The University of Wolverhampton is the ‘University of Opportunity’, committed to developing students and staff who are entrepreneurial, eminently employable and well-connected within a research and professionally informed environment. We have invested heavily in new research leadership positions over the last two years and now want to develop a new generation of academics who share our values.

We are looking for exceptional individuals to fill a new cohort of PhD studentships in areas where the University plans to grow and develop new academic provision in the next five years. They are aimed at ambitious individuals early in a potential academic career who are determined to succeed and move swiftly into academia. Those who take these studentships will be considered for appropriate academic positions at the University upon successful completion of their doctoral studies.

Faculty of Arts

• Who guards the guardians? Ethics, media institutions and journalism in the age of hacking, Snowden, Wikileaks and the Leveson Inquiry
• Using sensory hybrid craft / design in mental health
• From non-narrative to narrative: discovering stories in minimalist art and music
• New British musical theatre in the 21st Century: an investigation of (under-) funding developments and creative processes
• Writing the Black Country: a critical and creative approach
• Representations of trauma in male protagonists of post-millennial television

Faculty of Education, Health & Wellbeing

• Resilience across the lifespan in adults with a learning disability
• Text-speak and literacy development in school children
• A longitudinal study of non-clinical delusional beliefs in adolescence
• The social impact of sport development; effective monitoring and evaluation of the outcomes of participation
• Exploring the role of food as an emotional regulation strategy among community samples: A grounded theory approach leading to the development of bespoke exercise interventions
• Physical activity and rheumatoid arthritis

Faculty of Science and Engineering

• Development of biodegradable drug delivery devices for the localised treatment of brain tumours
• Development of nano-enabled disulfiram to target non-small cell lung cancer
• A neuro-inspired medical image processing based on hardware implementation
• Preparation of novel chemical admixture derived from food waste for concrete applications
• Social media tracker
• Development of new bio-based polymeric materials for environmentally high value applications

Faculty of Social Sciences

• Business transformation to prosperous green economies
• The impact of inward foreign direct investment on the UK’s economy: a comparative approach
• Voices of War: an analysis of British Army veterans’ oral testimony and the Second World War in Europe 1944-5
• Unmanly Shirkers? Appeals against conscription and masculinity in England, 1916-1918
• The Battle for Bilston Steel: Work, Politics and Community, 1970-1980
• Probation officers’ attitudes towards balancing public protection and human rights in the risk management framework of MAPPA
• A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of prosecution approaches for finance related crimes in the UK and the US

Further information about these studentships can be found at: www.wlv.ac.uk/researchstudentships2015