PhD Studentships

PhD studentships are PhD funding opportunities supported by the University and organisations, where your research will be actively used in overcoming real-world problems. Contribute to research expertise at BCU and explore current PhD studentships here.

Built Environment

Co-Creating Inclusive Active Spaces: Empowering Teen Girls through Digital Interventions

West Midlands Landscape and Infrastructure: data, communication and decision-making

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Computing and Digital Technology

HearingXR: Accessible AR/VR for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

Real-Time Interpolation of Impulse Responses in Dynamic Virtual Environments

Smart Building Process Connectivity (SBPC): Enhancing Operational Efficiency through Data-Driven Algorithms

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Business

The role of transnational diaspora finance for the emerging economies’ farmers: Embeddedness, financial access, and innovation amongst Indian Punjabi Farmers

Design and Development of a Tool for the Assessment of Sustainable Performance for the Logistics Services in FMCG Ecommerce Supply Chains in Developing Nations

Investigating the Impact of Net-Zero Strategy on Firms' Energy Efficiency Performance and Economic Growth within the Framework of Sustainable Development Goals

Digital entrepreneurship: the impact of entrepreneurs’ attributes on the entrepreneurial processes and outcomes

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Psychology

Mindful Eating Behaviour in Children: Developing measurements and interventions for the next generation.

Developing a novel Precision Teaching intervention to enhance programming skills for HE students in science courses.

Using machine learning, AI and computational modelling to predict recovery from stroke from brain-scans across a range of language and cognitive deficits.

Self-Compassion in Eating: Developing Measures and Interventions to Promote Healthier Eating Behaviours

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Law

Critiquing Carceral Logics in response to Animal Welfare Crimes in Europe

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Criminology

Queering the Queer: Media Representations of Supernatural Bisexuality

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Nursing and Midwifery

What knowledge do neonatal nurses have of the needs of multiple birth families and what do they need to know to deliver excellent care?

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Health Sciences

The Impact of Alternative Active Travel on People’s Sport, Health and Mobile Lives

Design and Characterisation of Bioportides to Modulate Stem Cell Differentiation.

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Researcher blogs

Hear from our postgraduate researchers on what studying a PhD is like, from career opportunities to effective time management.

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Meet our researchers

BCU is home to talented and proactive research academics, who have created ground-breaking ideas challenging their field of study and the world.

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Research projects

Solving real world problems with our expertise. Our research talent and drive to add a genuine contribution to knowledge help us make a difference through our work.

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Graduate Scholarship

The Graduate Scholarship is a 20% fee reduction available to all BCU graduates (BA, BSc, LLB, MA, MSc, LLM, PGCE) enrolling onto an eligible Master’s or PhD qualification for the first time in 2024/25.

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Research Centres

Our research centres work to address key local, national and global challenges, in line with the priorities of the University and our students.

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