PhD, MRes Work, employment & organisation

This four-year PhD study will address several key areas of knowledge on flow forming.

This project will evaluate and derisk a candidate HIPIMS coating in terms of hot forging a nickel-base superalloy. Performance will be benchmarked against conventional die surface treatments.

This PhD opportunity will address the impacts of environmental extremes on the economy of the US State of California. The research will explore how the structure of the California economy has changed in the past 20 years, and assess how alterations to the natural environment have impacted the way the economy operates. It will specifically address the impacts of drought on water, energy and food systems, seeking to determine where vulnerabilities are within the economy to climatic change.

A three-year Economics PhD scholarship for candidates who wish to evaluate a preventative public policy against recidivism, which consists of a one-to-one mentoring programme targeted to young men serving short sentences in prison.

This PhD project explores the experiences of hospitality workers with sexual harassment, especially by customers. The research explores the post-Covid19 environment, where concerns about socioeconomic instability and unemployment mean that employees may feel pressurised to tolerate and accept harassment by customers.

This PhD study investigates if and how corporate land grabbing, most commonly associated by new enclosures in Global South, is changing agricultural land value, use and ownership in UK and Europe as a whole. The project explores how tensions in the finance-food-labour nexus create or constrain new opportunities for working the land towards sustaining food production and meaningful livelihoods.

This study will aim to consider the perspectives of locals about slum tourism in their areas. This will include the views of local residents as well as local stakeholders, those involved in slum tourism as guides, transport operators and accommodation providers along with persons who are not directly involved.

Grand challenges of today from Covid-19 to climate change are increasingly tackled by new forms of multi-organisational arrangements, representing the ecosystems. The simultaneous occurrence of competition and cooperation is commonly observed in ecosystems and often referred to as co-opetition. This PhD research will focus on better understanding of the co-opetition in ecosystems through an in-depth qualitative study.

This project focuses on the installation process of wind turbines in offshore wind farms. The researcher is expected to develop optimization models and algorithms to identify the optimal configuration of vessel schedules to minimise installation duration and cost. Furthermore, the project aims to achieve robust installation schedules that can handle operational changes due to weather uncertainties.

The aim is to create a successful Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation and, through that, gain a better understanding of what makes a successful AI implementation in the relevant healthcare problem area.

While the digital age and its access to vast data sets has not removed the need for expert judgment, it does offer an opportunity to improve it. This project will explore and develop methods to produce uncertainty assessments, drawing on expert analogies with historical data and statistical methods. This project will be aligned with an existing research project concerning risk analysis on the future of tourism for persons with disabilities in collaboration with the University of Dalhousie.

Machine learning algorithms have attracted considerable attention for prediction and decision-making in various industries. When used for decision-making, it is vital to determine the interpretability of machine learning algorithms.

A psychological investigation of the Delphi technique as an aid to improving group judgment and decision making. The project will involve experimentation and statistical analysis of data from the experiments.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to validate mathematical and computational simulation models used for health policy analysis and decision-making. Hybrid models—that combine simulation methods such as agent-based modelling and system dynamics—use is increasing as the complexities of real-world problems mean that single simulation methods cannot address all the issues that need to be tackled. The student will develop a framework and methods to validate hybrid models.

The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde invites applications for a fully funded PhD to research sustainability transitions based on technological innovation systems and place-based entrepreneurial ecosystems. The aim is to reconcile these approaches for a more comprehensive understanding of how an ecosystem can be created that enables entrepreneurial firms to scale-up and deliver socio-economic-environmental impact.

The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde invites applications for a fully funded PhD to research how knowledge is created, shared, and used within entrepreneurial ecosystems.