Find a PhD supervisor

Once you've identified the subject area you wish to research, you will need to find a supervisor for your project. All Doctoral Researchers are provided with a lead supervisor, who will act as the main source of academic supervisory support and research mentoring during your time as a Doctoral Researcher at the University.

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Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ for supervisors below to see who you think may be a great fit for your research area. Once you have identified they are able to offer appropriate supervisory support, you can start to reach out to staff using the contact details provided on their profile. 

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Professor Mike Adams

Professor Mike Adams

Professor of Product Engineering and Manufacturing

School of Chemical Engineering

Mike Adams undertakes postgraduate student supervision in the Engineering Doctorate scheme and EU funded projects.

Professor Nicholas Adams

Professor Nicholas Adams

Professor of Philosophical Theology

Department of Theology and Religion

I welcome enquiries from potential students in philosophical theology, especially post-Kantian thought (Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard) and its relation to C20 and C21 Christian theology (including Barth, Bonhoeffer, Tillich, von Balthasar, Pannenberg, Moltmann, Rahner, Jüngel, Tracey, Milbank), as well as key figures in the German tradition who are significant for engagements between religion and philosophy (including Bloch, Benjamin, Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas).

I also welcome enquiries in philosophical problems ...

Dr Sally Adams

Dr Sally Adams

Associate Professor
MSc Mental Health Programme Lead

School of Psychology

Current students 

Arsenis Tselengidis “Usability and validity of the WHO-FCTC self-reporting system for the implementation of Article 13 by low- and middle-income countries” Funded by a University of Bath Studentship, University of Bath

Kat Petrilli “Cannabis potency and mental health: triangulating the evidence” Funded by ESRC SWDTP –University of Bath 

Previous Students 

Craig Gunn “Cognitive Effects of Alcohol Hangover” Funded by a University of Bath Studentship  

Professor Hugh Adlington

Professor Hugh Adlington

Professor of English Literature

Department of English Literature

I am interested in supervising MA, MRes and PhD candidates in the following areas and will be pleased to respond to enquiries:

John Donne and his contemporaries
Seventeenth-century religious poetry and prose
John Milton and his contemporaries
Early modern print and manuscript culture
Applications of computational linguistics to early modern literature

Research projects currently or recently supervised or co-supervised include:

PhD, ‘Soteriology in the Writing of Edmund Spenser’
PhD, ‘Prose ...










Dr Simon Afford

Dr Simon Afford

Reader in Liver Immunopathology
Head of the Birmingham Machine Perfusion Research Group

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy

Simon is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • The role of TNF/TNFR family members in the development of chronic inflammatory and malignant liver disease.
  • Enhancement of the liver cancer patients immune system.
  • The effects of oxidative stress on liver epithelial cell biology.
  • The use of whole liver normothermic machine perfusion for assessment of donor liver viability, and preclinical studies of targeting of cellular and small molecule therapeutics. ...

Dr Georgie Agar

Dr Georgie Agar

Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Dr Agar co-supervises a number of MSci and year out placement students at the Richards Lab.

Dr Ridhi Agarwal

Medical statistician

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Ridhi is interested in supervising MSc and PhD students evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of medical tests and systematic reviews and meta-analyses of tests.

Vanshika Agarwal

Vanshika Agarwal

Research Associate

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Currently not supervising postgraduate students but open to enquiries from prospective Master's or PhD students interested in areas such as public health, child nutrition, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), non-communicable disease management, and culturally tailored health interventions.

If you are interested in collaborating or pursuing research under my guidance, please feel free to contact me via email.

Dr Ruchit Agrawal

Dr Ruchit Agrawal

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Ruchit has the experience in supervising students at the PhD, MSc, and BSc levels.

Professor Zubair Ahmed

Professor Zubair Ahmed

Professor of Neuroscience
Neuroscience and Ophthalmology Section Lead

Department of Inflammation and Ageing

  • Supervisor for MSc/MRes projects
  • Currently supervises 10 PhD Students

Dr Benedikt Ahrens

Dr Benedikt Ahrens

Birmingham Fellow

School of Computer Science

  • Semantics and type theory 

Dr Raphaël Akamavi

Dr Raphaël Akamavi

Associate Professor in Marketing

Department of Marketing

Raphaël supervised several PhD students to successful completion prior to Birmingham Business School (University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡).

Currently supervising two students in the innovation arena (University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡).