nationalism; political violence and terrorism. | Queen's University Belfast | ||
| I offer supervision across a wide range of areas relating to translation, interpretation and representation. If you would like more information or think you would to like to discuss a research proposal with me (which I advise you to do before formally submitting an application) I am more than happy to advise you on the development of a proposal. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - The Politics of Brexit - Populism in Europe and North America - Far Right Politics - Right-wing violence in Europe - Competition policy and single market governance | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Rituals, symbols and group identity - Commemoration and memory - The anthropology of Ireland - Conflict transformation - Political violence - Anthropology and policy | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of ion channel modulation, proteases as potential biomarkers and therapeutics targets, infection and inflammation, chronic diseases, to include respiratory diseases and chronic wounds. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Early Modern Women’s Writing - Shakespeare - Adaptation - Memory Studies | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications related to G.F. Handel, Thomas Moore, London theatre history (c.1725-1825), Music in Ireland (c. 1750-1850), 19th-century book trade | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Eighteenth-century Periodicals - Literature and empire - Indian Literature in English - The Lake Writers - Ireland and Empire | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of modern poetry, 20th century war writing, modern Irish literature, and modernist literature. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Dr O'Halloran is open to PhD applications in the fields of; - Palliative care - Chronic illness | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| - Science education - Literacy in Science - Scientific Literacy | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am interested in supervising PhD projects on sex work / sex trafficking; policing, crime prevention and victimisation | School of Law | ||
| - Health and wellbeing in schools - Early childhood development | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications covering the following areas: - Green political economy; - Post-growth economics and politics; - Green political theory; - Civic republicanism, socialism, Marxist, feminism and green issues; - Low carbon energy transitions; - Climate change politics, policy and governance; - Heterodox political economy; - Class, loyalism and republicanism in Northern Ireland | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - 19th and 20thc. African American history - US labour and social history - History of the American Left | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of the biology, characterisation and therapeutic targeting of mammalian and microbial proteases. - USP17 as a therapeutic target in cancer - Targeting bacterial proteases as an antimicrobial strategy | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Mathematical models for cancer invasion with a focus on their analysis | School of Mathematics and Physics | ||
| 3D printed polymer nanocomposites | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Cancer mRNA translation micorRNAs mRNA decay Ribosome quality control Translatome | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| I would be interested in supervising PhD students in most areas of modern literary studies, particularly: -Decadence and Aestheticism; -Oscar Wilde; -Modernism; -literature and place; -the politics of literary form; -literary theory. Please contact me if you would like to discuss prospective projects. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Social policy and ageing - Social gerontology - Gender - Cultural gerontology | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Sound art - Socially engaged arts - Context-focused Composition and performance - Multimodal food experience | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - High-performance computing - Runtime systems and compilation - Performance and scalability aspects of data analytics, in particular graph analytics - Blockchain technology | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| - Mental health - Inequalities - Human rights | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Conflict and Conflict transformation - Nationalism and identity politics - Political extremism - Othering and Populist Politics | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: End of life care decision making Psychological impact of living with life-limiting illness Bereavement (experiences, needs assessment, interventions and policy) Student social work experiences of placement (inc. failing placement) | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Game Theory; Social Division of Labour; Network Economics; Economics of Supply Chains. | Queen's Management School | ||
| - ABA-focussed PhD in any social important area (on-campus or distant learning options) - Applicants have to be Board Certified Behaviour Analysts or at least hold a MScABA | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| PhD research projects currently available for applications: 1. Multifunctional elastomer nanocomposites for stretchable conductors 2. Bioactive polymer nanocomposites for tissue regeneration Candidates who are interested in other types of polymers and nanocomposites are also welcome to make enquiries. | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Distribution network modernization Electrical energy storage Grid integration of renewable generation Power system ancillary services and power system analysis | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| Irish Theatre; Theatre and conflict; Post-conflict theatre and performance in Northern Ireland; Greek Tragedy and Performance; Theatre History/Historiography | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Finite Element Modelling; Mesh generation; Computer-Aided Design; Biohaviour; Design Systems; Simulation Intent | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| - Rights of children and young people with disabilities - Inclusive education - Children’s rights - Disability studies | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Topic areas include adolescent development, quantitative criminology, longitudinal research and alcohol and drug use. | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Youth offending Youth justice and young people in conflict with the law Offending Careers Biographical Research Domestic violence Experiences of marginalised youth Homelessness and housing careers | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Issues in working with children and families in child welfare. Decision making in child welfare. Children's participation in child welfare. Practice teaching in social work education. Supervision in child welfare. Critical thinking in social work. | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - social and cultural history, gender, family and material culture - histories of home - histories of intellectual life and/or letter-writing - heritage collections and adult learning | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Please contact Dr Johnston if you are interested in pursuing an MSc or PhD project in medical education, using qualitative methodologies. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr Prue is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Supportive and palliative care, with a particular interest in exercise - Exercise training in ovarian cancer - Pre-habilitation in lung cancer - Exercise to enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| - mm-wave antennas and systems - Wideband millimetre wave imaging antenna - Automotive radar sensor antenna system | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am willing to supervise PhD projects in the areas of public international law, international criminal law, human rights, transitional justice and peace and security. | School of Law | ||
| * On J. S. Bach's notational habits and performance implications * Reception history of Bach's works in the long 19th century | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| MEMS device fabrication MEMS technology | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| • Aspects of school-based mental health strategies, such as suicide-prevention; • Aspects of (first language) English Education and literacy, such as reading comprehension | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Prediction, diagnosis and management of parasite infections in animals. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| Statistical learning in finance, regulatory impacts in banking, professional football analytics, financial cooperatives. | Queen's Management School | ||
| - Staff equality in higher education - Academic development, or staff educational development - Creative arts education in higher education | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Gothic / horror, science fiction, fantasy in and across media and literature. Representations of history in media and literature. History of media, particularly in the UK. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the field of: - Design of parallel robot/manipulators/mechanisms - Variation propagation modelling and control in manufacturing processes - Robotised intelligent manufacturing - Drilling metallic/composite materials - Scheduling and lean digital manufacturing | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Yes, projects in the area of Battery research / EV's as well as land based flow batteries | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Domestic violence; human rights and violence against women. | School of Law | ||
| Simulation Intent Engineering Design Composite Simulation CAD-CAE Integration Structural Analysis FEA Modelling | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| - Adult safeguarding including the investigative processes - Working with diverse cultures - Bereavement - Culturally competent therapeutic interventions | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Dr Ski has a keen interest in a broad range of psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular health, RCTs and mixed methods. With much experience in systematic reviews and eHealth, Dr Ski is most interested in evidence-based cutting edge projects that impact on practice. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Improving quality of life among people with long term physical health conditions and their carers Measurement of quality of life Learning and teaching of statistics | School of Psychology | ||
| I am always happy to hear from potential PhD students who are interested in undertaking projects in: 1. Gerodontology 2. Links between oral health and nutrition 3. Oral health services research | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Violence, Terrorism and Security | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| - Software engineering including Automated Software Refactoring - Requirements Engineering and Evolution - Software Evolution prediction | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| Dr Lynn is open to PhD applicants interested in exploring the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve outcomes in health and wellbeing for parents, children, families and communities. All methodological approaches welcome. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Dr Turkington is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Laboratory based investigations of novel drugs and biomarkers - Discovery of resistance mechanisms to therapy - Innovative biomarker development using clinical samples | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr Reid is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Public Health aspects of maternal and child health | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Modern French/francophone literary and visual cultures; travel, tourism and mobility; the ethics of representation and display; museology and curation; festivalisation; urban art and culture; Orientalism and exoticism | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Early modern British history, particularly social and cultural history | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Professor Lohan is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Gender and Health - Men, Sexual Health, Reproduction and Parenting - Intervention design and evaluation All methodological approaches welcome. