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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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Professor of Law, 125th Anniversary Chair
Birmingham Law School
Professor Ashiagbor welcomes proposals for postgraduate research in the areas of labour and equality law; EU law and regional integration; law and development; race and colonialism; and research adopting socio-legal or ‘law and humanities’ approaches to law.

Associate Professor in International Economic Law
Birmingham Law School
Henok is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
International trade law
International investment law
Regional economic integration in Africa
Global energy transition governance

Academic Clinical Lecturer
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Mo supervises clinical and non-clinical postgraduate and undergraduate students. He would be happy to support further doctoral fellows in:
- T-cell immunology
- Cellular therapy GMP manufacture
- Solid organ transplantation
- Bioinformatics and multi-omics integration

Assistant Clinical Professor in Acute Medicine
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Cat is interested in supervising doctoral research students who are interested in research in the field of acute internal medicine, and/or in patient pathways through urgent and emergency care services.

Professor of Practice in Financial Literacy and Wellbeing (CHASM)
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Adele is interested in supervising PhD students studying financial precarity and the financial challenges facing different groups within the population.
Current Students:
- Chenyu Bao
- Carl Packman
- Sarah Usman

Associate Professor in Music
Department of Music
I would be interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
Late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Germany and Austria
Symphony and opera
Music and politics

Lecturer in Early Modern Literature
Department of English Literature
I welcome enquiries from prospective students interested in aspects of early modern literature related to my research.. My present and past doctoral students include:
Thomas Clifton, 'Forms of textual mediation in English meditative practices 1661-1678'
Caroline Curtis, 'Faber Fortunae: Autobiographical Practices of the Early Royal Society'
Michele Piscitelli, ‘An Englishman without techyng can not speake the words of an Ytalyan’: Italian language learning during the reign of Henry VIIII'
Lenhardt ...

Assistant Professor in Health Economics and Decision Modelling
Health Services Management Centre
Peter is interested in supervising students in the following areas:
- Decision analytical modelling in economic evaluation
- Health technology assessment

Research Fellow II
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Currently supervising PhD students as co-supervisor.

Assistant Professor
Lecturer in European Politics
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Vera welcomes PhD applications in the areas related to her research interests:
- human rights, cross-border transfer of values, norms and practices
- international conflict and crisis management
- international organisations, EU external action
- knowledge production in war-torn and closed political environments
- academic freedom in Europe, at-risk scholar protection, exile
- internationalization of research and higher education