You can study an MPhil over the course of one year or a PhD over the course of three years. Part-time study is also available.
You can study either option in any of our research groups:
Female members of academic staff in some Saudi universities may be eligible to apply for PhD entry under our External Joint Supervision Programme. This allows for study to take place in Saudi Arabia with occasional student visits to Strathclyde. In the first instance, prospective applicants should contact the External Joint Supervision Programme administrators in their home institution as local university support is required.
This exciting 42-month project will be part of the Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training (SCDT) in ‘Energy-efficient Indoor Climate Control for Optimised Health (EICCOH)’. The aim of this interdisciplinary SCDT is to meet the needs of the fast-growing green construction industry to optimise building performance and deliver net-zero buildings whilst promoting occupant’s health and wellbeing.
The University of Strathclyde’s Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering is offering a three-year fully funded PhD in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Smart Grids. This is based within the Intelligent Systems Team and will investigate distributed intelligence and the application of state-of-the-art Multi Agent System and related AI techniques to the control of distributed energy systems and smart grids.
Information on social media is prone to misinformation. This project aims to identify and classify menopause misinformation on social media. The PhD student will review the literature to define misinformation categories for menopause, train AI models to detect such content in social media posts and collaborate with menopause communities to design and evaluate a prototype for menopause misinformation identification in social media posts.
We are looking for PhD Students interested in making search engines (and machine learning in general) fairer, more transparent and explainable.
The goal of the project is to investigate the use of evolutionary computation in the development of autonomous systems.
This project aims to examine how adaptive academic search systems can better support English as a second language learners in finding and using relevant academic articles for their research. You will focus on the development and evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven adaptive multilingual search tools.
Information is usually assessed using cognitive criteria such as credibility, validity, etc. but often we make decisions on information according to how it makes us feel, e.g. excited, reassured, or annoyed. This PhD program will conduct an in-depth study of these emotional and visceral factors relating to information assessment.
Human knowledge is encoded in languages, but many languages, known as low-resource languages (LRLs), lack written resources in both print and digital formats. This project will investigate the development of multimodal retrieval information models for low-resource languages, by leveraging resources available for well resourced languages.
Menopause is the transition marking the end of menstrual periods. The menopausal transition is a significant and often challenging phase, where women may encounter a wide range of symptoms with varying degrees of severity, often leaving them feeling confused or uncertain. Many seek community support and shared experiences through engagement on social media platforms. This project aims to examine the information-seeking behaviours of women during menopause as they engage with online communities.
This funded PhD asks if and how chatbots can be designed to support and enhance visitor engagement with difficult heritage in art gallery contexts. It will inform professional practices to support visitors’ critical understanding of challenging topics, advancing social equality and inclusivity.
How do we decide what information to trust? Often this has been seen as a matter of intellectual decision-making and rationality, but we also recognise the strong emotional and social forces in decision-making. Other additional factors such as morality, credibility, persuasiveness come into play in a digital environment. How then do we decide who to believe when making life decisions?
Spirituality and religion is an important aspect of many people’s lives. Often however this is missed from the provision of health information which focuses purely on the scientific and secular. This thesis will investigate the relationship between spirituality/religion and how people make decisions about their health. This will enable us to see if we can create health information services that are more appropriate to how people think about their lives.
Large Language Models (LLMs) such, as Chat-GPT, are currently changing all the ways in which people interact with and get help from computers. Since the current changes in the fields of natural language processing and AI in general are so quick, then many aspects of LLMs are not understood, So, adapting them to specific domains is just starting. This includes healthcare, security, business, education, and many others.
Super-large language models such as ChatGPT have demonstrated surprising abilities in handling natural language, solving mathematical problems and writing programming code. Still, there is very little formal assessment of their capabilities in specialised domains, such as medical. The project will explore how certain various clinical events (such as readmitting a patient to a hospital) can be predicted based on the notes that the health professionals write in free text form.
Super-large language models such as ChatGPT have demonstrated surprising abilities in handling natural language, solving mathematical problems and writing programming code. Still, there is very little formal assessment of their capabilities in specialised domains, such as computer security. For example, we can look at watermarking if the generated content, code-word detection, malevolent content detection, authorship identification, etc.
Some life transitions are more difficult than others and the information behaviours we use in everyday life may not be appropriate for obtaining useful information during a significant life change. Information, however, is critical in tackling these changes. This PhD project will examine the information behaviours of people undergoing a significant life change.
Libraries are often described in terms of the benefits they provide to their users. Many writers have described them as a place of sanctuary or safety, others as a place of exploration and adventure or a place of community. This PhD will focus on the role of libraries as places: what roles do they play as community spaces, what metaphors are used to describe them, and what are the benefits arising from these civic spaces?
