RGU is committed to high quality, interdisciplinary, and internationally recognised research that impacts real-world challenges. Our research degree titles reflect the broad expertise of our academic staff, with whom you can discuss how to shape these ideas into doctoral research that reflects your interests and ambitions.

A doctoral research project is a big commitment. However, you will be highly supported by our dedicated Graduate School, with subject expertise from your supervisory team, and by a welcoming international community of over 300 doctoral students.

This course has the following research topics:

• An inter-disciplinary approach to Healthy City
• An investigation into project management skills required for sustainable buildings
• Building retrofitting
• Connecting Mind and Digital Creativity: a digital modular approach & workflow
• Creating a Digital Twin for RGU University Campus
• Digital Platform for Design for manufacture and assembly (DfMa)
• Investigating practical steps for implementing ventilation protocol in Scottish schools
• Parameters for mass customisation of housing
• Parametric Assemblies in BIM: Blockchain Integration
• Reducing embodied carbon emissions from the construction sector, through circular economy
• Scottish architectural diaspora of the North: capturing the past
• Significance of Children, City, and participatory design
• Smart Contract Tokens in Building Information Modelling
• Smart waste management in construction supply chain
• Typologies and issues of Urbanism at Borders