The Health Data Science research group welcomes applications for doctoral study that enhance our research themes in bioinformatics, data science, precision phenotyping, deep learning, metabolomics, and genomics.

Current doctoral projects include:

  • The feasibility and acceptability of a co-produced digital health lifestyle intervention to promote health-enhancing behaviours in midlife women
  • AI-Driven Sustainable Solutions for Food Waste
  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Breast Cancer in Underrepresented Populations
  • The role of Biophotons in cellular senescence
  • Optimising nutritional and exercise strategies to improve performance in emergency services personnel
  • Mitochondrial Function as a Tool for Assessing Function, Quality and Adulteration in Medicinal Herbal Teas
  • The Effect of Alhagi maurorum Medik on Mitochondrial Function
  • Ethnopharmacological study of South American psychotropic and medicinal plants: An opportunity for therapeutic drug discovery and development for use in Western healthcare
  • Healing the healer: Understanding doctors’ nutrition consumption, mood and emotions during shift work and embedding evidence-based nutrition and physical activity guidance into the NHS to improve doctors’ health and wellbeing