Research projects for study commencing in 2025
Listed below are the research projects available for October 2025.
Informal enquiries are encouraged and should be directed to the Postgraduate Research Tutor. Please ensure you read the Guide for applicants to check whether your question has already been answered.
All the listed projects are suitable for both full-time and part-time PhD study.
Pure Mathematics
Extremal structure in graphs, supervisors: Dr Katherine Staden and Dr Robert Brignall
Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Complexity of Life: Origins, Evolution and Extinctions, supervisors: Dr Ivan Sudakow and Dr Luke Mander (School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences)
Hydrodynamics of self-propelled microswimmers in surfactant layers on a finite-depth subphase, supervisors: Dr Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider and Dr Elsen Tjhung
Lacunarity, Anisotropy and Shape Statistics of Dynamical Fractals, supervisors: Prof Michael Wilkinson and Dr Marc Pradas or Dr Katrine Rogers
Accumulation of Diverging Trajectories, supervisors: Prof Michael Wilkinson and Dr Marc Pradas
Analysing Clouds, supervisors: Prof Michael Wilkinson and Dr Marc Pradas
Statistics
A comprehensive approach to test for missing not at random, supervisors: Prof Stefanie Biedermann and Dr Karen Vines
AI and Machine Learning in Human Genetics, supervisors: Dr Kaustubh Adhikari and Dr Colette Christiansen
Reproducible and Accessible Statistical Genetics Workflows tested in Evolutionary Psychiatry, supervisors: Dr Colette Christiansen, Dr Wendi Bacon (School of Life, Health and Chemical Science) and Dr Kaustubh Adhikari
History of Mathematics
Building communities: Mathematical training and expertise in Britain, 1700–1950, supervisors: Dr Brigitte Stenhouse and Prof June Barrow-Green
Mathematics Education
Quantitative literacies outside school mathematics, supervisors: Dr Vinay Kathotia and Prof Cathy Smith
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