I am open to PhD applications in the following areas: 

• Transitional Justice
• Truth Recovery
• Dealing with the Past
• Victims, Ex-Combatants
• Reparations
• Emotions
• Dark Tourism

Open to PhD applications in;

• Socio-legal analyses of corporate governance
• CSR
• Business and human rights
• Moral language and accountability within the corporate form

I am especially open to applications that employ content analysis approaches to legal or corporate texts, especially using computational method.

Open to PhD applications in;

• Sexual abuse or exploitation
• Sexual and gender-based violence
• Restorative justice
• ‘Cyber’ or on-line forms of abuse
• Sexual offending by children and young people
• Comparative penal policies on risk/risk management
• Institutional forms of abuse
• Historical abuse
• Community responses to sexual offending
• Cultural myths around sexual abuse

'Open to PhD applications in;

• Law and technology, including topics such as media regulation (especially audiovisual and social media),
• Legal issues in the creative industries, the 'sharing economy', and the video games industry
• Open data, and Internet infrastructure and domain names.
• Further interests in constitutional and administrative law.

Open to PhD applications in;

• Constitutional law and theory
• Democracy and participation
• New technology
• Smart cities
• Algorithmic government
• The legal profession and judges

See also LINCS programme at http://www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI/mitchell-institute/Research/LINCS/ 

Open to PhD applications in;

• Amnesty laws
• Human rights practice, particular with respect to transitional justice;
• Dealing with the past in Northern Ireland
• International law and policy on truth, justice and reparations

Open to PhD applications in;

• Human rights law and violence against women
• Domestic violence

Open to PhD applications in:

• Substance Use
• Mental Health

Open to PhD applications in:

• Peace and conflict processes
• Political sociology
• Political discourses, protest and violence

Open to PhD applications in:

• Outdoor learning
• Connection to nature
• Teacher professional development in science
• Science education for primary aged children

I am interested in PhD applications in:

• Impact of childhood adversity
• Child victims in criminal justice system
• Child protection

Open to PhD applications in:

• Trauma informed care
• Systemic Psychotherapy
• Impact of Trauma in Childhood experiences

Open to PhD applications in:

• 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)

Open to PhD applications in:

• Language assessment
• TESOL
• Linguistics
• Early learning techniques

Open to PhD applications in:

• Family formation
• Family wellbeing
• Intimate relationships (marriage; divorce; remarriage; cohabitation; nonresident parenting; dating)
• Fertility (contraception use; sexual behaviour; family size preferences; childlessness)
• Emerging adulthood
• Intergenerational relationships (grandparent; adult-children)
• Race-ethnicity and socioeconomic inequality
• Quantitative analysis including survival analysis and longitudinal methodology

Open to PhD applications in:

• 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

Open to PhD applications in:

• Improving outcomes for pupils

• Issues related to primary education

• Teacher training

• International and private schools

• Literacy and reading

• Randomised controlled trials

Open to PhD applications in:

• Youth and Social Justice
• Qualitative Research in Childhood and Youth
• Perspectives in Childhood and Youth
• Crime and the Media

Open to PhD applications in:

• Epistemic injustice

• Epistemologies of ignorance

• The Capabilities Approach

• Special Educational Needs and Inclusion

• Feminism and Gender

• Irish Medium/Bilingual Education

Open to PhD applications in:

• Mental Health
• Mindfulness
• Interventions to support marginalized groups
• Homelessness, Digital Mental Health

Open to PhD applications in:

• Cooperative learning

• Peer tutoring

• Randomised controlled trials (both development and exploratory trials)

Open to PhD applications in:

• School collaboration and school networks
• Educational leadership
• Education in divided societies
• Education in custodial settings

Open to PhD applications in:

• Intergroup relations in divided societies

• The role of schools in promoting intergroup relations in divided societies

Open to PhD applications in:

• Service user involvement and co-production

• Social work and political conflict

• Trauma perspectives, social work and political conflict

I am open to accepting applications in relation to the following broad areas, but happy to consider most areas of policing as broadly conceived:

• Police practice and reform

• Stop and search

• Security governance

• Policing and technology

Open to PhD applications in:

• Political education (including citizenship education and human rights education)

• Children’s participation rights in school and in community

• Socio-political perspectives on pedagogy

• Curriculum and curriculum development

• Participatory and transformative research

Open to PhD applications in: 

• Imprisonment
• Criminological Psychology
• Penal Reform
• Reducing Reoffending
• Desistance
• Social Media Crimes

Open to PhD applications in:

• Gender based violence/ domestic violence/ intimate partner violence

• International social work

• Impact of neoliberal capitalism on the social work profession

Open to PhD applications in:

• Youth offending; Youth justice; young people in conflict with the law

• Offending Careers

• Biographical Research

• Domestic violence

• Experiences of marginalised youth

• Homelessness and housing careers

Open to PhD applications in:

• Autism and Mental Health Difficulties

• Behaviour Analysis

• Effective Education and Inclusion

• The use of technology for effective teaching

Open to PhD applications in:

• Adverse childhood experiences

• Trauma-informed care

• Social work practice

• Systemic family therapy

• Domestic Violence

• Trauma

Open to PhD applications in:

• Sociological and Anthropological approaches to religion

• Identity formation in Northern Ireland and beyond

• Racism and anti-Semitism

• Social class

Current research project;

• Forces in Mind Trust ‘Negative Transitioning of Ex-Service Personnel’ 2018-2021 (£178K)

Open to PhD applications in:

• Rights of children and young people with disabilities
• Inclusive education
• Children’s rights
• Disability studies

   

Open to PhD applications in the field of

•Social policy and ageing
•Social gerontology
•Gender
•Cultural gerontology

Open to PhD applications in:

• Security, Technology, Borders

• War and Police Continuum: Police in war, and Military in civilian spaces or in Criminal Justice

• Crime and War, and War Crimes

• New forms or expression of social control

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Health and wellbeing in schools
• Early childhood development

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Sociology of Emotions – many areas, but 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Risk (social/health/environmental)
• Environmental harm and crime
• Environmental justice
• Green criminology
• Sports Mega-Events
• Protest and social movements

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Workplace wellbeing
• Mental health
• Use of linked administrative data

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Design, implementation and evaluation of educational programmes and social interventions
• Community based participatory research
• Critical thinking
• Educational attainment

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Adolescent development
• Risk taking behaviours
• Alcohol, drug use and crime
• Adolescent trauma and mental health problems
• Prevention and harm reduction interventions
• Randomised and quasi-experimental trials
• Advanced quantitative methods and longitudinal research

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Most areas of children’s and young people’s lives
• Sexuality, gender and sexual health
• Policy making processes, especially community relations in Northern Ireland

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Critical theory analysis of social roles, in contexts such as gender, family life and young people
• Studies of the emotional quality of social politics, including abortion, breastfeeding, and motherhood
• Interactionist analyses of emotions, roles and social change.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Gender and Social Policy: comparative perspectives
  Gender, Work and Family
  Qualitative research relating to the issue of gender

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Staff equity in higher education
• Academic development, or staff educational development
• Creative arts in higher education

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Digital Literacy and Language and New Media
• TESOL, Language Education and Applied Linguistics
• Educational Technologies

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Youth Transitions
• Inequalities in Educational Attainment
• Post-compulsory education and training
• Literacy programme Evaluation

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Mathematics education, particularly at post-primary level
• Aspects of educational assessment and evaluation, particularly in relation to their theoretical foundations

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Schools and Conflict
• Faith schools
• Education policy

