Research Degrees

PhD research student applications are welcomed by the HCI Research Group all year round.  Research students are valued members of our thriving, research-intensive team. We are particularly interested in supervising students' research in any of the broad range of topics listed below. Please note that the topic list is not exhaustive, so feel free to contact a member of HCI with your ideas. 

Some candidate PhD topics that group members are interested in supervising in the future may include, but are not limited to:

  • Digital Financial Services
  • Mobile Money/ Currencies
  • Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Interactions
  • Video Production
  • Family and Domestic Technologies
  • In-vehicle Interactions

See below a list of available PhD projects in Computer Science that includes projects in our area:

Description
Supervisor
Funding
Artificially intelligent conversational agents: exploring their value in education and/or healthcare
Artificially intelligent conversational agents (such as ChatGPT) are becoming increasingly common in our everyday lives. The benefits of using these technologies are becoming clear in a range of comme...
Arthur Money
Self Funded
Generative AI for Digital Marketing
In the domain of digital marketing, the integration of Generative AI presents an opportunity to enhance customer engagement, personalise marketing strategies, and optimise decision-making processes. B...
Yongmin Li
Self Funded
NLP for Business Intelligence
Business operations involve a large amount of data from their internal communications, presentations, reports, accounting and marketing, and external information from governments, industry sectors, cu...
Yongmin Li
Self Funded
Decision making for stratified medicine life cycle
Stratified medicine is at the cutting edge of a new era in healthcare, which targets to a specific patient population on the basis of a companion diagnostic (such as a biomarker) to predict treatment ...
Yang Yang
Self Funded
Decision making for stratified medicine life cycle
Stratified medicine is at the cutting edge of a new era in healthcare, which targets to a specific patient population on the basis of a companion diagnostic (such as a biomarker) to predict treatment ...
Yang Yang
Self Funded
AI system for historical handwritten text recognition (HTR)
Libraries around the world digitise the historical handwritten documents to preserve historical past and educate the people about the cultural heritage. However, a reliable optical character recogniti...
Md Nazmul Huda
Self Funded
Development of a miniature capsule robot for capsule endoscopy
A capsule robot has potential applications in medical diagnosis (e.g. capsule endoscopy) and treatments. In 2000, Given Imaging introduced the capsule endoscope which has many advantages over the trad...
Md Nazmul Huda
Self Funded
Explainable prediction modelling for early detection of risks in multiple long-term conditions using health records data
 Multiple Long-Term conditions (MLTC) are a major healthcare challenge associated with high service utilization and expenditure. In the project, the candidate will help develop robust and explainable ...
Self Funded
Development and Validation of Security Metrics and Predictive Models for Blockchain Ecosystems
Background: Blockchain technology is a transformative innovation that has the potential to disrupt various sectors including finance, healthcare, and governance. However, with its growing adoption, se...
Self Funded
Optimising end to end delay in 5G and Beyond networks
End to end delay is an important aspect in communication networks considering diverse applications ranging from healthcare to gaming. End to end delay is due to propagation, transmission, queuing and ...
Nila Nilavalan
Self Funded