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 Diamond Ashiagbor

Professor Diamond Ashiagbor

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.

Dr Henok Asmelash

Dr Henok Asmelash

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




Mr Mo Atif

Mr Mo Atif

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

Dr Cat Atkin

Dr Cat Atkin

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 Adele Atkinson

Professor Adele Atkinson

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

Dr Nicholas Attfield

Dr Nicholas Attfield

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



Dr Peter Auger

Dr Peter Auger

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'

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Dr Peter Auguste

Dr Peter Auguste

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

Dr Justin Aunger

Dr Justin Aunger

Research Fellow II

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Currently supervising PhD students as co-supervisor.

Dr Vera Axyonova

Dr Vera Axyonova

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