Open to PhD applications in the field 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
• The use of high quality systematic reviews in informed decision making and policy changing

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Educational assessment
• Gender and achievement
• Inequalities in educational achievement
• Assessment policy reform and implementation
• Single-sex and mixed-sex schooling
• Gender and education

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Children’s health and Wellbeing
• Surveys of children and young people

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Children’s Rights and Education
• Children’s Participation in decision-making
• Implementation of the UNCRC

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Science education
• Literacy in Science
• Scientific Literacy

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Conflict and Conflict transformation
• Nationalism and identity politics
• Political extremism
• Adult education

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Child development
• Social emotional learning
• Using experimental methodology, systematic review and meta-analysis to generate and better understand evidence of what works

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Religion and education
• Pedagogy and religious education
• Inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue in educational environments

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Educational Technologies
• Inclusive Education
• Developmental Disorders and Challenging Behaviour
• Developmental Disorders and Communication

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Mental health
• Health inequalities
• Human rights

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Self-harm  - A proposed mixed methods study will appeal to candidates keen to work with a large data set, it utilises data from the Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS) to advance public health knowledge on self-harm among young people. The Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS) is a longitudinal cohort study involving over 4000 young people in Northern Ireland – the study spanned ages 11 to 21 years (2001-2011) and included over 40 schools. Over time comprehensive data on substance use, mental health, self-harm, family, schools, neighbourhoods, offending behaviour was Methodology - Phase 1 (quantitative phase) multilevel logistic regression/multilevel models (qualitative phase), the results of the quantitative analysis will be used design an interview schedule which aims to shed light on the nature of the relationship between the predictors and self-harm behaviour.
• Sexual-health  This project aims to focus on sexual activity indicators and how these are shaped by family context , peers , schools , other risky child behaviours and outcomes in late adolescence and early adulthood.  These aims will be achieved via secondary analysis of the Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS), a longitudinal cohort study of over 4000 young people form Belfast, Ballymena and Downpatrick. BYDS collected seven sweeps of data over a ten year period (2001-2011) spanning ages 11-21 years
• Secondary Trauma - The proposed study will use data from the 2018/19 Belfast Youth Development feasibility study (BYDS) which includes a comprehensive range of measures related to trauma and secondary trauma (n = 360). A subsample of these participants (aged 30 years), including those who previously reported a secondary trauma, will be followed up to allow in depth analysis of trauma transmission. 

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Disability studies
• Transitions to Adult Life
• Children and young people in care
• Care leavers

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Adoption, kinship care, leaving care
• Parenting capacity

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Adult safeguarding including the investigative processes
• Working with diverse cultures
• Bereavement
• Culturally competent therapeutic interventions

Open to PhD applications in:

• Applied Behaviour Analysis
• Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities
• Self-determination and quality of life
• Verbal behaviour and communication
• Psychosexual education of adolescents with ASD
• Evidence-based intervention in the classroom
• Functional Behaviour Assessment
• Technology-based instruction

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Children and young people in care
• Experiences of care (foster care, kinship care, residential child care, adoption)
• Outcomes and state care (including education, health and placement types)
• Children’s rights and social work
• Relationship based practice
• Early intervention/prevention regarding children on the edge of care

Open to PhD applications in:

• Peacebuilding and reconciliation
• Civil society contributions in conflict and peacebuilding
• Social construction and representation of victims, victims’ advocacy, victims policy
• Group identities and intergroup processes in intractable conflict
• Gender and social justice

Open to PhD applications in:

• Indigenous language reclamation
• Bilingual education
• Language materials in use
• Critical discourse analysis
• Polysemiotics
• Language policy & planning

Open to PhD applications in:

• Social work education
• Digital professionalism in social work and professional education
• Groupwork in social work education and practice
• Professional socialization in social work, and professional education
• Critical digital pedagogy

Open to PhD applications in:

• Social movements
• Conflict and peacebuilding
• Nationalism; populism
• LGBTQ activism
• Memory
• Political violence
• Multiculturalism
• Sectarianism

Open to PhD applications in:

• Farm animal welfare (pigs, broiler chickens, beef and dairy cattle)
• Abattoir-based animal welfare assessment
• Cat welfare
• The human-animal bond
• Anthrozoology
• Evolutionary psychology
• Development of animal welfare assessment methods

I welcome applications from students wishing to work on topics related to any of my research interests. I am currently focused on the psychology of relief, future thinking and debt, and cross-cultural differences in essentialist thinking.

Open to PhD applications in:

• The human animal bond
• Animal welfare
• Laterality in animals
• Pets and human health

Open to PhD applications in:

• Psychosocial adjustment in chronic conditions
• Arts in health
• Animals and health
• Vaccination hesitancy
• Eating behavior

Open to PhD applications in:

• The measurement of auditory perception in young children
• Early precursors to the development of language or literacy
• Trajectories of neural development for speech and language processing in infancy and early childhood

Open to PhD applications in: 

• Arts in health, music health and wellbeing
• Ageing
• Psycho-oncology
• Health behavior change
• Digital health technologies

Open to discuss PhD applications in clinical health psychology. Areas of interest include;

• Psychosocial intervention development for post-treatment cancer survivors and carers
• Improving quality of life in advanced illness
• Public health approaches to palliative care
• Psychosocial interventions in spinal deformity

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

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.

Open to PhD applications in the field of cultural diversity, immigration and integration, identity politics, educational success and political participation of immigrants and minorities, using a wide range of methods from comparative, multi-level, longitudinal research designs and analyses to experimental and intervention studies.

Open to PhD applications in;

• The field of the relationship between physical and mental health
• Measurement and modelling of trauma and post-traumatic stress
• The role of shame in mental health.

Open to PhD applications in the field of sensorimotor control, sports movement science, in human-robot motor coordination.

• Perceptual basis of movement
• Design of non-viral delivery systems

Open to PhD applications in the field of human movement and balance control, multitasking of motor and cognitive tasks and intreventions to improve balance control

• In healthy, clinical and atypical populations
• Using neurophysiological techniques including EMG, TMS, tDCS and fNIRS.

Open to PhD applications in:

• Canine olfaction
• Canine cognition
• Medical alert dogs
• Well-being of pet owners
• Collection of biological samples for training dogs

Professor Turner is open to PhD applications on any aspect of intergroup contact or intergroup relations, but particularly on:

• Promoting confidence in contact among school children
• Developing interventions to promote positive intergroup behaviour
• Nostalgia and intergroup relations

Open to PhD applications in the field of social, political, and/or peace psychology with special interest in,

• Design and evaluation of community interventions to promote social cohesion
• Superordinate, cross-cutting, and alternative forms of identification in divided societies
• Development and maintenance of cross-group friendships

• Pioneering Parents project, please visit https://pioneeringparentsqub.wordpress.com/
• Helping Kids! project, please visit https://helpingkidsqubblog.wordpress.com/
• Altruism Born of Suffering project, please visit https://pydqub.wordpress.com/ 

Open to PhD applications that aim to;

• Modelling the psychological predictors of health-related quality of life via reviews of current literature and primary research
• Designing and evaluating interventions to enhance quality of life and modify illness and sick-role behaviours.
• Developing and testing instruments to measure psychological constructs of importance in this area, eg. health-related quality of life

Also open to applications that aim to enhance student learning of statistics.