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Professor Reid is open to PhD applications in the fields of cachexia in chronic illness and health services | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Cyber security for Industrial Control Systems (ICS), smart grid and SCADA networks Network forensics for smart grid and ICS Secure cloud platforms for smart grid and ICS Information Centric Networking (ICN): Application to ICS, and cyber security aspects Network intrusion detection | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am open to PhD applications from individuals holding or expecting to hold at least a 2.1 degree (or equivalent) in the fields of immunology, biochemistry or parasitology. A strategy for obtaining funding for a PhD is required. Applicants should be interested in helminthology or parasitology with a view to research pathogens of clinical and/or veterinary significance. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the area of animal behaviour and welfare. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| I am happy to discuss potential PhD projects in the following areas: Transitional Justice; Truth recovery and dealing with the past; Victims; Ex-Combatants; Reparations; Emotions; Dark tourism | School of Law | ||
| I welcome prospective PhD students and colleagues interested in the supply chain management in the context of circular economy, reverse logistics, supply chain risks and vulnerability, contemporary logistics practices and related topics. | Queen's Management School | ||
| I am interested in conducting research into how to apply data science and systems engineering and design methods to improve the safety and quality of health and social care. I am interested in working with prospective PhD students or collaborators on the use of systems approaches, behavioural science, analytics/intelligence and modelling to improve the quality and safety of health and social care. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| I am particularly willing to supervise PhD students with an interest in transitional justice, sexual and gender based violence or green criminology. Students with an interest in Southeast Asia would be particularly welcome. | School of Law | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - early modern studies, particularly Shakespeare and Renaissance performance cultures - age, childhood and gender in early modern literature and culture - early modern literature (especially drama) and civil unrest, including protest, riot. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Sentencing, Victims' Rights, Law and Technology, Public Space. | School of Law | ||
| My team offers an ideal environment for students interested in signal transduction and molecular cell biology, as well as mouse models of disease and drug discovery targeting Grem1 and other proteins involved in human disease. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr Krasnodembskaya is open to PhD applications from motivated and enthusiastic students who is interested in Mesenchymal Stem Cells biology and therapeutic applications in lung diseases. Potential PhD projects on the following topics are available (the list is not exhaustive) : Investigation of the role of MSC exosomal miRNAs in epithelial and endothelial repair in ARDS The role of MSC mitochondrial transfer in lung regeneration The role of apoptosis in MSC therapeutic effects in ARDS | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Sustainable energy and environmental systems - The circular economy for energy and materials - Biogas, biomass and biofuels - Energy, carbon and environmental life cycle assessment | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Opportunities in life-course epidemiology and methods, complex public health interventions and decision sciences. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the fields of biomechanics/biomaterials for surgical planning, medical device design/evaluation, and/or fundamental mechanobiology of cells/tissues. Individuals interested in working with Dr Lennon are welcome to contact him to discuss ideas and/or possible collaborations. | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of medicines use and optimisation in palliative, hospice and end of life care. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Urban culture from the late 19th to mid-20th century in Britain - The nature of citizenship and belonging - The place of the past, and especially of historical re-enactment | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Open to Ph.D. applications from those having at least a 2.1 degree (or equivalent) in a biological or computational subject and with a strong interest in learning computational biology. Postdoctoral research positions are available for candidates with a Ph.D. and experience in the analysis of biological data. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| Professor Maxwell is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Large scale genomics of chronic kidney disease including genome-wide and epigenetic association studies - Clinical epidemiology of chronic kidney disease - Decision making and conservative management of end-stage renal disease - Medical education projects with focus on intravenous fluid therapy | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Projects are available for enthusiastic new researchers to investigate: - High resolution LC-MS/MS metabolite profiling of novel animal model of ageing and dementia - Discovery of novel metabolomic biomarkers indicating risk of delirium or cognitive decline - Food and plant bioactives with therapeutic actions in diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| Imprisonment Criminological Psychology Penal Reform Reducing Reoffending and Desistance Social Media Crimes | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I would be delighted to discuss the possibility of supervising PhD students who have interests in any of the following areas: - General Philosophy of Science Anything to do with evidence (prediction, confirmation, explanation), pragmatic features of theory choice (‘loveliness’ etc.), (ir)rationality of science, holism. Scientific realisms: abundance-theories vs. minimalism, fictionalism and Inference to the Best Explanation. Science as social knowledge. ‘Scientism’ and anti-science attitudes. Natural kinds and social kinds. - Philosophy of Mind and Psychology Mental fictionalism / eliminativism Inference and reasoning - Quine, Naturalism and Naturalised Epistemology Quine’s naturalism, Quine’s holism, Quine’s criterion of ontological commitment Indispensability arguments - Methodology (Anti-)psychologism in philosophy, in epistemology, in logic. Philosophical methods: a priori knowledge, intuitions. | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Open to PhD applications from those having preferably a 1st class honours in microbiology, biochemistry, bioinformatics or a related discipline (or equivalent, including other research experience). I particularly value pre-doctoral research experience very highly, and I would encourage prospective PhD students to gain one or more year’s research experience in a research field commensurate with their interests before starting a PhD. Mature students are especially welcome. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of pharmaceutics, vaccine technology, mucosal and thermal analysis including amorphous and polymorphic systems. - Novel mucosal delivery of biofilm penetrating antibiotics - Vaccine delivery via mucosal routes - Novel spray-dried powders for delivery to the lung | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of biofilm microbiology, antimicrobial discovery, bacterial protease biochemistry, host pathogen interactions, microbial biocatalysis. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Dr McMenamin is interested to hear from students and clinical trainees who wish to pursue PhD/MD/MPhil projects using population-based research methods to identify risk factors for cancer (or precancer) development and progression. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland - Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation in Sub-Saharan Africa - The Emerging Church Movement - Catholicism on the island of Ireland - Evangelicalism - Secularisation and Religious ‘Nones’ - Dealing with the past in Northern Ireland | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Dr Weldon is open to PhD applications from motivated and enthusiastic students in the areas of; - Airway inflammation and host defence - Repair and regeneration in the lung - MiRNAs as mediators of inflammation/disease and their potential therapeutic value - Pathogenesis of lung diseases such as Cystic Fibrosis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr Coleman is interested to hear from students and clinical trainees who wish to pursue PhD/MD/MPhil projects in: - Data analysis - Epidemiology projects related to oesophageal or colorectal cancer and pre-malignant conditions | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the following areas: Biology and genomics of bacteriophages and viruses of archaea; Metatranscriptomics of biofilms; Horizontal gene transfer in biofilms; Antimicrobial discovery; Discovery and engineering of biocatalysts. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Creative Non-Fiction - Fiction - Young Adult Fiction | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Collaboration opportunities in academic and industry around understanding and evolving software. | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Bioresorbable Biomaterials, processing, evaluation and optimising - Tissue Scaffold fabrication methods - Orthopaedic fixation devices - Biodegradable polymers | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of microneedles/microarray patches, minimally-invasive patient monitoring/diagnosis, transdermal drug delivery, including biomolecules, vaccine delivery, photodynamic therapy, nanomedicine delivery, HIV treatment and prevention, delivery of therapeutics for tropical diseases and rare conditions. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| social policy evaluation; disability and the labour market; contingent employment; education; health behaviours | Queen's Management School | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of nano-drug delivery, biopharmaceutics, vaccine technology, repurposing of phosphate-based drugs, nucleic acid therapies and bone repair. - Development of nanomedicines for cancer - Design of non-viral delivery systems | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the following areas: - Biomaterial design, synthesis and characterisation - Host-material inflammatory response (cell biology) - Microbiological evaluation of biomaterials | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in Experiment and Computational Fluid Dynamics (LES/RANS) in the fields of 1- Advanced Thermal Engineering 2- Solar Photovoltaic Systems 3- Thermal Management using Porous Materials 4- Aeroacoustic in Gas Turbines | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| I am interested in supervising students in the broad areas of business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, the role of business in society, stakeholder management | Queen's Management School | ||
| I welcome PhD applications in any aspect of literature in English written and published between 1680 and 1830, particularly: women’s writing, Jonathan Swift, Byron, Irish writing in English, and feminist approaches to literature and culture of this period. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Protestantism in Ireland since 1600 - Comparative history of evangelical Protestantism - Pre-Troubles religious history of Northern Ireland | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Professor Brown Wilson is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Older person’s nursing and dementia care, including support of carers and staff education. Qualitative approaches welcome. Current Funded PhD Opportunity: Embedding Digital Health Knowledge, Capabilities and Attributes into University Nursing Curriculum: a cross cultural study is currently available. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Clinical Health Psychology Functional neurological disorders | School of Psychology | ||
