PhD Projects
The ACRC is offering intensive 48-month, structured thematic programmes of PhDs with Integrated Study in Advanced Care.
PhD Studentships Now Open
The ACRC Academy will be based at the Biocubes, Little France.
The 2023 ACRC Academy Studentships are now open.
Application deadlines have now been extended to Friday 3 March 2023.
It is essential to read the How to Apply section of our website before you apply: View Website
Available PhD projects are listed below.
You can also view available projects through FindAPhD: FindAPhD : ACRC Academy at University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
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| Automatic Affective Behaviour Monitoring through audio-visual information while preserving user's privacy | Dr Saturnino Luz: s.luz@ed.ac.uk |
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| Multimorbidity as an index condition for clinical trials, meta-analyses and clinical guidelines - is a paradigm shift needed? |
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Dr Alex Todhunter-Brown: alex.todhunterbrown@gcu.ac.uk |
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| Sleep and delirium - towards a multicomponent intervention to improve sleep on acute medicine of elderly wards |
Prof Gillian Mead: Gillian.E.Mead@ed.ac.uk |
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| Sans everything: sensory loss in the 7th age |
Prof Baljean Dhillon: Baljean.Dhillon@ed.ac.uk |
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College of Science and Engineering
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Prof Francisca Mutabi: F.Mutapi@ed.ac.uk |
Dr Geoffrey Banda: Geoffrey.Banda@ed.ac.uk |
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Prof Sotirios Tsaftaris: S.Tsaftaris@ed.ac.uk |
Prof Ewen Harrison: eharris1@ed.ac.uk Dr Larissa Pschetz: L.Pschetz@ed.ac.uk |
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| Co-Design of Smart and Data-Driven Health Monitoring Furniture for Care Applications |
Prof Tughrul Arslan: T.Arslan@ed.ac.uk |
Prof Sarah Kettley: sarah.kettley@ed.ac.uk Dr Atul Anand:atul.anand@ed.ac.uk |
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Development of Next Generation of Near-Infrared Sensors for Advanced Woundcare in Healthy Ageing |
Dr Tayebeh Ameri: tayebeh.ameri@ed.ac.uk |
Prof Till Bachmann: till.bachmann@ed.ac.uk |
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Dr Katie Overy: K.Overy@ed.ac.uk Dr Sarah Rhynas: Sarah.Rhynas@ed.ac.uk |
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| Prof Ian Underwood: Ian.Underwood@ed.ac.uk | Dr Patrick Kearns: P.Kearns@ed.ac.uk, Dr Arno Verhoeven: a.verhoeven@ed.ac.uk |
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Developing new approaches to participatory design for advanced care technologies in later life |
Prof John Vines: john.vines@ed.ac.uk | Katie Brittain: Katie.Brittain@newcastle.ac.uk |
| Prof Sohan Seth: Sohan.Seth@ed.ac.uk |
Prof Bruce Guthrie: Bruce.Guthrie@ed.ac.uk Prof Paolo Missier: paolo.missier@ncl.ac.uk |
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
| Title | Principal Supervisor | Assistant Supervisor(s) |
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Dr Sarah Rhynas: Sarah.Rhynas@ed.ac.uk |
Dr Juliet MacArthur: Juliet.MacArthur@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
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| Neighbourhood and health in later life: a mixed methods study |
Dr Sue Lewis: s.j.lewis@ed.ac.uk |
Dr Alan Marshall: Alan.Marshall@ed.ac.uk |
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Prof Heather Wilkinson: H.Wilkinson@ed.ac.uk |
Dr Tom Russ: T.C.Russ@ed.ac.uk |
| Title | Principal Supervisor | Assistant Supervisor(s) | |
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Prof Robin Williams: Robin.Williams@ed.ac.uk |
Prof Stuart Anderson: S.Anderson@ed.ac.uk Dr Kathrin Cresswell: Kathrin.Cresswell@ed.ac.uk |
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| Independence in the 'Elder Experience' |
Prof Robin Williams: Robin.Williams@ed.ac.uk |
Dr Ram Ramamoorthy: s.ramamoorthy@ed.ac.uk Dr Luciana D’Adderio: L.D-Adderio@ed.ac.uk Prof Stuart Anderson: S.Anderson@ed.ac.uk |
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Prof Stephen Osborne: Stephen.Osborne@ed.ac.uk |
Prof Jacques Fleuriot: Jacques.Fleuriot@ed.ac.uk Prof John Vines: john.vines@ed.ac.uk |