Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
450 research degree projects
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Electronics and computer science
Cross-Chain Security in Web3
This PhD project tackles the urgent need for robust security solutions in cross-chain environments in Web3, aiming to safeguard the integrity of interconnected blockchain networks. -
Electronics and computer science
Transparency of data collection and sharing in Internet-connected vehicles
Vehicles are becoming sensor-rich, collecting and sharing data about the drivers and passengers. This project aims to explore the drivers' and the passengers' awareness, expectations, and needs for in-vehicle data collection and sharing, identify the gap between their perceptions and vehicles' actual implementation, and develop more privacy-respectful systems. -
Electronics and computer science | Politics and international relations | Art, design, media and fashion | Sociology, social policy and criminology
Multimodal Natural Language Processing for Computational Social Science
This PhD focuses on developing deep-learning techniques based on multimodal natural language processing (NLP), including large language models (LLMs), audio processing, computer vision (pose estimation, emotion recognition), knowledge graphs or neurosymbolic models in computational social science, analysing discourse in text/audio/video format, including emotional rhetoric analysis, information extraction, and argument mining. -
Engineering | Mathematical sciences | Electronics and computer science | Medicine
Modelling and identification of cerebral blood flow control
The project focuses on understanding cerebral blood flow and its physiological control, to improve diagnosis and treatment of brain injuries. The project will adopt a control and system identification approach, and will benefit from the use of real data, clinical collaborations, and links with the international research network CARNet. -
Electronics and computer science | Medicine
Developing effective interfaces for EMA data collection to support prediction and treatment of health conditions in the community
Health technologies play important roles in earlier prediction of illness and enabling behavioural interventions to help manage conditions in the community. Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) provides essential data to these processes. This project will develop more frictionless interfaces to the collection of EMA data to support a range of interventions. -
Electronics and computer science | Engineering | Mathematical sciences
Theoretical Studies of Corona Induced Noise in Overhead Transmission Lines
As a research project within the Doctoral Centre for Advanced Electrical Power Engineering this thesis will consider a complex set of plasma chemical reactions and physical processes taking place in wet, low pressure air discharges and the noise/erosion associated with corona discharges in electric power equipment. -
Electronics and computer science
Time series machine learning
Time series machine learning is a rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence research. This project involves researching new algorithms for time series classification, helping develop the open-source aeon python toolkit, and collaborating with international partners to apply these algorithms to applications in health technology and human activity recognition. -
Electronics and computer science
Soft Robots with Integrated Sensing, On-Demand Therapy and AI-assisted Control
This PhD project aims to develop advanced soft robotic systems with integrated sensing, on-demand therapy, and AI-driven closed-loop control. This interdisciplinary research opportunity merges medical robotics, bioelectronics, and wearable technology for transformative healthcare applications. Ideal for innovators in biomedical engineering, robotics, or flexible electronics. -
Electronics and computer science | Philosophy
Ethical Alignment in Citizen-Centric AI
Interested in building trustworthy and responsible AI? Then join us at the University of Southampton to incorporate ethics into AI and build models and systems which can act in alignment with the ethical preferences of their users. Test and deploy these across diverse applications like transportation, energy management, disaster response. -
Electronics and computer science | Art, design, media and fashion
What is Art? At the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Art
This project explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Art, examining how machine learning can contribute to artistic creation and expand our understanding of what art is. Through developing generative models, physically embedded tools, and fostering human-AI collaborative artistic processes, this research addresses creativity, authorship, and originality.