PhD in VR Music-Making, Storytelling, and Inclusion for Asylum-Seeking Communities at Queen's University Belfast Queen's University Belfast in United Kingdom

PhD opportunities are available in Computer Science Education , Virtual Reality , and Gaming & NPCs at The University of Manchester . The post is from Gareth Henshall , Senior Lecturer of Computer Science, who is inviting prospective PhD candidates to propose their own research direction. The opportunity is especially suitable for self-directed researchers who want to work on cutting-edge topics and shape a project around their interests. Research areas: computer science education, virtual reali...

Queen Mary University of London is advertising visiting PhD opportunities in Multimodal AI and Generative AI with Dr Dimitrios Kollias. The research team is looking for 3–4 visiting PhD students to join for 6–12 months, with 12 months preferred, starting from January 2027 or shortly thereafter. The advertised research topics include talking-head / digital avatar generation , deepfake detection , generative modelling , multitask affect prediction , contextual affect recognition and generation , c...

Funded full-time PhD opportunity at the University of Huddersfield with the new NIHR Centre for Equity in Mental Health . The project focuses on digital mental health , community work , and how LOHA is working in community settings to improve emotional wellbeing and good mental health for young people and their families. The post highlights a strong interest in research that uses digital technology in a highly innovative way to support young people's mental health, with an emphasis on community ...

Fully funded PhD studentship at Abertay University in Dundee, United Kingdom , focused on AI-augmented procedural node-graph authoring for technical artists. The project explores how AI methods such as large language models , vision models , inverse procedural modelling , Bayesian optimisation , world models , and neural simulation can help draft editable procedural networks. The initial development environment is Houdini , with the aim of building a network builder that creates native node netw...

King's College London is hiring a Research Assistant for the project “Creator Pedagogy in the Platform Age: Mapping Skills, Labour, and Professional Pathways” in the Department of Digital Humanities. This opportunity is especially suitable for a PhD candidate who is eligible to work in the United Kingdom for the full duration of the appointment. The project sits at the intersection of digital humanities , media studies , communication studies , sociology , education , and platform-related resear...