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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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

Professor of Law, Medicine, and Technology
Birmingham Law School
Biolaw, property in the body and biomaterials, the use of the behavioural sciences in law and policy, (bio)technologies and law.

Associate Professor in Law
Programme Director, Online LLM in Energy and Environmental Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Nsoh is happy to supervise within the following broad areas:
Innovative approaches such as conservation covenants, payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsets in conservation
Biodiversity and nature conservation law
Property (land) rights, land use, land tenure and livelihoods
Forest ownership and sustainability
Regulation of natural resources
Ecosystem services
Indigenous rights

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

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:
• Digital asset regulation
• African customary law in juridical settings
• Gender equality and sentencing
• Decolonising IP law

Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Dr Zhu considers postgraduate research proposals falling into the following areas:
- Historical and Theoretical Aspects of Copyright Law
- Legal Construction of Authorship
- Music Copyright Law
- Software Related Intellectual Property Issues

Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...

Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...
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:
• Third World Approaches to International Law
• Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
• Critical Approaches to Human Rights
• Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
• Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
• 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
Peymané Adab’s 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.