Open to PhD applications in;

• Visual motion processing
• Perceived duration of visual events
• Identifying cortical loci of motion-induced illusions
• Role of laughter in social interaction

Open to PhD applications in:

• Facial expression of emotion
• Sensorimotor simulation and facial mimicry
• Culture and emotion
• Development of emotional competence

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Smart and novel nanomaterials
• Exosomes
• Immunotherapy
• Tumour microenvironment
• Targeted delivery/Theranostics
• Nanopharmaceutical
• Nanotoxicology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cancer research
• Personalised medicine
• Biomarkers
• Novel treatment options

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Protease biology
• Inhibitor development (small molecule and biological inhibitors)

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

Open to PhD applications in the fields of:

• Nanopharmaceuticals
• Metalic/Gold nanoparticles
• Tumour metabolism
• Tumour microenvironment
• Targeted delivery
• Radiopharmaceuticals
• Radiobiology
• Targeted Immunotherapy

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cancer research
• Chemoresistance and DNA damage
• Cell and molecular biology
• Transcriptomics
• Biomarker development
• Drug discovery

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.

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

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
• Diagnostic applications. 

Open to PhD applications in the field of 

• Isolation structural characterisation and pharmacological evaluation of natural peptides and proteins that have therapeutic potential as lead drug candidates.

   

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Natural bioactive peptide discovery
• Peptide pharmacology
• Therapeutic peptide design and development

Open to PhD applications in the field of preclinical oral dose development including targeted

• Drug delivery
• Amorphous solid dispersions
• Hot-Melt Extrusion
• 3D printing
• Continuous processing and PAT.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Pharmaceutical Materials Science and Formulation
• Drug Delivery and Biomaterials 

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.

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 supra-molecular gels for sub-cutaneous injection

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Novel bioactive biomaterials as implants
• Implantable (mucoadhesive) drug delivery systems for application to the oral cavity, vagina and eye
• Novel engineering strategies for improved medical device and dosage form performance

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

• 3D Printing Manufacturing of drug delivery systems & medical devices.
• 3D Bioprinting applications in pharmaceutics and tissue engineering.
• Manufacturing of nanofibers for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications.
• Engineering of novel drug delivery systems using microfluidics.

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.

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.

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. 

• modified release drug delivery systems
• sustained and controlled release
• vaginal drug delivery
• vaginal ring technology
• polymeric drug delivery devices
• injection molding and extrusion technologies
• human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• HIV microbicides
• antiretrovirals for HIV prevention
• multipurpose prevention technologies (MPTs)
• mucosal vaccination
• silicone elastomers
• polyurethanes
• ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers
• in vitro release testing of drug dosage forms
• protein drug delivery
• long-acting contraceptives
• long-acting injectables
• 3D-printing of drug delivery systems
• bacterial vaginosis (BV)
• estrogen replacement therapy
• cervical ripening
• induction of labour

Open to PhD applications in the field of 

• Small and large molecule delivery using novel platforms such as injectable implants
• Micro-/nanoparticle
• Microneedles
• Medical devices for ocular and transdermal applications.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Investigation phase behaviours of drug-polymer blends within hot-melt extrusion
• The thermodynamic and kinetic understanding of drug-polymer binary systems
• Development of a nanomedicine for visceral leishmanaiasis

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Biomaterial design, synthesis and characterisation
• Host-material inflammatory response (cell biology)
• Microbiological evaluation of biomaterials (bacterial biofilm formation)

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Biofilm microbiology
• Antimicrobial discovery
• Bacterial protease biochemistry
• Host pathogen interactions
• Microbial biocatalysis.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Respiratory microbiology and molecular biology
• Antimicrobial discovery and repurposing.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Responsive drug delivery
• Biomaterials
• Polymer formulation
• Bacterial-surface interactions
• Functional coating technologies

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Peptide-based hydrogel materials as long acting injectables, within drug delivery, biomaterials and as antimicrobials.

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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Molecular and sensor based diagnostics for infection with a focus on chronic respiratory diseases
• Role of the airway microbiome in health and disease
• Bacterial pathogenesis, antimicrobial resistance and assessment of novel antibiotics and delivery methods.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Clinical pharmacy
• Molecular biology
• Microbiology
• Microbial genomics

Open to PhD applications in the fields of

• Biology, ecology and genomics of bacteriophages
• Directed evolution and genetic engineering of phages
• Phage therapy
• Microbial bioinformatics
• Molecular microbiology
• Microbial biocatalysis and biocatalyst engineering
• Microbiome modulation
• Horizontal gene transfer
• Antibiofilm agents

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Health services research
• Primary care
• Prescribing
• Medicines optimisation
• Older people

Open to PhD applications in the field of 

• Primary care
• Prescribing
• Older people
• Medicines optimisation
• Most projects which students undertake are mixed methods in nature i.e. using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including trials. 

Not recruiting new PhD students at present due to senior management role in University.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Medicines use and optimisation in palliative, hospice and end of life care

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Peptide science
• Antibiotic-resistance
• Anti-cancer drug development

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Proprietary Dispensing
• Responding to Symptoms.

Research projects in the Wagner group are highly interdisciplinary: they typically involve

• Small molecule synthesis (e.g., carbohydrates, nucleotides, heterocycles)
• Protein biochemistry, enzymology and bioassays

We collaborate widely with research groups in academia, industry, and research institutes, and projects usually include placement opportunities.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Plasma medicine
• Intracellular delivery of antimicrobials
• Assessment of novel antimicrobials

• Not currently accepting PhD students

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• All aspects of neonatal and children's health

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Palliative care
• Chronic illness
• Elder care
• Dementia Care
• Health Services Research

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Gender, health and education
• Health and social care systems and access
• Qualitative research designs and evaluation

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• The needs of carers of individuals living with a chronic illness

• The development of peer led interventions using Experience Based Co Design

• Learning disabilities
• Palliative and end-of-life care
• Old age and dementia.

Open to PhD opportunities in

• all aspects of children and young people health, orthopedics and nurse education

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering of bone
• Orthopaedic research
• In vitro and in vivo testing of biomaterials for bone repair

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Care of the older person
• Primary health care topics

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Chronic disease self-management
• Preventative cardiology
• Palliative care in chronic illness

Open to PhD/MSc applications in the field of

• Suicide prevention and postvention; supporting people bereaved after suicide
• Improving the evidence base for mental health services
• Digital mental health, co-design and implementation science methodologies

Open to PhD applications in the field 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.

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Management of patients with Chronic Heart Failure
• Supportive and palliative care, with particular interest in heart failure
• Decision-making regarding deactivation of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Sexual health
• HIV care
• Developing interventions

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Paediatric neurodisability
• Rehabilitation.

All methodological approaches welcome.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Interventions and evaluations to improve the transition from children’s to adult services
• Educational interventions for teaching symptom management in undergraduate nursing programmes

All projects which relate to outcomes for children with neurodisabilities will be considered. Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Neurodisability and the criminal justice system
• Educational outcomes
• Concussion/Mild traumatic brain injury

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Gender and Health

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  Men, Sexual Health, Reproduction and Parenting

•  

  Intervention design and evaluation

All methodological approaches welcome.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities
• Intellectual and development disabilities
• Fathers’ and families' experiences of children with intellectual disabilities
• Qualitative research

All methodological approaches welcome.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Educational research
• Clinical supervision
• Curriculum development
• Nursing leadership
• Ophthalmic and perioperative practice

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD opportunities in the areas of

• Mental Health
• Mental Health Nursing
• Qualitative approaches
• Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Thearpy (EMDR)

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Maternal and child health and midwifery specifically in relation to practice, education or improving clinical outcomes

Open to PhD applications in the field 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.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Coping with side-effects of cancer treatment (focus on radiotherapy)
• Psycho-social aspects of living with cancer

Open to PhD/MSc applications in the field of

• Palliative care
• Mindfulness meditation
• The use of digital technology with clinical populations
• Digital educational interventions to deliver medical and nursing education
• Non-malignant life limiting diseases

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• The care of older people
• Dementia care
• Palliative care
• Restrictive practice/restraint

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Quality of life research in people with end-stage kidney disease, and their carers
• Mindfulness for healthcare staff and/or patients and carers

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Palliative care
• Chronic illness

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cachexia in chronic illness
• Health services Research

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Bioscience education for healthcare professions
• Cancer-related projects particularly those with a treatment/pharmacology or epidemiological focus

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Psycho-oncology
• Development of supportive and psychological supports for patients and carers
• Understanding the health and social care needs of minority groups

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cardiovascular health
• Behavioural change
• Psychosocial intervention
• Psychometric evaluation.