| • Outdoor learning • Connection to nature • Teacher professional development in science • Science education for primary aged children | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Early detection of pancreatic cancer using clinical risk factors and serum biomarkers https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/early-detection-of-pancreatic-cancer-using-clinical-risk-factors-and-serum-biomarkers/?p106197 | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of cancer research, cancer pharmacology, chemoresistance, cell and molecular biology, transcriptomics, biomarker development and drug discovery. Applications should meet the University's English language requirements, secured a source of funding, and who wish to pursue a research project in a relevant research topic. Exemplar PhD projects are detailed below: Mechanism of Drug activity in cancer https://www.dropbox.com/s/1r3f337i5m6mh32/PhD%20Studentship_HDAC6.pdf?dl=0 Molecular Pharmacology of GPCRs https://www.dropbox.com/s/04vjtc24i8svt3k/PhD%20Studentship_Neropeptide_galin.pdf?dl=0 | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am permanently looking for outstanding UK/EU candidates interested in pursuing a PhD thesis in: - wireless communications - signal processing for communications - massive MIMO - millimeter-wave systems The successful candidates should have strong mathematical background and willingness to work in a diverse research team. | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| - Sensory systems - Computational neuroscience | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Contemporary Poetry - Modern Irish and British poetry - Poetics I supervise students undertaking both critical and creative projects in poetry. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - Smart Grid data analytics including Wind/Solar energy/Demand forecasting, - Smart Grid Event Detection and Classification - Energy storage optimization to facilitate renewable energy integration | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I welcome doctoral and post-doctoral applications from suitably-qualified candidates across the broad spectrum of early modern Spanish literature and culture. I have also supervised the critical component of creative writing (poetry) theses. The following fields are, therefore, indicative only: Early Modern Spanish poetry and poetics Theories and practice of the lyric Golden Age 'comedia' Legacy and reception of the Classics in the Spanish Renaissance (and beyond) Cervantine Studies Comparative Literary Studies | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I welcome students who are interested in organisational change, leadership, complexity, policing and the interaction of organisational processes with wider political processes. | School of Law | ||
| I would be interested in supervising students working in the area of cooperative learning, peer tutoring and improving literacy for students aged 3-18 years old. | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| criminal law; sentencing; comparative penal policies | School of Law | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Educational assessment - Gender and achievement - Inequalities in educational achievement - Assessment policy reform and implementation - Single-sex and mixed-sex schooling - Gender and education | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| - Mental Health Research (General) - Social Work - Digital Mental Health - Interventions within Health and Social Care - Dementia Care - School Based Interventions - Help-seeking - Coproduction/participatory research - Virtual reality and immersive technologies | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of cancer research, personalised medicine, biomarkers and novel treatment options. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Interested to co-supervise students in the following areas: Arts Management (as both nonprofit and social enterprise) Stakeholder management in cultural activity Creative Industries Management Cultural Labour and the role of the artist Cultural Leadership Events and Festivals Children's/Youth Arts in policy | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - TESOL and English Language Learning (ESL, EFL, EAL) - Academic Discourse and English for Specific Purposes - Applied Corpus Studies - Speaking Skills - English Language Learning and Migration | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Religion and education - Pedagogy and religious education - Inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue in educational environments | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| I am willing to take PhD proposals in the area of: School collaboration and school networks Educational leadership Education in divided societies Education in custodial settings | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Mike is keen to hear from prospective PhD or MD students wanting to: - investigate improving the quality and usefulness of trials and reviews; - conduct health services research more generally; or - conduct research relevant to humanitarian emergencies. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr McGaughey is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Management of acute deterioration - Critical care education - Family and patient involvement in escalation of care - Development of online educational resources - Feasibility testing of protocols/ interventions to improve sleep, dysphasia and delirium in ICU | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| I am willing to take PhD students in the following areas Simulation of polymer processing (Blow Moulding and Thermoforming) Modelling the behaviour of polymers - creep, biaxial deformation Process Control Using artificial intelligence for modelling polymer behaviour Characterization and Modelling of bioresorbable stents | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| PhD projects | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Race and immigration - Urban history - The New Left | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Argentine Literature and Art - The Fantastic in Literature/Art/Film - Hispanic Surrealism and Avant Garde Movements - Religion and Spirituality in Hispanic Art and Literature - Questions of Self and Subjectivity in Latin American Literature and Art - Political Aesthetics in Hispanic Literature and Art | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - Design, implementation and evaluation of educational programmes and social interventions - Community based participatory research - Critical thinking - Educational attainment | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work | ||
