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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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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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Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...
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 Law and Society
Deputy Dean
Birmingham Law School
Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Professor of Feminist Legal Studies
Head of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
I am willing to supervise research students in the following areas:
Gender, law and Religion, particularly from feminist or critical legal perspectives.
Politics of reproductive justice.
'Historical' institutional abuse.
Law, activism and social movements.
I am happy to answer email queries from prospective students before submission of an official proposal.
Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.
Professor of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
鈥� Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
鈥� The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
鈥� Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
鈥� John Austin鈥檚 theory of law
鈥� Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥� Constitutional theory
鈥� Legal/political philosophy
鈥� Public law
鈥� Human rights law
鈥� Housing law
Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.
Current PhD students:
Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review
Past PhD students:
Sylvester ...
Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics
Department of Theology and Religion
I welcome proposals across Islamic Studies, especially in Islamic law and ethics, that engage the textual resources of the Islamic intellectual traditions.
Current doctoral supervision
The phenomena of Maddhab change amongst Sunni legal schools in the Mamluk period
Spiritual striving in British Muslim Shia communities
Previous doctoral supervision
The Origins of Im膩m墨 岣d墨th: A Bio-bibliographical Cross-reference Analysis
Taqi al-Din al-Subki on ijtihad and the role of the Qur鈥檃n in his ...
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥�, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:
The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...
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
Birmingham Law School
Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:
Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law
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
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.