PhD opportunities

We offer PhDs across all areas of ergonomics/human factors within the Human Factors Research Group. Funding for PhDs comes from a variety of sources, including the Faculty of Engineering EPSRC Doctoral Training Account, industry or research council sponsored projects, or students who fund their own research.

Past and current topics being covered by our students include:

Development of a workload assessment toolkit
Safety critical communication in railway control
Health and Safety of Virtual Reality
Knowledge in planning, scheduling and control environments
Human error in air traffic control
Musculoskeletal injury risk in assembly tasks
Interaction design in virtual environments
Handheld technologies in rail
Design and evaluation of culturally aware vehicle navigation systems
Design of rail automation
User-centred and participatory design methods

In addition, there are opportunities to study on our new four year PhD programme as part of the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in Ubiquitous Computing for a Digital Economy. The DTC is now recruiting students for September 2012. For more information, download the recruitment advert or visit the DTC website.

If you are interested in any form of PhD research then please contact the group, or an individual supervisor in whose research area you are interested. Formal PhD applications can be made via pgapps.nottingham.ac.uk.

Human Factors Research Group

The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 9514040
fax:+44 (0) 115 8466771
email: human.factors@nottingham.ac.uk