| Professor Cogdon is interested in PhD applications in the fields of: - Strategies to correct and prevent myopia among children in low-resources areas of LMICs - Measuring early outcomes in cataract surgery in under served areas - Improved care for complex diseases such as glaucoma and diabetic eye disease in rural Asia | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of sociology, arts, arts management and cultural policy with particular interest in: - Policy design / delivery - Inclusion and inequality in arts / cultural production and consumption - Social processes of cultural production and participation | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| - Developing Power Converters for power networks and renewable energy systems. - Developing Power Converters for the next Generation of Electric Vehicles. - Topics related to Power Electronics, Renewable Energy, Energy Conversion, and Power Conditioning Systems are welcome to be discussed and proposed for PhD positions. | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| Biocompatible implants for improved pain control post-surgery Mucoadhesive platforms for enhanced drug delivery to the oral cavity Production methods for mucoadhesive microspheres based on fluid dynamics | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Playwriting for stage and radio - Screenwriting | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Interested in joining our team? We are always looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated, talented, and technically skilled people who may be interested to work or study in our laboratory and we are keen to look into the possibilities of hosting fellowships and visitors in any of our Group Research Interests. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the fields of health services research, primary care, prescribing, medicines optimisation, older people. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| - Bioresorbable scaffolds for the repair and regeneration of natural bone - 3D biofabrication of structurally graded scaffolds and tissue regeneration in vitro bioreactor system - Characterisation of nonlinear time-dependent behaviour of bone Open to PhD applications in the field of bone and cartilage tissue engineering, tissue regeneration due to mechanical stimulation and constitutive modelling of soft/hard tissue’s time-dependent behaviour, computational soft/hard tissue mechanics and fundamental mechanobiology of cells/tissues. Individuals interested in working with Dr Manda are welcome to contact him to discuss ideas and/or possible collaborations. | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of peptide-based materials (hydrogels and nanotubes), sustained and targeted drug delivery, biomaterials, antimicrobial drug design. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Potential PhD and Postdoctoral researchers are welcome to show their interest anytime. A range of research topics is available in the following fields: - Statistical Signal Processing - Random Matrix Theory - Machine Learning with applications to: - Wireless Communications - Multipe-antenna systems (Massive MIMO) - Computational Biology | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Antennas and Propagation - Metamaterials and Metasurfaces - Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Imaging - Compressive Sensing and Signal Processing | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| - Data science and scalable computing - The use of accelerators in HPC clusters and Cloud/Edge environments - The use of HPC networks, such as InfiniBand | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I am happy to discuss potential Ph.D. projects investigating any (but not restricted to) of the following: Carbon Capture and Storage (Sequestration); Climate Change; Glacial Geomorphology; Glaciology; Marine Geology and Geophysics; Oceanography; Lake and River Ice Phenology. | School of Natural and Built Environment | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Cognitive Anthropology of Religion and Ritual - Cognitive Anthropology of Atheism | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| Institutions Markets - industrial, upstream market actors Old and new technologies Innovation | Queen's Management School | ||
| Access control; Anonymous authentication; Post-quantum Cryptography; Privacy-preserving systems | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| I welcome original research masters, PhD and Research Fellowship applications from ambitious candidates with a passion for sharing knowledge, who are committed to sustainability and positive research for the betterment of society and our environment. To discuss opportunities and possibilities, please email me with your outline 1 page proposal (i.e. state aim and novelty, the research hypothesis, problem solved and a clear methodology with appropriate relevant references). | School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | ||
| Projects relating to children, adolescents and young adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities, particularly in relation to education and criminal justice. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Happy to take on students across any of my research areas: 1. engaged social practice and 2. Socialization of technology 3. Architectural / Design Pedagogy | School of Natural and Built Environment | ||
