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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Chair of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
School of Computer Science
Chris has supervised around 30 students to completion of their PhDs.

Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Dr Badenhorst is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
Regulation and function of chromatin remodelling enzymes.
Transcriptional regulation of immune cell differentiation and development

Professor of Imaging Neuroscience
School of Psychology
Professor Bagshaw currently supervises or co-supervises 5 PhD students. Prospective students are always welcome to get in touch (a.p.bagshaw@bham.ac.uk).

Assistant Professor
School of Psychology
Dr Baiasu supervises in the following areas:
- philosophy of mental health and psychiatry
- phenomenological and ethical approaches to mental health and well-being
- mental health inequalities and justice

Professor of End of Life Care
Postgraduate Research Lead
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Cara has experience in supervising at postgraduate level at both Master’s and PhD level and has supported students conducting research projects through to successful completion. She is interested in supervising projects related to:
- End of life care
- Nurse-patient relationships
- End of life care education
- Measuring quality of supportive care
- Models of Social care and end of life care
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please ...

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Areas of PhD Supervision
David is happy to supervise projects on social movements, protest movements, left parties, and the critical political economy of contemporary capitalism.

To find the PhD students supervised by Professor Baker during his career, please visit his PhD Students Document [PDF], together with links to their theses where available.

Chair of Intelligent Sensor Systems
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
PhD candidates supervised are:
- Galen Reich
- Ellis Humphries

Associate Professor in Exercise Physiology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Current students;
- Kelsey Joyce (Environmental Physiology)
- Sultan Alsalahi (Cardiovascular Regulation During Exercise)
- Emily Senior (Physical Activity as a Treatment for Sleep Apnoea)
Potential students can contact Dr Balanos by email.

Lecturer in Translation Studies
Programme Lead for the campus MA in Translation Studies
Department of Modern Languages
I am keen to supervise research projects on feminist and queer translation, audiovisual translation and translation of diaspora writing

Emeritus Professor of Judicial Administration
Birmingham Law School
- Criminal justice
- Access to justice
- Small claims procedures
- Civil enforcement procedures
- The administration of justice in courts and tribunals
- Judicial administration
Current doctoral students
Professor Baldwin is currently supervising two doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
- The comparative development of mediation
- An examination of judicial tendancies in prisoner security categorisation cases (MJur)
- An exploration of the effectiveness of local authority regulation of the taxi trade
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Professor of Engineering Design
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Examples of PhD theses supervised by Professor A A Ball
- Czerkawski A M, Fitting procedures for curves and surfaces, 1996. University 麻豆精选
- Liu C, Geometric control of rational cubic B-splines, 1998. University 麻豆精选.
- Zheng J, Construction of n-sided surfaces, 1998. University 麻豆精选.
- Fisher M, Point-based mathematics for computer-aided manufacture, 2001. University 麻豆精选.