This project will investigate the use of technologies- particularly conversational agents for ‘pleasurable’ information behaviour in the domain of cultural heritage. It will focus on the information behaviour of people who identify as hobbyists or citizen historians of a particular time period, and their use and or avoidance of certain technologies, particularly conversational agents (such as ChatGPT) for seeking related information.
This project will investigate how cultural heritage is used to cultivate socio-political identities and groups in the context of digital platforms: particularly social media but also other online platforms such as blogs. In turn, the project will investigate how together technological infrastructures and cultural heritage contribute to divisions and cohesion within and between socio-political groups, having significance for government organisations and heritage institutions.
For the academic year 2025-2026, the St Andrew's Society for the State of New York is offering two scholarships to Scottish students wishing to study for a postgraduate Masters in the United States. Each studentship will have a maximum value of $45,000 USD.
Preference will be given to candidates who have no previous experience of the United States and for whom a period of study there can be expected to be a life-changing experience. Selection will be based on an all-around assessment, including character, experience academic achievement, and need.
The selection process is conducted by the Scholarship Committee of the Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of New York.
John Anderson Research Studentship Scheme (JARSS) doctoral studentships are available annually for excellent students and excellent research projects.
There are two main sources of funding:
The JARSS 2025/26 competition will open in October 2024 and students successful in this competition will commence studies in October 2025. Faculties will set their own internal deadlines for the competition.
Academics/Supervisors make the applications for this scheme and there are various deadlines across Departments and Faculties, therefore, in the first instance, all interested students should contact the Department where they would like to carry out their research.
We are pleased to announce a call for an EPSRC Doctoral Prize funded by the EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership grant. The award provides funding for one year of salary to support an outstanding researcher in further developing their research activities following completion of a PhD. To be eligible, candidates must have received EPSRC funding for their PhD or EngD programme, successfully passed their PhD viva voce exam, and submitted the final version of their thesis by the start of the Doctoral Prize project (expected between May and October 2025).
For the 2025 call, each Faculty is limited to two applications and should conduct an initial faculty-led selection process to identify their top two candidates for submission to the central panel. The deadline for each Faculty will be communicated internally.
All fees quoted are per academic year unless otherwise stated.
Entrants may be subject to a small fee during the writing up period.
Fees may be subject to updates to maintain accuracy. Tuition fees will be notified in your offer letter.
All fees are in £ sterling, unless otherwise stated, and may be subject to revision.
Students on programmes of study of more than one year (or studying standalone modules) should be aware that the majority of fees will increase annually. The University will take a range of factors into account, including, but not limited to, UK inflation, changes in delivery costs and changes in Scottish and/or UK Government funding. Changes in fees will be published on the University website in October each year for the following year of study and any annual increase will be capped at a maximum of 10% per year.
| Scotland | £4,786 |
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| England, Wales & Northern Ireland | £4,786 |
| Republic of Ireland |
If you are an Irish citizen and have been ordinary resident in the Republic of Ireland for the three years prior to the relevant date, and will be coming to Scotland for Educational purposes only, you will meet the criteria of England, Wales & Northern Ireland fee status. For more information and advice on tuition fee status, you can visit the UKCISA - International student advice and guidance - Scotland: fee status webpage. Find out more about the University of Strathclyde's fee assessments process. |
| International | £22,400 |
| Funding | Take a look at our funding your postgraduate research web page for funding information. You can also view our scholarships search for further funding opportunities. |
| Additional costs | International students may have associated visa and immigration costs. Please see student visa guidance for more information. |
Please note: the fees shown are annual and may be subject to an increase each year.
As part of your PhD, you will be enrolled in the Postgraduate Certificate in Researcher Professional Development (PgCert RPD).
This certificate is designed to enhance your research experience and recognize the skills and activities you develop as a research student.
It will help you build essential skills for both professional development and employability, including:
You will plan these activities alongside your doctoral studies, documenting and reflecting on your journey to success along the way.
The University Careers Service can help you with everything from writing your CV to interview preparation.
From financial advice to our IT facilities, we have a wide range of support for all students here at Strathclyde. Get all the information you need at Strathlife.
The Strathclyde Doctoral School offers a vibrant, student-centred research and training environment, dedicated to supporting both current and future research talent.
Bringing together all four of our faculties, it is committed to enhancing the student experience, increasing research outputs and opportunities, and ensuring that training is delivered at the highest standard.
As a postgraduate researcher, you will automatically become a member of the Strathclyde Doctoral School.
Research supervisors are assigned to you by the Department of Computer & Information Sciences. Let us know in your application who you'd like to work with, but the department will team you up with the best supervisor for your project.
Once we've received your application, your research proposal is passed to potential supervisors for consideration. If it's not compatible with the researcher's current projects and they are unable to supervise, it's passed along to another for consideration. If they can supervise you, they’ll confirm and nominate a potential second supervisor.
As soon as a second supervisor is confirmed, an offer will be sent to you through Pegasus, our online application system.
