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Research Degree Projects

Select from the below research areas to browse over 300 projects that are on offer. Alternatively, you can apply with your own project idea.

CB-7: Research degrees – Studying in 2025/2026

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2025

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2026

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All Health Projects

Affective science

Aging Frailty and Mobility

Animal disease models

Blood cancer predisposition

Cardiac respiratory and vascular health

Chemistry neuroscience

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Clinical oncology research

Cognitive flexibility

Cognitive psychology

Computational biology

Computational fluid dynamics

Computer science

Critical illness

Developmental biology

Early origins of health

Gene regulation

Genetics and genetic disorders

Immunology and infection

Infant child and adolescent health psychology

Innovative therapeutics

Intelligent health

Machine learning

Materials engineering

Mechanical engineering

Medicinal chemistry

Molecular biology

Musculoskeletal health

Neurodegeneration

Neuroscience behaviour and brain health

Nutrition and metabolic health

Occupational health

Perinatal and infant mental health

Pharmacogenomics

Pharmacogenomics precision medicine

Photonics and applied physics

Pregnancy and birth

Signal processing

Surgical and health systems innovation

Translational health outcomes

Virtual reality education health

All Business projects

Corporate finance

Entrepreneurship

Finance and accounting

Finance and business analytics

Innovation management

Strategic management

Supply chain management human rights

Supply chain management resilience

Supply chain management sustainability

Water economics

All STEM projects

Advanced manufacturing

Advanced materials

Aerodynamics / Boundary layer turbulence

Aerospace engineering

Aging frailty and mobility

Agriculture food and wine

Analytical and environmental chemistry

Analytical chemistry

Animal behaviour

Animal disease models

Animal infectious diseases

Antibiotic-resistance

Applied physics

Applied sciences

Architecture and built environment

Bacterial genetics

Biodiversity and pest control benefits

Biological chemistry

Blood cancer predisposition

Cancer biology and clinical oncology research

Cancer biology and gene regulation

Chemical engineering

Chemical physics

Civil engineering

Civil environmental and mining engineering

Cognitive psychology

Computational astrophysics

Computational biology

Computational fluid dynamics

Computational mineralogy

Computer science

Conservation biology (marine)

Conservation genetics / eDNA

Construction management

Critical minerals

Early gastrointestinal tract cancer detection and treatment

Education and science

Electrical and electronic engineering

Electronic vehicle

Energy and energy resources

Environmental management

Environmental remediation

Evolutionary biology

Experimental particle physics

Freshwater ecology

Genetics and genetic disorders

Gravitational waves (physics)

Human-AI interaction

Immunology and infection

Infectious disease

Innovative therapeutics

Inorganic chemistry

Intelligent health

Land management, restoration, pastoral management

Machine learning

Machine learning and robotic vision

Materials chemistry

Mathematical modelling

Mathematical sciences

Mechanical engineering

Medical machine learning

Medical microbiology

Medicinal chemistry

Mining engineering

Molecular biology

Music technology and performing arts

Neuroscience behaviour and brain health

Optics lasers and photonics

Palaeoecology and ancient DNA

Pharmacogenomics

Photonics and applied physics

Physical chemistry

Physical chemistry and food

Physical geography

Plant biotechnology

Plant biochemistry

Plant protection

Plant synthetic biology

Precision agriculture

Pregnancy and birth

Protein structure

Pure mathematics

Quantum engineering

Quantum field theory

Quantum physics

Renewable energy

Reservoir and hydrology

Satellite system

Signal processing

Structural biology

Sustainable futures

Synthetic biology

Systems engineering

Theoretical chemistry

Transcriptomics

Veterinary public health and veterinary science

Veterinary sciences

Virtual reality

Virulence, reproductive impacts, vectors, transmission, natural host, spatial variants

Wind engineering

All People and Society projects

Agriculture food and wine

Applied animal behaviour, animal welfare

Architecture and built environment

Blacklisting and proscription

Computer science

Educational technology

The effect of AI on education

Environmental economics

Equality laws and law reform

Global food and resources

International relations

Media, cultural studies, humanities

Music technology and performing arts

Political sociology

Virtual reality

Philosophy (phenomenology) Education

Social anthropology, medical anthropology, gender studies, public health and ethnography

All ��ɫ��-Nottingham Alliance projects

All health projects

Architecture and built environment

Cell communication in yeast

Chemical engineering, advanced materials industrial chemistry

Global food systems

Intelligent health

Lactic acid bacteria biotechnology

Medical biochemistry

Molecular biology