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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麻豆精选 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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Assistant Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Department of Management
Dr Allahyari welcomes PhD candidates who are interested in engaging with the broad areas of Logistics, Optimisation, Decision Support Systems, Operations and Supply Chain Management, Blockchain Technology, and Digital Transformation.
Professor of Equity and Inclusion
School of Education
Julie is currently supervising doctoral students working on the kinaesthetic in education, curriculum and creativity, parent-teacher consultation and FE cultures.
Prospective doctoral students working in inclusion, disability and children鈥檚 rights would be particularly welcome, as would those with a focus on other aspects of education but who wish to engage with educational theory.
Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry
Birmingham Fellow
School of Chemistry
Phoebe is seeking motivated students for projects in the following areas:
- Synthesis and characterisation of new potential electrode materials for sodium- and aluminium-ion batteries
- Developing synchrotron-based methods for understanding synthesis-structure-property relationships in energy materials.
If you are interested in studying one of these subject areas, please contact Dr Allan on the contact details above, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: dr@contacts.bham.ac.uk
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Assistant Professor
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Dr Allanson is always looking for new PhD students interested in space science.
Interested students should send me a complete CV and a one-page (single sided) statement on their research interests.
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Deputy Head of the School of Social Policy and Society
Health Services Management Centre
Kerry supervises a number of postgraduate research projects and is interested in supervising PhDs that focus on the following policy and practice areas:
- social care governance
- perspectives of people using care services
- experience of illness and long-term conditions.
Kerry has methodological expertise in qualitative, mixed methods and participatory research methods
Associate Professor in Epidemiology and Women鈥檚 Health
Lead for Global Engagement in the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Current PhD students
Anna Boath
Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Targeting Weight Management Interventions in Pregnancy using Adiposity Measures Oct 2019-Oct 2022
Dyuti Coomar
Improving the prediction and prevention of gestational diabetes and its complications IPD meta-analysis Oct 2020 – Oct 2023
Birmingham Fellow
Founder and Co-Chair, University 麻豆精选 University of Sanctuary
Co-Founder and Birmingham Lead, Transatlantic Fellows Program
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Jennifer currently co-supervises the following ESRC-funded PhD students:
- Critical humanitarianism and the Community Sponsorship Programme PhD (2023) (Natasha Nicholls)
- Hospitality, hostility and home: understanding the use of hotels as precarious accommodation for asylum seekers in the UK PhD (2026) (Olivia Petie)
She is interested to take on new PhD students researching:
- Migration and refugee studies with a focus on wellbeing, gender and ageing;
- Comparative politics and social policy of migration and ...
Associate Professor of Sociology
Director of Employability for the School of Social Policy and Society
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Gëzim provides supervision for MA, MPhil and PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. Some of the topics covered by his past and current tutees include:
- negotiating the representation of Arabs in Hollywood
- role of rural TV dramas in implementing the ‘New Countryside’ policy in China
- ‘new patriotism’ of Post-1980s generation in China
- impact of globalization on the Chinese television market
- religiosity amongst Young Sikhs in India and Britain
- celebrity diplomacy
- Liberian ...
Honorary Associate Clinical Professor
Consultant Cardiologist in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD)
ACHD Echocardiography Lead, Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust, Birmingham
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
- 2021-ongoing: Group Member for UK standard setting for the European Exam in General Cardiology (EEGC)
- Regular Trust Wide West Midlands Echocardiography Teaching
- FEEL/FICE Echocardiography teaching for CT2 and ITU doctors
- Speaker at Regional, National and International meetings and conferences
Assistant Professor in Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Potential master’s level and PhD supervision interest:
- Exercise and Physical activity in non -communicable diseases (NCD`s)
- Chronic respiratory diseases
- Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation
- Lifestyle modifications – cardiometabolic
- Diabetic foot care
Associate Professor in Project Management
Department of Management
Ambi has supervised over 60 MSc and MBA dissertations and 2 PhD students to completion. His current PhD supervision interests focuses on the broad areas of: Project and energy transition; Sustainability by and for projects; Transparency and anti-corruption; Projectification and governance issues; Managing risks in a safety-critical environment; Governance of extractive industries and the intersection with livelihoods, communities and conflict risks; Optimization of construction and operation of safety-critical assets; Risk ...
Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics
School of Mathematics
Enrico is always on the lookout for funding opportunities to hire enthusiastic PhD students/Postdocs. If you would like to join the lab or if you are looking for collaborations/co-supervision, please refer to the Lab page for current job openings; for PhD opportunities, please see the Birmingham research degree pages.
Contact Enrico if you have ideas for alternative projects/funding schemes.