Sample PGR Projects

Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences

The below projects, for PhD and MPhil study, exemplify our areas of research expertise at the University of Wolverhampton.

If you are interested in completing a research degree in the below areas, or variations of them, please copy and paste the project directly into the application.

We can then move your application ahead with that project, which will save you needing to devise or prepare a project yourself.

Applications can be made via: https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/ 

"The experience at Wolverhampton has been nothing but positive. The community of PhD students is fantastic."
Ifemu Amari-Webber - Research Student in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences: Sample PGR Projects

  • AI, Art and Authorship
  • Socially engaged art and modes of participatory practice

  • Family Business Entrepreneurship
  • Enhancing Governance through Artificial Intelligence: Ethical, Efficient, and Effective Decision-Making
  • Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development: Strategies and Applications
  • Contextualisation of Women entrepreneurship
  • Implementation of Fintech in microfinance provision to enhance women entrepreneurship
  • FDI and the performance of SMEs in developing countries
  • Role of Artificial Intelligence in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the Tourism Industry
  • The Impact of Influencer Marketing in the Metaverse on the Tourism Industry
  • Service experience in tourism, hospitality, and retail
  • Corporate Governance and Sustainability

  • Local voices unheard? Language, memory, and the local archives: Discursive representation local industries as a place-bonded and gendered practice
  • Sustainability and the hidden costs of AI: Exploring Sustainable AI - an Arts Based Approach
  • Virtual Space as the new Green Space: Netnographies of (post)-pandemic green spaces
  • Virtual Space as the new Green Space: Place and Space in Immersive Technologies
  • Image Cultures
  • Art and Change
  • Ecocinema in the Anthropocene or Eco-apocalyptic cinema in the Anthropocene
  • Adapting human/nonhuman borders across literary and film canons
  • Local community responses to local community representation in television biopics
  • Myths of technology, myths of sustainability
  • New Hollywood in Perspective: Assessing a Golden Age
  • Alignment or Antagonism? Pop and Feminism
  • Nation, Identity, Representation: New Perspectives on British Cinema

  • Discoursal Characteristics of Consumer Reviews on Online Shopping Portals
  • Stratigraphic Streams: New Models for Geopoetic Expression
  • Speculative Fiction from the Heart of the West Midlands Imaginative Writing and Neuroscience
  • Dawley New Town and the Emergence of the Telford Dialect
  • Tracing Lexical Attrition in Black Country Dialect across Time
  • Five Nations Writing
  • Fictional Politics/Political Fictions
  • Petrofictions and the Environmental Humanities

  • ‘Our home will be broken up’: English women, family and work, 1916-1921
  • Romani History
  • Blind Veterans as Shopkeepers in Twentieth Century Britain: A Collective Biography
  • Charity Shop Histories
  • The First 70 Years of Medical Social Work: Hospital Almoners in Britain, 1895-1964
  • Various aspects of the Northern Ireland conflict and conflict resolution
  • The Midlands Miners and the strike of 1984/5
  • Popular Music and Social Change in the West Midlands 1970-1990
  • The British coal crisis of 1992

  • An investigation into the role and activities of the Police Offices created by the Middlesex Justices Act 1792
  • Offending by British Prison Officials 1853-2023: A Question of Trust and Legitimacy
  • The UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency – Divergence or Convergence amongst the adopting nations?

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