All methodological approaches welcome

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cardiovascular disease prevention
• Rehabilitation
• Psychosocial intervention
• Health outcome measurement

All methodological approaches welcome

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Child and adolescent development across the life course
• Maternal mental health
• Maternal and child health

Open to PhD applications in the field 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.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Chronic musculoskeletal conditions
• Developing qualitative methodology

• Healthy Places: Understanding the impact of design of cities, public spaces, streets on health and well-being.
• Active Living: Studying characteristics of walkable environments and influences on health behaviours (physical activity, recreation), travel decisions, commuting mode choices.
• Sustainable Lifestyles: Promoting the proactive designing of environments that nudge people to make healthier selections while retaining freedom of choice.
• Urban Transformations: Interventions to provide equitable access to urban infrastructure, amenities, services (e.g., affordable housing, clean water, food, improved sanitation).

Statistical developments to combine multiple fossil-based reconstructions

Spatio-temporal patterns of rapid environmental change –e.g., Younger Dryas, major Holocene events

Open to PhD applications that cover the several areas of spatial planning:

• These include neoliberalism
• City resilience
• Place branding
• Cultural planning
• Drugs economics

Open to PhD applications in the fields of:

• Ethnic diversity
• Ethnic residential segregation
• Eethnic inequalities, particularly in the labour market
• Spatial inequalities
• Internal migration
• Neighbourhood identity and belonging
• Spatial data analysis

Open to PhD applications in;

• The field of human health risk assessment (including using oral bioaccessibility testing)
• Differentiating between contaminant sources

Open to PhD opportunities in;

• Circular Economy
• Sustainable Remediation of Pollution
• Restoration of Peatlands
• Source Apportionment of Pollutants

Open to PhD applications in the field of;

• Coastal and marine governance
• Power and planning
• Environmental governance
• UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Human dimensions of climate change

Open to PhD applications in the fields of political, cultural and historical geography in the following areas:

• War and social memory
• Monuments, memorials and public space
• Nationalism and place
• Geographies of Natural History/Botany
• Gender and Geographical/Scientific Knowledge
• Literature and Place

Open to PhD applications from students in the areas of architecture, planning and urban design who would like to research and design the future city.

• Energy Futures
• Food energy water nexus
• New economies and the city

Open to PhD applications across a multidisciplinary perspectives relating colonial and postcolonial studies.

• Cultural heritage in the context of climate change, political conflict, economic development rapid urbanization and natural hazards.
• Spatial ordering and the role of civic engagement in cities
• Changing role of labour market in emerging economies

Open to PhD applications in the fields of population change, spatial data analysis, and historical GIS.

• Small area population change
• Segregation and spatial inequalities

Open to PhD applications in the field of;

• Architecture and urban planning during socialism and after
• Urban transformation of post-socialist cities
• Historical and contemporary intersections of the port and the city, urban transformations of the port-city interface

• Mixed use streets as public spaces
• Mixed use streets and class segregation
• Streets and mobility
• Street representation in architecture and urban design
• Streets and urban activism

Open to PhD applications in the fields of, or topics related to:

• Vehicle-Bridge Interaction
• Structural Health Monitoring applications, including drive-by bridge monitoring
• Structural dynamics and damage detection
• Steel connections
• Road profile identification and classification

Current Projects: 

• USI-107: Fly-By Bridge Monitoring (FlyMon) Project: Research
• USI-096: Advanced Manufacturing and Assembly of Steel Structures (AMASS) Project: Research
• KTP with IG Masonry Support Systems Ltd - Project: Knowledge Transfer Partnership Project (Innovate UK)

Open to PhD applications in the field of;

• Social economics, urban regeneration, contested cities and heritage and memory.
• Project interests also include social acceptance of energy, community asset ownership and marine spatial planning.

Open to PhD applications investigating high latitude/altitude climate changes over long (millions of years) and short (decades) timescales. This may be in the form of geomorphology, GIS, remote sensing, climate variability, or from within the broad scope of physical geography.

• Geophysics and remote sensing to inform spatial sampling
• Optimal methods for investigation of freshwater environments
• Cretaceous and Triassic palaeoclimates

Sustainable Construction Materials

Cementless “Geopolymer” Concrete for Sustainable Construction, Impact Resistance of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete, Crack-inducing thermal stresses in safety-critical concrete structures, Structural Behaviour of Concrete Block Pavements, Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete for Bridge Structures

• Geographies of outer space
• Literary geographies and geographies of popular culture
• Landscape and identity in Britain and Ireland
• Historical geographies of science and technology

Funded PhD Project

Placing Astronomy: Landscape, Space and Science at Armagh Observatory, 1790-1916

The project aims to investigate the historical geographies of astronomy at Armagh Observatory, which is the oldest continuously-active astronomical research institution in the British Isles. The importance of place and landscape to the science conducted at the Observatory is evidenced by its position in the wider regional landscape, the situation of several historic astronomical instruments, and its ecclesiastical and civic connections to the City of Armagh. The student, based partly at the Observatory and partly at QUB Geography Department, will be in a unique position to re-appraise the Observatory’s scientific heritage at an important time in its contemporary development. Further details at the link below:

http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/media/sites/teaching/northernbridge/Placing%20Astronomy.pdf

• See research focus

I am keen to supervise postgraduate research that falls under the following headings:

• history of geography and geographical ideas
• historical geographies of knowledge
• history of science and religion

• New research includes applications of GIS in the history of cartography, landscape archaeology and history, as well as research in historical geography on surveying and cartography as spatial practices that shaped past landscapes globally. 

The project I am running in Vietnam (see https://sundasia.com/) has supported UG and graduate research, and there remains potential for further projects. While SUNDASIA is near to concluding, further research is planned exploring long-term human impact on tropical karst forest.

• As advertised from time to time

• Large scale geophysical and remote sensing survey
• Later prehistoric and medieval landscapes
• Archaeologies of rulership in Northern Europe
• Cult Practices and Cult Landscapes
• Imaging and Imagining cult spaces
• Funerary Archaeology and Ritual
• Assembly Places and Practices
• Material Culture and Economy in Medieval Society

• Open to PhD applications in the following areas:

  • Offshore and Coastal Renewable Energy devices,
  • Offshore Wind Turbines, Floating Solar, Wave and Tidal
  • Dynamics of Marine Structures, Floating Wind Platforms
  • Numerical Methods for Ocean Engineering, Hydrodynamics

Open to PhD opportunities in the fields of;

• Power and politics in planning practice
• Social dimensions of flood risk management
• Value capture in urban planning
• The neoliberalisation of the state and planning

• Planning practice
• Planning Law
• Resilience in urban planning

Open to PhD applications from candidates in the field of Civil Engineering (hydraulics and maritime) and Geo-Environmental Science to join teams working in the saline intrusion in coastal aquifers and fluid / structure interaction of scour at bridges under localized flooding.

