PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Business in United Kingdom

This PhD studentship investigates how the increasing replacement of human staff by artificial intelligence may create new forms of digital inequality. The project, Human contact as a costly premium: the consequences of new digital inequalities , examines what happens when access to human contact becomes a service that only some people can afford. Working across the UK and Italy, the doctoral researcher will study whether unequal access to human interaction affects people’s satisfaction, sense of...

Advanced Sustainable Design MSc is a one-year, full-time postgraduate programme at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh College of Art, based in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The programme explores how design can contribute to the sustainable development of buildings, towns, cities and countryside. Students examine the relationship between architecture, design and planning, working across scales from building components and systems to settlements and entire ...

University College London is inviting applications for fully funded PhD projects in the Infrastructure Resilience and Asset Management (iRAM) research group within the Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering. Led by Assistant Professor Manu Sasidharan, the group investigates infrastructure resilience, infrastructure asset management, risk, and transport systems. Its research is grounded in real-world data and challenges through close collaboration with national and internationa...

The University of Oxford is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Economics to undertake high-quality independent research in the broad field of business taxation . The fellow will manage grant-funded research activities under the direction of the Centre Director and work alongside senior colleagues. The role involves developing original economic research, producing policy-related outputs, contributing to collaborative projects, and participating in the wider intellectual life of the Centre....

Advanced Chemical Engineering MSc at the University of Edinburgh is a one-year, full-time postgraduate programme delivered on campus at the King’s Buildings campus through the School of Engineering. The programme focuses on advanced and multidisciplinary approaches to major global challenges in chemical engineering. Students explore carbon capture and storage, sustainable water resources, alternative energy technologies, energy storage and fuels, pharmaceutical and food-processing systems, and e...

Cardiff University is recruiting a PhD student for the project “Navigating Geopolitical Risk: Supply Chain Reconfiguration, ESG and Firm Resilience.” The research will investigate how geopolitical risks reshape global supply chains and how these changes influence firms’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and resilience. The project addresses the strategic and operational challenges organizations face as international supply networks respond to geopolitical disruption, uncerta...

This PhD project investigates how humanitarian risk pools can respond to a changing climate and make resilient financial decisions under uncertainty. Risk pools such as Start Ready, African Risk Capacity, and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility use predefined triggers, including flood forecast probabilities, to release pooled funds before or after disasters. The research will examine how climate science, data science, and decision science can be combined to improve the modelling th...

The University of Nottingham is recruiting a postdoctoral Research Associate/Fellow in Neuroethics, Policy and Governance , based in the School of Computer Science on Jubilee Campus in Nottingham. The researcher will work within the Brain Data Group and the international €4.4 million European ELEVATE NeuroAI project. The project examines best practices for studying emerging AI-enabled neural engineering technologies and responsible pathways for translating them from research into real-world orga...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in precision medicine and health inequalities at the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA) unit, University of Glasgow. The project will analyse individual participant data from major UK clinical trials to investigate how preventive and treatment strategies can be better targeted. The research aims to improve health outcomes while reducing inequalities, bringing together precision medicine, causal inference, statistics, epidemiology and health eco...