Funded research projects

There are currently no open studentships.

• Project Title: Towards Machine Understanding of Human Languages: AI for Storytelling Across Languages

• Project Title: 5G & Edge computing technologies to unlock compelling immersive multiuser experiences for mobile XR applications

• Project Title: Bridging the gap between Virtual & Physical Film & Television Production: Virtual Production and Real-Time pipelines in the studio environment.

• Project Title: When an Adult with Learning Disability Goes Missing: A mixed methods study to inform prevention and response

• Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning for Next-Generation IoT (NG-IoT) Security

• Helpful and unhelpful aspects of therapy following spiritually transformative experiences

• Gateway to esports: Enhancing access and retention for casual audiences in competitive video games

• Open your MIND: Leveraging the ecological validity of language control research using immersive technologies

• Quantifying organic carbon losses in soils through natural processes and land management practises

• Revolutionising Heritage Conservation through AI-Powered Analysis of Timber Beam-Column Connections

• Project Title: 5G & Edge computing technologies to unlock compelling immersive multiuser experiences for mobile XR applications

• Project Title: Towards Machine Understanding of Human Languages: AI for Storytelling Across Languages

• Project Title: Reframing the 'social' in social return on investment: constructing more meaningful monitoring and evaluation in football, development and beyond. 

• Project Title: Active transport of Gold-coated iron oxide superparamagnetic nanoparticles: A universal delivery vehicle.

• PhD Research Studentship: BARIToNE Project 9 - towards climate-positive cropping: developing model-based approaches to identify pathways, and evidence benefits.

• PhD Research Studentship: Reframing the ‘social’ in social return on investment: constructing more meaningful monitoring and evaluation in sport for development and beyond.

• PhD Research Studentship 5G Edge- XR for unlocking compelling immersive experiences

• PhD Research Studentship: Investigating the impact of police communications and initiatives on public perceptions of progress in enhancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: A case of Police Scotland

• PhD Research Studentship: How, when and where can preconception interventions be utilised in Scotland

• PhD Research Studentship: Co-creating Performance and Play: Supporting community cohesion and well-being through mixed-media co-production

• Masters by Research (MbR) with technical work experience.

• PhD Studentship: Towards climate-positive barley: developing model-based approaches to identify pathways and evidence benefits

• PhD Research Studentship: Investigating the potential of Extended Reality for alternative understandings of forced migration and devastated Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage Sites.

• PhD Research Studentship: Using avatars in investigative interviews with children.

• PhD Research Studentship: How do we best teach our children to be cyber secure?

• PhD Research Studentship: Machine learning to determine soil properties: a smartphone-based solution for stakeholders

• RLINCS PhD studentship: The effect of different types of omega-3 fatty acids on exercise capacity in the elderly

• RLINCS PhD studentship: Using Affective Computing to Create an Emotional Bond between Users and Virtual Agents for Enhanced Social Interaction

• R-LINCS PhD Studentship: Using VR to Investigate the Visual Features that Determine the Effectiveness of Disruptive Camouflage

• R-LINCS PhD Studentship: Eco-grief and community experiences of changing water practices in Malawi

• PhD Studentship: Seals as sentinels of antimicrobial resistance: mapping antimicrobial resistance genes in UK waters

• PhD Studentships: A 4D Virtual Tumour for Cancer Ecology.

• RLINCS PhD Research Studentships: Investigating the Chemistry of a Cold Smoking Process and its Impacts on Food Safety and Quality; Deep Learning Intrusion Detection System for the Internet of Things; Characterising fat tissue structure and function in grey seals, an animal model of extreme fat deposition and mobilisation, using novel in vivo and in vitro approaches; Applying the self-reference effect to improve children’s mathematical problem solving; Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury in female athletes.

• Master by Research Studentships in Mental Health Nursing: Various areas of research focus will be considered. 

• Master by Research Studentship: Developing a successful food new product development tool linking effective testing (using facial electromyography) with sensory attribute selection

• PhD Research Studentship: Exploiting yeast diversity in whisky fermentations for biocatalysis of desirable flavour compounds. 

