School of Computing Science

PhD Scholarships

Are you interested in pursuing a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Animal-Computer Interaction, Immersive and Ubiquitous Technologies, or Social AI at the University of Glasgow?

We are pleased to announce that several PhD scholarships are available for starting in the 2025/2026 academic year, with a final application deadline of 31 January 2025. 

We will hold an information session on 6 November at 10 am UK time, where you can learn more about the scholarships, the application process, and available research topics.

To attend, please register in advance through this page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestudents/studentshipinformation/ 

 

Supervisors and Research Areas in HCI:  

The following supervisors are accepting PhD student applications in the coming scholarship round.  

• Stephen A Brewster  

• Matthew J Chalmers 

• Mathieu Chollet 

• Xianghua (Sharon) Ding  

• Euan Freeman 

• Mary Ellen Foster  

• Tanaya Guha 

• Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas 

• Fahim Kawsar  

• Mohamed Khamis 

• Stephen Lindsay  

• Marwa Mahmoud  

• Mark McGill 

• Simone Stumpf 

• Alessandro Vinciarelli 

• Julie Williamson  

You can learn more about the supervisors via the links above and by exploring the following pages on their respective research groups: 

• Animal-Computer Interaction (led by Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas) 

• Behavioural AI  (led by Marwa Mahmoud) 

• Care Computing Group (led by Xianghua (Sharon) Ding) 

• Future Immersion Interaction Group (led by Julie Williamson) 

• MIG: Multimodal Interaction Group (led by Stephen Brewster) 

• SIRIUS: Secure and prIvacy RespectIng Ubiquitous Systems (led by Mohamed Khamis) 

• Social AI group (Alessandro Vinciarelli, Mary Ellen Foster, Tanaya Guha, Marwa Mahmoud and Mathieu Chollet)