Design Engineering PhD Scholarship 24

Creating inclusive healthcare through AI driven design for mass-customised medical devices

Abstract
Due to everyone’s unique anatomy creating effective medical devices (e.g. joint implants, surgical guides) from ‘off-the-shelf’ standard sizes is challenging, often resulting in a non-optimal device being employed. Sizing of products creates unintentional demographic biases in performance due to inherent weakness in the design approach. This project will develop novel AI approaches to i) automatically analysis of patient data (e.g. biometric, medical imaging), ii) develop custom product designs and iii) part manufacture, that will deliver bespoke devices for each patient thus overcoming performance disparities across demographics.  

How to Apply 
Please contact Dr Connor Myant if you are interested in applying for this project. 

For more information on submitting a PhD application, please consult our application pages here. When you submit your application, please cite this project title in the 'how you are planning to fund your PhD' section. 

The deadline for submitting your application is 09 January 2026.