Open to PhD students in the fields of tephrochronology, palynology, Irish prehistory or wetland archaeology.

• Creation of CLT and design modular construction
• Development of a marine grade cementitious composite
• Rapid asset management data capture and processing

• KTP Associate with Tracey Concrete
• PhD in 3D printing of concrete, bio-based building materials, self-compacting concrete, rheology

Aileen welcomes PhD enquiries on rural population or planning themes.  These might include:

• Migration trends
• Place attachment
• Rural housing and services
• Rural economy and society
• Environmental governance
  

Interested in taking interested PhD students with an interest in one of the below, particularly in application to a developing (non-OECD) country.

• Environmental and social assessment and risk management
• Water demand management and policy in water-scarce and non water-scarce environments
• Waste management - policy, incentives and drivers for behaviour change
• Consultation and stakeholder engagement during planning, construction and project operation. Social license to operate
• Sustainable finance, impact investing - how the increasing appetite for 'acceptable' investments can affect project planning and implementation
  Multi-cultural teams, improving teamwork on large international projects

• Cinema and the City 
• Architecture and Film 
• Architecture and (Voluntary and/or Forced) Migration 
• Minorities in the City 
• Refugees and Home 
• Architectural Space/Public Space/Film space
• Digital Mapping in the Humanities 
• Architectural Media and Representation 
• Architectural Design Education

Open to PhD applications in the fields of:

1. Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Age archaeology of Europe and the Mediterranean
2. World Prehistory
3. Dating and Chronology
4. Artefact Studies
5. Archaeometry of inorganic materials

Will is happy to discuss opportunities with any applicant with shared interests, particularly in relation to how the past can be utilized to address contemporary challenges, and the role of technology in doing so. He would be particularly keen to hear from students looking to explore collaborative programs which include professional practice.  

• Sustainable Construction Materials and Structures

Open to PhD applications in related fields of interest in

• Later prehistory or applied studies of artefacts and monuments

Masters supervision on related themes. Graduates enabled to participate in active fieldwork and engage with new data and research team.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Chromatin remodelers
• Epigenetics
• Cancer metastasis
• Proteomics
• Molecular cell biology
• Biochemistry

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Radiobiology of targeted radionuclides (Radium-223)
• Clinical trials
• Stereotactic Radiotherapy
• Radiation Biology
• Prostate Cancer

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Social science
• Clinical background

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Genetic-epigenetic-transcriptomic association studies for kidney disease.
• Multi-omic risk factors for rare disease, and common diseases with a focus in aging populations.
• Information and communication provision for kidney disease and rare disease(s).

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cancer Epidemiology
• Pancreatic cancer
• Early detection of cancer

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Multi-disciplinary Centre and acquire training on cutting edge technologies in pluripotent stem cells
• Molecular biology
• Cell signaling
• Coding and non-coding RNAs in the context of diabetes
• Cardiovascular complications

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Patient reported outcomes data on 35,000 prostate cancer patients from the UK
• Excellent data of all cancer patients diagnosed since 1993
• Databases on premalignant disease and PSA database
• Stroke registry to be established
• Possible cardiovascular in future

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Proteomics – to identify protein-protein interactions in rhinovirus-infected cells
• Molecular cell biology/biochemistry – to understand the role of cellular proteins in rhinovirus replication

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Host-pathogen interactions
• vaccinology
• pharmacology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Dementia research including the role of nutrition and inflammation in neurodegeneration
• The utility of EEG and MEG in assisting diagnostics
• Large data analytics projects

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• epithelial biology
• pathophysiology
• biomarkers of diseases
• bioinformatics

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Health-related sciences

• Quantitative subject (e.g. statistics) 

• Pharmacoepidemiology

• Cancer epidemiology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Heart failure, Cardiomyopathy, Cardiac remodelling
• Diabetes, Hypertension, Ischaemia
• Biomarkers, Epigenetics, Fibrosis
• Global Health, mHealth

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Epidemiology
• Pharmacoepidemiology.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Nutrition and ageing research
• Particularly projects involving data analysis in cohort studies
• Clinical/community-based dietary interventions.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Metastatic progression
• Pre-metastatic organ microenvironment
• Pathophysiology of cancer
• Microvascular function and tissue regeneration and remodeling resulting from both disease and treatments.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cystic fibrosis
• Bronchiectasis
• Pneumonia

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Integrative analytics & software design
• Insights into patient heterogeneity AI
• Machine Learning

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.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• MicroRNAs – their role in gene regulation and use as biomarkers

• Transcriptomics – RNA-Seq, including single cell analysis

• Microbial DNA sequencing

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Behavioural science
• Data science
• Systems approaches to improving healthcare quality

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cardiovascular medicine
• Ophthalmology or regenerative medicine.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Signal transduction and molecular cell biology
• Mouse models of disease and drug discovery targeting Grem1
• Proteins involved in human disease.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Administrative data related to ageing, pensions, poverty at older ages

• Research on looked after children or children known to social services.

Open to PhD applications in the field of the

•  Role of the STING pathway across cancers

Open to PhD applications in the field that

• Integrate molecular and epidemiological data

Open to PhD applications in the field 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.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Epithelial biology
• Immunology
• Microbiology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Simulation
• Secondary analysis of official cancer statistics
• Patient-level data accessed within the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, linkage to the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study, or Public Health England. 

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Infection
• Pain and inflammation in the oral cavity and upper respiratory tract

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Diabetic complications
• Biomarker discovery
• Stratified Medicine

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Improving oral health for care home residents
• Exploring links between oral health and nutritional well being
• Improving care for head and neck oncology patients

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Biomedical informatics (translational bioinformatics and exposome informatics)
• Integration of clinical and molecular data
• Analysis and representation of exposome data

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Data analysis
• Epidemiology projects related to oesophageal or colorectal cancer and pre-malignant conditions

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Epidemiology
• Particularly in the areas of rare disease
• Research methodology
• Health service research
• Network analysis

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Systems Medicine
• Network Biology
• Precision Medicine

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Harnessing inflammation for repair and regeneration in dental tissues

• neuronal-immune cells signalling in inflammatory and neuropathic pain

• Investigate potential links between oral bacteria, systemic inflammation and cardiovascular disease

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Multidisciplinary environment to combine molecular, morphological and clinical approaches.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Digital molecular pathology approaches to characterize the immune contexture of cancers using high quality biosamples
• Investigating the role of the oral microbiome in cancer risk and malignant transformation
• Identifying and validating molecular biomarkers for stratification of patients with cancers

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Technology/platform-agnostic prior knowledge transfer
• Compositional statistics
• Pre-clinical model selection/chacterisation
• Prognostic/predictive subtyping
• Consensus/meta-clustering
• Landmark analysis
• Progression routes from pre-malignancy to cancer
• Mixed signal deconvolution/convolution

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Medical education

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• To study the role of the histamine four receptor in the regulation of neutrophil phagocytosis
• To study the role of acidic pH in the regulation of anti-microbial functions of neutrophils

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Mechanisms of radioresistance
• Drug radiotherapy combinations
• In vivo models and small animal radiotherapy
• Nanoparticle theranostics

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cellular DNA damage response system and its link with cancer development

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Behaviour change interventions focusing on diet and/or obesity across a range of population groups
• Obesity management
• Preconception health for men and women - improving health status before pregnancy

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cancer epidemiology
• Autoimmune conditions in particular pernicious anaemia.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Design, conduct and evaluation of mixed-methods
• qualitative research on cancer
• blindness prevention and pediatric palliative care in LMICs. 