• PhD Research Studentship: Evaluating the effect of plant species on soil carbonation flux

• PhD Research Studentship: Fluid-aerosol modelling of cloud evolution in substellar atmospheres (R-LINCS)

• Master by Research Studentship: Developing a successful food new product development tool linking effective testing (using facial electromyography) with sensory attribute selection

• MSc Research Studentship: Utilising crushed dolerite columns to stabilise unstable substrates using microbial-induced calcite precipitation (MICP): coupling ground improvement and climate mitigation - laboratory approach 

• Games and Media Facilitated e-Learning 

• Developing a successful new food product development, tool linking effective testing (using facial electromyography) with sensory attribute selection

• A generic framework for atmospheric fluid-aerosol modelling with applications in astrophysics, computer games and environment

• Utilising crushed dolerite columns to stabilise unstable substrates using microbial-induced calcite precipitation (MICP): coupling ground improvement and climate mitigation – numerical modelling approach

•  Exploring self-reference effects in children with ADHD

• Application of focused 'omics' approaches to the study of biological phenomena implicated in musculoskeletal ageing. (R-LINCS)

• CLOSED - Modelling of multiphase flow in deformable agricultural soils (Hosted at Abertay University for Tayside Centre for Geotechnical Engineering in Natural Environments)

• Development of Effective Guidelines and Communication Tools for the Protection of Rural Private Water Supplies from Sources of Pollution 

• Detection, analysis and clinical application of spermatozoa biochemical profile using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). (R-LINCS)

• Multiple missing: an exploration of behavioural consistency in repeat missing adults. (R-LINCS)

• Application of focused 'omics' approaches to the study of biological phenomena implicated in musculoskeletal ageing. (R-LINCS)

• Connecting Performance and Play: interdisciplinary design methods for the development of games and performance – ARCS/ SGSAH  studentship (Abertay University, National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)

• Investigation into and Development of Processes for the Enhancement of Safety and Shelf Life of Fresh Produce. (R-LINCS and James Hutton Institute)

• Ecology at play: An exploration of natural data through game design. (IW Stewart PhD Studentship) 

• Developing of 4D Imaging Methods to Quantify Soil Structural Dynamics with applications to Soil Science and Environmental Engineering. (R-LINCS)

• Addressing the Fundamental Problems of Cyber-Security through Anti-Patterns. (R-LINCS)

• Interaction between emotion and communication. (R-LINCS)

• Investigating structural synaptic plasticity as a novel therapeutic target for functional recovery from spinal cord injury. (R-LINCS)

• Securing cyberspace: Development and validation of a novel research and evaluation toolset. (R-LINCS)

• The Social and Organisational Construction of Ethical Hacking. (R-LINCS)

• A systematic study of the effect of ultrasound on food enzymes and bioaccessibility of bioactive compounds (model and real food systems). (R-LINCS)

• Assisting Digital Forensic Reconstruction via Exploratory Information Visualisation. (SICSCA)

• Exploring the Role of Monitoring Agents and Affective Feedback in Enhancing Cyber Security for Average Users. (SICSCA)

• Games Design, a new Approach for a New Industry. (ESRC)

• Design and Action. (AHRC)

• Exploring Interactive Design Engineering Methodologies. (AHRC)

• Investigation of the performance of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) on the Scottish Trunk Road Network (STRN). (BEAR)

• Factors controlling root growth in heterogeneous substrates: physical structures and root behaviour. (R-LINCS in partnership with James Hutton Institute)

• When do dialects become languages? (Leverhulme)

• Computer and Web Enabled Food Product Evaluation. (MacPhie of Glenbervie Ltd)

• Customer Honesty in Self-Service Interactions. (R-LINCS)

• Nano-and bio-technologies for food science and technology. (SORSAS)

• Role of Second Generation Phosphodiesterase Inhibitor(s) and Adenosine-Triphosphate on Human Sperm Motility. (SORSAS)

• Influence of soil structure on the spatial and temporal distribution of bacteria in soil. (SORSAS)

• Ecosystem service goods and benefits accruing from sustainable approaches to urban water management (SORSAS)

• Understanding Early Intervention: A Case Study of Dundee (SIPR)

• MPhil Research Studentship, 2 years: Project Title: Games and Media Facilitated e-Learning

• PhD Research Studentship: Mapping for Social Innovation

• MPhil Studentship: Development and validation of sequencing and bioinformatics methodologies to identify pathogenic mutations in candidate male infertility genes.

• PhD Studentship: Parental Involvement in Sport: Improving the Quality of Children’s Sport Experiences and Wellbeing

• PhD Studentship: Co-Design Mapping for Social Innovation Project.

• PhD Studentship: Enhancing Scotland’s resilience to climate change.

• PhD Studentship: Active transport of Gold-coated iron oxide superparamagnetic nanoparticles: A universal delivery vehicle.

• PhD Studentship: BARIToNE CTP - Towards climate-Positive barley: developing model-based approaches to identify pathways and evidence benefits (PROTECT)