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PhD topics for research students

Find below a list of currently available self-funded PhD topics.

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Supervisor
Funding
Trust In Autonomous Vehicles
Problem Statement Several recent research studies have suggested that 鈥渓ack of trust鈥 is one of the major factors which is slowing the commercial introduction of autonomous vehicles. While the technol...
Self Funded
Naturalness of autonomous vehicles
Problem Statement Naturalness and simplicity are well known prerequisites of success in product, system and service design. Autonomous vehicles have, however, few precedents in human history and are t...
Self Funded
Artificial Intelligence in customer interactions: factors influencing value creation and sustained use in a variety of contexts (e.g., healthcare and financial services)
As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used by more and more organisations - profit seeking and otherwise 鈥 to automate processes in more and more business...
Self Funded
Dynamics of seawater intrusion in heterogeneous coastal aquifers
Saltwater intrusion (SWI) in coastal aquifers is one of the main challenges for water resources management. It is a natural process that happens because of the density difference between the denser sa...
Self Funded
The economics of the private security sector in the UK
This PhD project seeks to understand the determinants and consequences of the increase of the private protection sector in the UK over the last years.   Private protection is a flourishing business in...
Self Funded