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Physical activity
• Sedentary behaviour and exercise in schools, workplaces or with older adults

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Innate immunity
• Cell and molecular biology
• Retinal pathophysiology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Investigate key processes involved in the underlying biology driving epigenetic alterations
• Nucleotide metabolism in cancer development
• Novel drug targeting of these processes through in vitro cell line-based models and in vivo cancer mouse models.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Weight management before, during and after pregnancy
• Understanding diet and lifestyle behaviours of different groups
• Developing and evaluating behaviour change interventions

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Lung microbiome
• Aerosol therapy in critical care
• Prevention of post-operative pulmonary complications and mechanistic studies to understand pulmonary inflammation and injury.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cancer predisposition genetics
• Molecular pathology
• Functional genetics

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Medical education in the General Practice setting
• Transformative learning
• Safe care and quality improvement in healthcare
• Novel platforms for medical education

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Development and implementation of psychological interventions for people with neurodegenerative illness
• Implementation of quality improvement programs in palliative care
• Development and implementation of healthcare quality inspection techniques
• Development and implementation of evidence-based interventions for reduction of loneliness among older people

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Characterisation of a molecular group in solid cancers that represents an innate immune response to DNA damage through the STING pathway.
• Development of a gene expression based biomarker panel that can identify pathways related to the hallmarks of cancer and guide patient therapy.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Transcriptional control
• Signal transduction
• Chromatin remodeling and epigenetics
• DNA damage signalling
• Cell Senescence
• Molecular cell biology
• Biochemistry

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Translational research
• The conduct of patient assessment and the relation to clinical measures including risk factors and biomarkers in the various dementia syndromes is the main focus.         

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Vascular stem cell biology
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Diabetic vascular complications
• Cellular senescence
• Angiogenesis

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Laboratory based investigations of novel drugs and biomarkers
• Discovery of resistance mechanisms to therapy
• Innovative biomarker development using clinical samples

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• MRes project: Development of Novel Cathepsin V inhibitors to Validate role in Breast Cancer
• MRes project: Testing of Epigenetic Probes in Cancer Immune Cells
• MRes project: Design, synthesis and SAR exploration of Novel LSD1 inhibitors

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Clinically-focused research, Relating to improving the diagnosis of serious infection in hospitalised patients, such as diagnostic accuracy studies.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Ophthalmic epidemiology
• Optometry
• Vision science
• Psychophysics
• Ophthalmology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Laboratory based investigations into molecular mechanisms including altered pro-survival signaling pathways in RASMT and BRAFMT CRC
• Discovery of novel resistance mechanisms to therapy mechanisms in RASMT and BRAFMT CRC
• Innovative biomarker development using samples from RASMT and BRAFMT CRC patients

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Mental health
• Ageing
• Co-morbidity/multi-morbidity
• Social determinants of health/social environment.
• Subjective well-being

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Transcription dysfunction in disease
• Functional genomics and integrative bioinformatics
• Identification of novel genomically informed treatment strategies

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Innate immunity
• Repair and regeneration
• MiRNA function
• Transcriptomics in the field of acute and chronic lung inflammation and disease

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Proton Relative Biological Effectiveness
• Intrinsic radiosensitivity
• The impacts of intercellular communication on radiation responses

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Improved understanding of tumour initiating events in BRCA mutation carriers
• Investigation and management of breast cancer risk
• Development of treatment biomarkers in the pre-surgical setting

We need biology, physics and clinical PhDs to work with our large team to analyse clinical trial information and samples with a view to identifying novel predictive and prognostic biomarkers for radiotherapy treatment in prostate cancer.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Respiratory syncytial virus biology, pathogenesis, and vaccines.
• Paramyxovirus vaccine vectors, in particular Sendai virus.
• Culture and exploitation of well-differentiated primary human airway epithelium cell cultures.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cancer clinical trials
• Basic scientific and translational investigation of mechanisms of treatment resistance

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Discrete choice models.
• Secondary data analysis.
• Longitudinal data.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Encompass training in highly skilled laboratory techniques as well as in transferable skills.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Pharmacology
• Spatiotemporal aspects of GPCR signalling
• Pathophysiology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cellular microbiology of bacterial respiratory pathogens
• Functional genomics of bacterial virulence factors
• Subversion of innate immune cells by infection
• Proteomics approaches to study signaling at the pathogen-host interface

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Molecular mechanisms involved in dysregulation of the ubiquitin proteasome system in multiple myeloma
• Identify opportunities for therapeutic intervention.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Child eye health
• Low vision, vision impairment and blindness
• Eye health education
• Uncorrected refractive error

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• molecular, cellular, genetic and disease models of inflammation and inflammatory diseases 

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Harnessing ECFCs to repair choriocapillaris during geographic atrophy
• The role of the placental growth factor pathway in age-related retinal disease
• Metabolic plasticity of retinal cells in ischaemia and the potential to regulate physiological angiogenesis
• Identifying key molecular mechanisms underpinning ECFC dysfunction in diabetic microvascular disease.
• Development of vascular stem cell therapy for ischaemic retinopathy
• Combinatorial cell therapy for reversing tissue ischaemia
• The potential of iPS cell technology to understand mechanisms underpinning patient responsiveness to anti-VEGF agents for diabetic macular oedema

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Primary and secondary research on visual disorders

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Critical care studies that include studies conducted within and after ICU
• ICU survivorship
• Trial methodology studies

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Nanomedicine
• Antibody therapeutics
• Proteases and pancreatic cancer

• Respiratory Disease
• Inflammation
• Innate Immunity

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cancer biology

• Cell death

• Drug resistance

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Developing clinical biomarker strategies in cancer
• Using comprehensive genomic approaches to detect DNA alterations that can provide clinically meaningful diagnostic, prognostic or predictive information.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Immunology
• Neuroscience
• Stem/Progenitor cell biology
• Tissue regeneration
• Neuroinflammation
• Demyelinating diseases

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Life-course epidemiology and methods
• Complex public health interventions
• Decision sciences.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Simulation based education

•  Medical Education

• OSCEs

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Immunology
• Cell and molecular biology
• Retinal pathophysiology
• Pharmacology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Metabolic dysregulation/stress response signaling.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Nutrition
• Particularly dietary intervention studies
• Projects involving innovative dietary assessment
• Behaviour change interventions.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Bone-seeking radionuclides in prostate cancer
• New therapeutics in CRPC
• Advanced radiotherapy in prostate cancer
• Genomic stratification in prostate cancer

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Airway Clearance
• Exercise and rehabilitation
• Methods for optimizing clinical trials

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Benign
• Malignant urolog
• Ion channels in health and disease

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.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Optimization of bone-seeking radionuclides for targeted molecular radiotherapy
• Defining stem-cell mediated radioresistance in recurrent brain tumours
• Building a biological-based rationale for the use of particle-based radiotherapies
• Understanding Radiation-induced bystander and abscopal responses
• Defining Next generation laser-produced ion-beams for advanced radiotherapy

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Non-adherence in asthma
• Stratified Medicine / Personalised medicine
• Health informatics / Health economics

