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.
麻豆精选 results for “legal education”
Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.
Associate Professor in Law (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
I am looking to supervise doctoral candidates in areas of criminal evidence, ethics (values) and legal education/mentoring in pedagogical curricula designs that enhances student learning and teacher reflection.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...
Professor of Translator Education
Head of School of Language, Culture, Art History and Music
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Department of Modern Languages
I have wide-ranging interests across the field of Translation Studies. My current PhD students are working in translation competence, translation industry requirements, ego-targeting in tourism translation, measurement of translator style using computational methods, the use of AI in legal translation and the use and translation of evaluative adjectives in tourism translation.
Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law
Current doctoral supervision:
Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation
Practitioner Tutor
School of Education
She has previously supervised the following doctoral level work: the views of men in primary school teaching; male mental health; universal design for learning in SEND; the lived experience of a visually impaired lecturer; the lived experience of a care leaver with SEND; careers advice for individuals with SEND.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Birmingham Law School
Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
鈥� Digital asset regulation
鈥� African customary law in juridical settings
鈥� Gender equality and sentencing
鈥� Decolonising IP law
Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution
Co-Deputy Head of Education (Education Review)
Birmingham Law School
dispute resolution, private international law
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Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement
Director of IRiS
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Nando welcomes proposals for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the following areas:
- Forced displacement and globalisation
- Sociology of statelessness
- Dual citizenship and the experiences of dual citizens
- The intersection between migration, rights and citizenship
- Everyday experiences of superdiversity
- Neoliberalism, globalisation and governance of human mobility
- The politics of refugee voices and silences
- Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism
- Undocumented migrants and experiences of ‘illegality’ through generations
- Child and family migration
- Transnationalism and ...
Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law
Honorary Professor of Quaker Studies
Director, Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
The Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies has around 20 MA by Research/ PhD students and is the leading centre worldwide in research into Quakerism. There is a staff team of 14 supervisors and we can supervise in most areas of Quaker studies: history, theology, philosophy, sociology, literary studies and Quaker values in education.
My own research interests lie particularly in the sociology of religion and the sociology of sects. For ...
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
He has supervised ten PhD students to completion of their theses. Three of the most recent were on Walter Benjamin and urban ruins, the influence of new media technologies on political change in the Philippines, and the concept of biopolitical production in Hardt and Negri’s Empire. He us currently supervising three doctoral theses, two of which are funded by the AHRC, and one by the Ford Foundation. Four of his ...
Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts and Law
Professor of Modern Languages
Department of Modern Languages
I have supervised a number of PhD students on a wide range of topics. I welcome applications from PhD students in any of my areas of interest, especially the following:
words/music relations (including aesthetics, translation, adaptation, and performance)
poetry and poetics (especially nineteenth-century French, and metre, accentuation, versification)
voice/performance in relation to literary texts
the role of digital media in researching texts and performances (music, theatre, readings)
My previous PhD ...
Associate Professor in Persistent Organic Pollutants / Emerging Contaminants
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr Abdallah welcomes e-mail enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in his areas of interest.
Abdallah has supervised 16 PhD students to the successful completion of their PhD degree at Birmingham. Currently, he is supervising 10 PhD students in GEES and Biosciences.
Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Head of Quality Assurance
Dubai Campus
Dr Abdel-Wahab has the experience of supervising students at PhD, MSc, and BSc levels.
Dr Abdel-Wahab is interested to supervise PhD students in the area of experimental studies and numerical simulations of Advanced Materials including, but not limited to, biomaterials, bioinspired materials, and composites. If you are interested, please email him on: a.a.m.abdelwahab@bham.ac.uk.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice
Environmental Genomics Group
School of Biosciences
Dr Abdullahi welcomes inquiries from potential PhD students interested in researching the use of Daphnia and other aquatic organisms for environmental monitoring and bioremediation. Please contact him via email to discuss opportunities.
Lecturer in Organisation, Work, and Employment
Department of Management
Neve has been supervising, and is interested in supervising, research topics including:
- Human Resource Management
- Organisational Behaviour
- Trust and distrust in organisations
- Future of work, working from home, flexible working arrangements
- Culture
- Control and power
- Responsible Business
- Executive coaching
Reader in Finance
The Department of Finance
- Derivatives and risk management.
- Market behaviour
Associate Professor in Oral Biology
School of Dentistry
Dr Abu-Eid has supervised and is accepting PhD students in the following areas of research:
- The applications of digital pathology in cancer research
- Modulation of T cell function in the context of cancer immunotherapy
- Identification of biomarkers of disease progression in oral cancer
- Spatial transcriptomics and proteomics
- Microvesicles in oral cancer
Lecturer
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Dr Achilleos-Sarll is interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas: feminist and post/decolonial approaches to international relations; the Women, Peace and Security agenda; civil society and advocacy; visual global politics; feminist foreign policy.
Current Students
(Co-supervising with Dr Danielle Beswick) Scarlet Elliott-Vass, ESRC Studentship: ‘Sub State Translations: Exploring the Localisation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in Uganda’.
Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Public Health
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Peyman茅 Adab鈥檚 research interests are twofold, including behavioural epidemiology (specifically childhood obesity prevention) and chronic disease epidemiology (focusing on the epidemiology of COPD). She holds major grants in these areas from the National Institute for Health Research and, in the past, from the Medical Research Council.
Professor Adab has successfully supervised five PhD students in the last few years, who have moved on to academic careers. She currently supervises four ...
Emeritus Professor of Hepatology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
David has supervised more than 25 PhD and MD students in various areas of immunology, including inflammatory liver disease, leucocyte trafficking and immune regulation.