When you accept our offer of study, you'll receive a full offer in writing via the email address you'll have provided.
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| Dr Leif Azzopardi |
Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Developing, evaluating and modelling information rich and information intensive applications and agents -- and thus we develop novel Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval Systems underpinned by Natural Language Processing, Language Modelling, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. |
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| Dr Milena Dobreva |
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| Prof Feng Dong |
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| Dr Mark Dunlop | Usability of mobile systems including mobile text entry, sensor-driven interaction and evaluation of mobiles. He is increasingly interested in digital health applications of mobile HCI research. User, Keyboard, Design, Patient, Smartphones, Application, Mobile Device. |
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| Dr Kieren Egan |
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| Dr Mohamed Soliman Elawady |
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| Prof Anil Fernando |
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| Prof Martin Halvey |
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| Dr Perla Innocenti |
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| Dr Clemens Kupke |
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| Prof Roma Maguire | Her research interests include Digital Health, Remote Patient Monitoring, Supportive Care, Predictive Modelling and Values Based Medicine. Her research spans several clinical specialities including cancer, dementia, cardiac and respiratory disease and palliative/end of life care. She has led several multi-site supportive care and digital health studies in the UK and across Europe. |
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| Dr Conor Mcbride |
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| Dr Lisa Mccann |
Person-centered digital health interventions and working with people across the life course. Her particular interest areas include families with children with complex health care needs, teenagers and young adults diagnosed with cancer, adults diagnosed with cancer, remote patient monitoring, patient reported outcomes and collaborative / co-design approaches to digital intervention design and development. |
Factors Influencing the Advancement of Digital Health Interventions for Children and Young People in Low to Middle Income Countries: The Case of South Sudan. |
| Dr Yashar Moshfeghi |
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| Dr Karen Renaud | Human-Centred Security and Privacy. Employing behavioural science techniques to improve security behaviours, and in encouraging end-user privacy-preserving behaviours. | Development of an age verification mechanism using a range of desktop sensors to gather information about psychological and behavioural differences. |
| Prof Crawford Revie | The intersection of informatics and the life sciences; in particular with data-driven models of disease and host-parasite dynamics in both human and animal populations. Novel methods to collect, manage and make statistical inferences from large and heterogeneous data sets. | Many of the requirements for NLU/NLP supported tasks within e-commerce can be equally served by task-specific language models, with a smaller associated cost than those found in task-agnostic models, such as GTP-3 or T5. |
| Prof Gobinda Chowdhury | Digital libraries and information services trying to understand how people access and use information and data in different contexts. Recent research includes information systems and services for addressing global challenges and sustainable development. |
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| Dr Richard Roper | Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Computer Personnel, Mental Model, Software, Evaluation. |
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| Prof Wendy Moncur | Human aspects of cybersecurity. Trust, identity, privacy, security online. Life transitions and the role of the internet - e.g. becoming a parent, traumatic events. | Improving Access to Online Accounts for Adults Living with Cognitive Impairments and their Caregivers |
| Prof Ian Ruthven | Information Seeking Theory, Interface design for Information access, User studies. Information retrieval, qualitative and quantitative research methods |
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| Dr Sotirios Terzis | Middlewear, Persuasive Computing, Application, Computing, User, Computing Environment, Contexts, Smart Environment. | Context-aware E-learning for Smart Classroom. |
| Dr Daniel Thomas | Accurate and ethical measurement of security and cybercrime. By measuring security and cybercrime we can monitor improvement, evaluate interventions and inform regulators. This reveals which techniques work and provides the missing economic incentives to improve security and reduce cybercrime. |
Measuring security. Measuring Cybercrime. Vulnerability modelling. Internet cartography. Internet policy inference. ICS honeypots. |
We research a wide range of areas including theoretical computer science, human-computer interaction, information sciences and software systems.
Our research projects are funded by a wide range of organisations including the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the Economic & Social Research Council and the European Union.
We've a thriving international community with students coming here to study from over 140 countries across the world. Find out all you need to know about studying in Glasgow at Strathclyde and hear from students about their experiences.
Our campus is based right in the very heart of Glasgow. We're in the city centre, next to the Merchant City, both of which are great locations for sightseeing, shopping and socialising alongside your studies.
We look for a first-class or upper second-class UK Honours degree, or overseas equivalent, in a computer sciences discipline from a recognised academic institution.
If English isn't your first language, you'll also need to have an IELTS score of 6.5 as proof of English proficiency.
During the application you'll be asked for the following:
By filling these details out as fully as possible, you'll avoid any delay to your application being processed by the University.
Once you've accepted our offer, we'll need you to fulfil any academic, administrative or financial conditions that we ask.
If you're applying as a UK or EU student, you'll then be issued with your registration documentation.
An ATAS (Academic Technology Approval Scheme) clearance certificate is a mandatory requirement for some postgraduate students in science, engineering and technology.
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