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Neuroinflammation and airways disease
• Early life influences on adult respiratory health
• Cohort studies in Early COPD
• Phase II/III Clinical trials in cough, asthma and COPD

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Phenotype
• Genotype
• Cancer biomarker development from discovery to clinical adoption

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Myeloproliferative neoplasms
• Investigation the causes of congenital erythrocytosis

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Development and evaluation of health services and public health interventions
• Implementation science and improvement science
• Integrated health and social services
• Service organization and delivery

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Molecular mechanisms of intrinsic multi-drug antibiotic resistance
• Biogenesis of the Gram-negative bacterial outer membrane, especially lipopolysaccharide and cell wall peptidoglycan
• Cellular microbiology of opportunistic  Gram-negative bacterial pathogens in phagocytic cells.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Investigate improving the quality and usefulness of trials and reviews

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  Conduct health services research more generally

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  Conduct research relevant to humanitarian emergencies.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Strategies to correct and prevent myopia among children in low-resources areas of LMICs
• Measuring early outcomes in cataract surgery in underserved areas
• Improved care for complex diseases such as glaucoma and diabetic eye disease in rural Asia

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• DNA damage repair
• Transcriptional regulation
• Mechanisms of sensitivity/resistance to DNA damage based therapeutics

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Characterisation of a molecular group in solid cancers that represents an innate immune response to DNA damage through the STING pathway
• Development of a gene expression based biomarker panel that can identify pathways related to the hallmarks of cancer and guide patient therapy

Open to PhD applications in the field o

• Microvascular biology and disease
• Pharmacological
• Gene therapy-based approaches

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Research can be configured to students’ specific interests, but that depends mainly on candidates’ ability to obtain studentship funding.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Ophthalmic image analysis
• Diabetic retinopathy screening
• Epidemiology of eye diseases in different populations around the world

Open to PhD applications in:

• Fibre reinforced composites
• Nano-enhanced polymers
• Design and manufacture of composite parts
• Injection overmoulding

Open to PhD applications in:

• Thermal comfort modelling and analysis in buildings and mass transport systems
• Numerical modelling of expansion device systems for the aerospace industry
• Numerical modelling of intra cranial human physiology

Open to PhD applications in:

• Sustainable energy and environmental systems
• The circular economy for energy and materials
• Biogas, biomass and biofuels
• Energy, carbon and environmental life cycle assessment

Open to PhD applications in:

• Engineering design systems
• Ssimulation intent
• Composites simulation techniques
• Structural analysis methodology

Open to PhD applications in bioresorbable biomaterials including:

• Accelerated test methods for predicting long-term performance of biomaterials
• Bioresorbable polymers used in orthopaedic and cardiovascular applications, for example PLLA, PGA and various co-polymers
• Influence of sterilisation technologies on performance of biomaterials
• Electron beam modification of polymers
• Calcium phosphate biomaterial
• Tissue scaffolds via layer-by-layer manufacture

Open to PhD applications in:

• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Open to candidates with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Polymer Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another relevant discipline.

Open to PhD applications in:

• Functional materials
• Biomaterials
• Nanotechnology
• Aircraft manufacturing

Open to PhD applications in the fields of

• Biomechanics/biomaterials for surgical planning
• Medical device design/evaluation
• Fundamental mechanobiology of cells/tissues.

Individuals interested in working with Dr Lennon are welcome to contact him to discuss ideas and/or possible collaborations.

Open to PhD applications in:

• Finite elements, meshless and other advanced numerical methods
• Multi-scale and Multi-physics modelling of advanced composites
• Damage and fracture mechanics
• Contact mechanics
• Error estimation and adaptive analysis
• Finite deformation and elasto-plasticity 
• Stochastic finite element method and reliability analysis

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Nanomaterials and electron microscopy research
• Transmission electron microscopy In-situ studies of ferroelectric domains
• High-resolution quantitative techniques 

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• The interface between fundamental atomic physics and astrophysics.
• Candidates should be also interested in taking first principle fundamental research through to application.
• High performance computing is a significant component of the work.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Algebraic topology
• Homotopy functor calculus
• Homotopical algebra
• Equivariant homotopy theory
• Stable Homotopy theory
• Model categories and Bousfield localisations

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Advanced schemes for ion- acceleration using lasers
• Particle radiography of ultrafast plasma phenomena
• Generation and propagation of collisionless shocks in tenuous plasmas
• Radiobiology and dosimetry of laser-accelerated ions

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Plasmonic and magnetic materials
• Novel plasmonic materials for applications
• Artificial and structured magnetic thin films and multilayers

Open to PhD applications in

• All aspects of laser-atom interaction, especially those with a focus on electron correlation effects

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Plasmonic and magnetic materials
• Novel plasmonic materials for applications
• Artificial and structured magnetic thin films and multilayers

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Theoretical laser-molecule interactions and the simulation of dynamical transport in nanostructures

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Plasmas and electron attachment
• Development of a new electron attachment spectrometer for environmental monitoring
• Plasmas in conducting and insulating liquids
• Development of new atmospheric pressure plasma source for medical applications

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cometary and asteroid observational research
  
• Spectroscopy of cometary bodies
  
• Spectroscopy and photometry of asteroidal objects

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Ferroelectric and multiferroic domains and domain walls

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Solar physics and cool star research
• Positron interactions with atoms and molecules
• Quantum chaos in many-electron atoms and multicharged ions

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• The development and applications of first-principles approaches to electronic and optical properties of materials

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Nanophotonics of two-dimensional materials
• Superresolution optical focusing and imaging in the far field

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• homological algebra
• K-theory and graded algebra
• Concrete projects are advertised regularly on the departmental web pages:
• http://web.am.qub.ac.uk/wp/msrc/msrc-home-page/postgrad_opportunities/ 

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Solar physics research
• Spectro-polarimetry and inversions of powerfully magnetic sunspot atmospheres; and
• Tracking the generation, propagation and dissipation of MHD wave modes as they traverse the dynamic atmospheric layers of the Sun

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• High intensity laser driven ion and neutron sources

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Solar physics research
• Spectro-polarimetry and inversions of small-scale magnetic fields
• Automated feature tracking algorithms in relation to small-scale magnetic elements and plasma flows on the Sun

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Data analytics applied to health data
• Decision modelling methodology
• Pharmacoeconomics modelling
• Currently available projects posted here

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Operator Algebras
• Abstract Harmonic Analysis and Linear Preservers
• Current available projects would be posted on http://web.am.qub.ac.uk/wp/msrc/msrc-home-page/postgrad_opportunities/

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Laser-Plasma Diagnostics at high repetition-rate
• Targetry for high intensity Laser-Matter Interaction
• Particle Sources from Nuclear Fusion Reactions

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Analysis
• Algebra
• Topology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Quantum optics
• Quantum information
• Quantum technologies

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Solar physics and cool star research
• Spectropolarimetry of small-scale structures in the solar atmosphere
• Radiative hydrodynamic simulations of solar and stellar flares

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Nanoscale ferroelectric/ferroelastic materials
• Generation and control of functionally active domain walls in electronic device formats
• Fundamental studies of heat flow manipulation using domain walls

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Topological Data Analysis
• Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration
• Stochastic Geometry

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Atomic data generati0on for use in astrophysics, plasma physics and fusion
• Atomic data for the lowly ionised Fe-peak elements
• Heavy species relevant for fusion research applications

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Fast electron propagation in laser-plasmas
• Atmospheric plasma jets
• Laboratory astrophysics

