PhD and postgraduate research opportunities in the College of Arts, Environment and Technology

Find out about expertise and teaching at the Air Quality Management Resource Centre, which undertakes a continuous and extensive programme of research around air quality and carbon management.

For further information about AQMRC research opportunities, please email AQMRC (aqmrc@uwe.ac.uk).

The current research within the Bristol Centre for Linguistics (BCL) comprises four main strands and our researchers explore a variety of disciplines of language research – from psycholinguistics to sociolinguistics, looking at the language of the past, to the here and now, investigating writing, speech and the nonverbal.

For further information about BCL postgraduate research opportunities, please contact Minna.Kirjavainen-Morgan@uwe.ac.uk.

Find out more about postgraduate opportunities at Bristol Photography Research Group, a multidisciplinary network that is dedicated to exploring a broad understanding of photographic practices and the complex role photography plays in contemporary society.

For further information about research opportunities, please email John House (john.house@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about postgraduate opportunities at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, the most comprehensive academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK. BRL is a collaborative partnership between UWE Bristol and the University of Bristol.

For further information about research opportunities, please email BRL (info@brl.ac.uk).

View all our postgraduate opportunities in the Centre for Architecture and Built Environment Research across a range of built environment themes.

For further information about CABER research opportunities, please contact Professor Lamine Mahdjoubi (Lamine.Mahdjoubi@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about the Centre for Machine Vision. Part of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), we solve real-world practical computer vision problems. Our particular excellence lies in 3D reconstruction and surface inspection.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Professor Lyndon Smith (Lyndon.Smith@uwe.ac.uk).

The Centre For Print Research (CFPR) is a unique, multidisciplinary research centre that finds creative solutions for the future of printmaking.

For further information about postgraduate research opportunities, please email cfprinfo@uwe.ac.uk.

View all our postgraduate opportunities in the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments. Join projects which are focused on creating places that are environmentally sustainable, socially just and economically competitive.

For further information about SPE research opportunities, please email Danielle Sinnett (Danielle.Sinnett@uwe.ac.uk).

View all our postgraduate opportunities in the Centre for Transport and Society across our seven strategic theme areas, from promoting low carbon travel to supporting sustainable mobility strategies.

For further information about CTS research opportunities, please email Professor Graham Parkhurst (Graham.Parkhurst@uwe.ac.uk).

View all our postgraduate opportunities in the Centre for Water, Communities and Resilience. Join established inter-disciplinary teams working on different national and international water security initiatives at UWE Bristol.

For further information about CWCR research opportunities, please email Professor Lindsey McEwen (Lindsey.McEwen@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about the Computer Science Research Centre and our research activities that cover many of the facets of 21st century computer science, from artificial intelligence to graphene sensors for Internet of Things applications.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Professor Larry Bull (Larry.Bull@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about the Creative Technologies Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research group that spans and intersects computer science and the creative arts, aiming to create and evaluate seamless interfaces between people and technology.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Dr Tom Mitchell (Tom.Mitchell@uwe.ac.uk).

The Critical Race and Culture Research Network brings together scholars, students, alumni and independent researchers who are engaged in exploring questions relating to race and culture within their discipline areas.

For further information about postgraduate research opportunities, please email Professor Shawn Sobers (shawn.sobers@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out about expertise and teaching at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, an open and collaborative network of critical thinkers and doers based at UWE Bristol who interrogate, articulate and create practical approaches to responsible technological futures.

For further information about DCRC postgraduate research opportunities, please email DCRC (dcrc@uwe.ac.uk).

The Document and Location Research Group investigates how our understanding of place is directly formed through how locations are recorded and subsequently narrated by different disciplines, and how the identity of place is created through its representation. 

For more information on postgraduate opportunities, please contact Simon Morrissey (Simon.Morrissey@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about the Engineering, Modelling and Simulation Group, which brings academics and researchers together to carry out high-quality research in key engineering fields by applying modern and advanced modelling and simulation techniques.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Professor Yufeng Yao (yufeng.yao@uwe.ac.uk).

The Global and Transnational History Group consists of historians conducting research across a broad geographic span, largely in the modern period.

For further information about postgraduate research opportunities, please email Dr Mike Richards (michael.richards@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about the Institute of Bio-Sensing Technology, which collaborates within industry and academia to develop novel bio-sensing technologies together.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Associate Professor Tim Cox (Timothy.Cox@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about the Mathematics and Statistics Research Group, which aims to deliver internationally excellent mathematics research, including real-world impact, develop research collaboration, apply its research to outstanding learning and generate income.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Dr Vadim Zverovich (Vadim.Zverovich@uwe.ac.uk).

Read more about the Moving Image Research Group, which focuses on historical, theoretical and practice-based research into film cultures, production and education.

For more information on postgraduate opportunities, please contact Dr Mark Bould (mark.bould@uwe.ac.uk) or Dr Charlotte Crofts (charlotte.crofts@uwe.ac.uk).

The Regional History Centre promotes research about the history of Britain's South Western counties and in the understanding of regionalism as a dynamic force in the shaping of the domestic and international past.

For further information about postgraduate research opportunities, please email Professor Steve Poole (steve.poole@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about Robotics Engineering And Computing for Healthcare, which researches robotics technologies, intelligent sensors and machine learning to realise person-focused innovative healthcare solutions.

For further information about research opportunities, please email Dr David Western (david.western@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about postgraduate research opportunities at the Science Communication Unit, which is internationally renowned for its diverse and innovative activities, designed to engage the public with science.

For further information about research opportunities, please email SCU (science.communication@uwe.ac.uk).

Find out more about the Unconventional Computing Group, which employs complex dynamics in physical, chemical and biological media to design novel computational techniques, architectures and working prototypes of non-linear media-based computers.

For further information about Unconventional Computing Group research opportunities, please email Professor Andrew Adamatzky (andrew.adamatzky@uwe.ac.uk).

The Visual Culture Research Group is a group of cross-disciplinary art and design practitioners, historians and theorists interested in visuality and visual culture.

For further information about postgraduate research opportunities, please email Dr Jenny Rintoul (jenny2.rintoul@uwe.ac.uk.

The WHO Collaborating Centre promotes healthy and sustainable settlements through research, knowledge exchange and publications, working closely with municipalities, planning consultancies and health authorities in the UK as well as the wider WHO European Healthy Cities network.

For further information about postgraduate research opportunities, please email Dr Michael Buser (michael.buser@uwe.ac.uk).