PhD Projects
Many of our self-funded doctoral students come to Worcester with their own project ideas. However, our Research Groups and Centres have put together some ideas for potential PhD projects that they would be interested to supervise around their particular areas of expertise.
If you are interested in one of these projects, please contact the lead supervisor to have a chat about your interests and the project idea. If you then wish to the apply for this particular project, please go to our Course Search and select the relevant research degree programme area.
An application link can then be found towards the bottom of each programme page. In your application, please remember to clearly highlight that you are applying for one of our un-funded MPhil/PhD project ideas so we can be sure to remove this from the website, should your application be successful.
ARTS AND HEALTH RESEARCH GROUP
Addressing the Psycho-Emotional Impact of Climate Anxiety on Children and Young People through Illustration
Arts-led Approaches to Trauma, Memory and Healing
Reframing Critical and Socially Engaged Arts Practices from a Creative Health/Health Humanities Perspective
Representations of illness and/or disability and/or the National Health Service in British film and television
ASSOCIATION FOR DEMENTIA STUDIES
Adoption of proprietary home and community automation technologies in support of ageing-in-place
Measuring the cost-effectiveness of Meeting Centres
Pain management for people living with dementia in Extra Care
CONSTITUTIONS RIGHTS AND JUSTICE RESEARCH GROUP
Constitutional reform and the case for and against codification
DIGITAL INNOVATION AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH GROUP
Determining and understanding digital exclusion
Determining cyber attacks by using machine learning to detect message anomalies
INCLUSION BY DESIGN RESEARCH GROUP
Application of Universal Design and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in post compulsory education
INCLUSIVE SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RESEARCH GROUP
Men’s lives: the consequences of living with high levels of drive for muscularity
Nationalism, populist politics and sport migrations: heroes or villains?
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND WELLBEING RESEARCH GROUP
“Getting On With It!”: Ensuring Safe and Compassionate Supervision and Thinking Spaces for Practitioners in Child Protection Practice
How care-experienced individuals define and achieve career success
"Please take us seriously!": examining the help and support needs of male victims of domestic abuse
Pro-Environmental Behaviour and Life History Theory
Responsible virtual assistant for effective marketing communication
Training emotional competency in the workplace: Does ‘one size’ really ‘fit all’?
LIVING WELL WITH LONG TERM CONDITIONS RESEARCH GROUP
Clinical Significance and Diagnostic Accuracy of Special Tests in Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain
Living with allergy during the transition to secondary school
Routine Monitoring of Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
The impact of extended waiting times for treatment and investigation in people Long-term conditions
MOLECULAR PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOSCIENCES RESEARCH UNIT
Bidirectional mobile sRNA signalling in pea-downy mildew interactions
Developing synthetic microbial communities for the control of pea downy mildew
PARTICIPANT CENTRED LEARNING IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP
Examining Adaptations in Case Study Development to Enhance Participant Centred Learning in Management Education
SOCIAL PEDAGOGY RESEARCH GROUP
What Drives Social Pedagogy?
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP
Mapping the influence of teachers’ peer relationships on retention in rural schools
WORCESTER BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH GROUP
In silico modelling of endocannabinoid evolution
Prognostic Markers in Bladder Cancer
The BCAT1 CXXC motif and oncogenesis in acute myeloid leukaemia
The INDICO-II Study – Effects of body composition and dietary improvement on cell membrane dynamics and their relationship with the aetiology of type II diabetes