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Laser and plasma physics
• Particle acceleration and applications
• Laboratory astrophysics
• High-field quantum electrodynamics both from an experimental and theoretical point of view

Open to PhD applications in the fields of

• Small body Solar System observational research
• Ground-based photometry of Solar System bodies
• Exploring seasonal processes on Mars’ polar regions
• Mining large observational datasets for Solar System Science
• Exploring cometary activity in the Solar System’s small body populations

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Perator theory
• Linear dynamics
• Subjects related to algebras given by generators and relations 

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Spectral properties of Schrödinger operators with complex potentials
• Edge states in graphene structures
• Damped and singular systems in mathematical physics

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Numerical radiative transfer / spectral modelling for astrophysical explosions and outflows
• Current particular interests include:
• Multi-D radiative transfer for supernova explosion models
• Radiative transfer for outflows from accreting systems

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Applications from self-funded students interested in numerical modelling of metallic and magnetic nanoparticles for medical application (hyperthermia) are welcome
• Additional funding may be also available  

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Operator Algebras
• Abstract Harmonic Analysis
• Zero-error Quantum Information Theory

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• The theory and simulation of transport in nanostructures and non-adiabatic electron-nuclear dynamics in non-equilibrium systems

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Molecular dynamics and rare events sampling
• Using dimensionality reduction to understand trajectory data
  
• Development of CVs for studying order disorder transitions

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Stellar astrophysics and exoplanet research
• Probing exoplanet atmospheres
• Mitigating astrophysical noise: Towards the confirmation of Earth-2.0

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Coherent XUV/soft X-ray generation from laser interactions and their applications
• Experimental and/or simulation based projects are possible

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Supernovae physics, kilonovae and developing models for lightcurves and spectra
• Massive data processing and machine learning
• Supernovae: observations and models of exotic transients
• Machine learning and image recognition algorithms
• Surveying the sky in the time domain – the new era

Not currently accepting applications

No openings for PhD students at present

Open to PhD applications in 

• Solar Physics
• Solar Flares
• Solar Irradiance
• Space Weather
• EUV Spectroscopy

Not currently taking applications

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics/Attosecond Science
• Chiral Analysis with Femtosecond Lasers

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Development and analysis of cancer invasion models

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Law and society in English Ireland (c.1200-c.1540)
• Medieval Irish towns
• Women in Medieval Ireland

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Irish revolution (1916-21); Politics and society in independent Ireland (post-1921); women in modern Ireland

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Race and immigration
• Urban history
• The New Left

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• British Political History after 1918, including the Thatcher Era
• Britain and the Cold War
• British Political History and Northern Ireland

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Twentieth century Italian history
• Sexuality and emotions in twentieth-century (especially southern) Europe
• The post-war European ‘economic miracle’, 1950s-1970s
• History of motherhood and infant feeding

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Early Modern Ireland
• Seventeenth-Century Britain
• History of Medicine

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:

• Roman history
• Roman law
• early Christianity
• ancient Judaism
• Greek history
• Late Antique history.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Medieval social and economic history
• Medieval urban history
• Pre-modern markets and trade

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• European Reformation History
• Early Modern Religious History (1450-1800)
• Social and Cultural History of Germany
• German Renaissance

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Nineteenth-century social history
• Crime history
• Women’s history

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Nineteenth-century Irish history
• Comparative famine history
• Pre-Troubles history of Northern Ireland

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Puritanism, especially John Owen
• John Nelson Darby
• Contemporary American evangelicalism

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Protestantism in Ireland since 1600
• Comparative history of evangelical Protestantism
• Pre-Troubles religious history of Northern Ireland

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Urban history 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 19th and 20thc. African American history
• US labour and social history
• History of the American Left

Open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Modern Europe
• Interwar Europe 1919-1939
• the European Civil Wars, 1914-1945
• the Spanish Civil War
• Modern Spain
• the Second World War

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• International relations theory
• Global ethics
• Democratic theory
• Climate change and sustainable transitions

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Modern Irish history
• Politics and culture in 20th century Ireland
• Commemoration and historical memory

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• History of Imperial Science in India
• Nutritional Science History
• British literary representations of India
• Missionary Networks of Print

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Early modern British history, particularly social and cultural history

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• African history and the Portuguese-speaking world
• Religion, Christian missionaries, and Islam
• Civil wars, conflict resolution, negotiations and mediation

I welcome PhD applications from students in Asian, imperial, transnational or world history. Through the Robert Hart Project, we have a particular concentration of research into Sino-Western relations. I am also keen to work with students around public history, digital methods or innovative methodologies.

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:

• Sino-Western relations and trade
• Imperial and transnational history
• Photography in Asia
• Ireland and empire

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Oral history
• Working class community (including deindustrialisation)
• Gender history
• Social history of Belfast since Partition

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Carolingian history
• Early medieval intellectual history
• Glossing studies

Open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Late medieval history of Britain, Ireland and Europe
• Occupational structure
• Migration
• Revolts

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Roman history

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of African American, women’s, and US history in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Modern European history
• Russia and the Soviet Union
• Intellectual history in the 20^th century
• International history and politics

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:

• Irish gender and women’s history in the modern period
• Gender legal history especially relating to marriage and its dissolution
• Reform movements
• Modern Irish politics

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Twentieth-Century U.S. History
• Gender Studies
• African American Studies
• U.S. Cultural Studies

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Rituals, symbols and group identity
• Commemoration and memory
• The anthropology of Ireland
• Conflict transformation
• Political violence
• Anthropology and policy

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Cognitive Anthropology of Religion & Ritual
• Cognitive Anthropology of Atheism

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Cognitive Anthropology
• Psychology
• Experimental Philosophy

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Material Production and Art
• Migration and Transnationalism
• Emotions and Affect

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Popular/folk music and politics
• Creative industries, production and labour
• Performance and identity
• Globalisation, cosmopolitanism and social/political movements
• Aesthetics, genre and improvisation

I am open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Secularisation, atheism, non-religion and related topics
• Cognitive and social anthropology of religion
• Anthropology of morality

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Space and time
• Properties
• Events
• Persons
• Divine attributes
• Divine foreknowledge and human freedom
• Theological anthropology

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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.

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Intergenerational justice
• Social egalitarianism
• Republicanism
• Climate ethics
• Risk ethics
• Moral responsibility
• Social norms
• Global justice
• Moral free-riding
• Natural resource governance

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Moral philosophy, including applied ethics, bioethics and normative moral theory
• Transitional justice
• Legal philosophy
• Analytical political philosophy
• Philosophy for children

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Medical ethics
• Public health ethics
• Ethics and new technologies
• Ethics and risk

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Interplay of social and institutional change in postcommunism in issue areas of non-discrimination
• Minority protection
• Migration
• Civil society

Open to PhD applications in the field 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)

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• 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;

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Weapons politics and arms control
• Materialities of violence and security
• Border control
• Surveillance and sensory politics
• Critical security theories
• New materialism, Science and Technology and post-humanisms
• Interdisciplinary projects

Open to PhD applications in the field 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

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Critical war studies
• Sociological and postcolonial approaches to armed conflict
• Society, identity and security

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• International Relations
• Feminist Security Studies
• Affect, Aesthetics and Embodiment in IR
• The everyday politics of War/Peace
• Feminist Theory and Activism
• Border Politics
• Postsocialism Studies

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Irish politics and history
• the politics and history of nationalism
• political violence and terrorism

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Political parties, party organisation and democracy
• Territorial politics and devolution in the UK and in a comparative perspective
• Citizen engagement and democratic innovations