| I welcome original and ambitious research proposals exploring the shared ground between translation and philosophy, logic, theology, linguistics, literature, ethnography, history, science, and other areas. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of small and large molecule delivery using novel platforms such as injectable implants, micro-/nanoparticle, microneedles, and medical devices for ocular and transdermal applications. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of primary care, prescribing, older people, and medicines optimisation. Most projects which students undertake are mixed methods in nature i.e. using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Creative Writing Prose | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: Creative Writing Prose (Fiction/Non-Fiction) 20th and 21st century Fiction Literature of the 1930s Literature and Ethics Literary Criticism Narrative Theory Diaries/Memoirs Digital Cultures Cultural Theory Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Short Stories W.H.Auden The Novel Radio | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| Open to PhD applications from those having at least a 2.1 degree (or equivalent) in a chemistry and food science based subject, who are interested in using multivariate statistical methods, fingerprint analysis and novel processing technologies when relevant to advance our understanding of the chemical and physical parameters of foods in relation to their structure, bioactivity and their authenticity via development of cutting edge analytical methods, please read my publications for clarification and inspiration. | School of Biological Sciences | ||
| amorphous solid dispersion, nanoparticle drug delivery systems, surface acoustic waves, supersonic spray drying, thermodynamic modelling, non-classic nucleation, neglected tropical diseases. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| - Developing LabView / python based data acquisition software | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| Dr Carter is open to PhD applications in the fields of: - The needs of carers of individuals living with a chronic illness - The development of peer led interventions using the Experience Based Co Design. | School of Nursing and Midwifery | ||
| Open to high impact industry relevant PhD applications in modern application areas such as: - Autonomous vehicles - The internet of things - Satellites - Healthcare imaging and sensors | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of Nanotherapeutics, radiobiology, radiopharmaceuticals, DNA damage, cancer stem cells, drug resistance, 3-dimentional bio-assays. - Gold nanoparticle/drug combinations - Solid tumour nanoparticle transport models | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - applied behaviour analysis - developmental disorders including autism - applications of the analysis of verbal behaviour for teaching communication skills - effective, values-driven professional training in behaviour analysis - socially valid parent-mediated interventions and parental training - the use of telehealth in the provision of evidence-based interventions - behaviour analytic interventions that address wider societal challenges - high quality systematic reviews for informed decision making and policy changing | School of Education | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Irish Government and Politics - Public Administration - Public Policy - Local Government - Public Sector Reform | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| - Gender and intersectionality - Gender, (institutional) violence and far right populism - Migration, minorities and citizenship - Loss, displacement and the spatial-social nexus - Cosmopolitanism and nationalism in Europe - Far-Right populism, racism and gender | Queen's University Belfast | ||
| Professor Woodside is open to PhD applications in the fields of nutrition, particularly dietary intervention studies, projects involving innovative dietary assessment and behaviour change interventions. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Dr Cardwell is open to PhD applications in any area of epidemiology, and particularly in pharmacoepidemiology. | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| Open to PhD applications in the field of drug delivery, biomaterials, sensor development, SMART materials, and medical device enhancement. Polymer and small-molecule synthesis, materials characterisation, biological and microbiological performance are all areas of expertise in our research. | School of Pharmacy | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - American Poetry, in particular Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and the Middle Generation - American Fiction (19th, 20th, 21st centuries) - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Transcendentalism - Addiction and Literature - Literature and Suicide - Literature and Theology, Literature and Philosophy | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| We are always looking for excellent, highly motivated students to join the team! Please get in touch to discuss opportunities! | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences | ||
| There are PhD opportunities open in creation of innovative embedded systems: - New Edge Computing Solutions for Machine Learning - Physical Layer Security Approaches for Internet-of-Things - Advanced Data Analysis for Manufacturing Applications | School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | ||
| onomastics; dialectology; language and identity in Ireland and Scotland; language and conflict; early modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in the fields of: - Puritanism, especially John Owen - John Nelson Darby - Contemporary American evangelicalism | School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics | ||
| I am open to PhD applications in any field that has music /music performance and improvisation at its focus. I am particularly interested in research that reaches beyond music and draws on other areas of research. Current interest includes designing musical environments in VR and working with disabled musicians. | School of Arts, English and Languages | ||
| [1] Financial Econometrics with Application to Commodity Markets [2] Crisis Prevention Mechanisms in Financial Markets | Queen's Management School | ||
| I am open to PhD proposals in the areas of: - The role of education in divided societies generally - The relationship between education policy and educational practice - Collaboration between schools and the role of social networks - Issues related to educational leadership | School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work |
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