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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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Director of the Bladder Cancer Research Centre
Professor in Urothelial Cancer Research
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
- Intercalated BMedSci
- MRes
- PhD

Chair in Enterprise and Economic Geography
The Department of Strategy and International Business
Research Students since 2001
2008 - Rachel Mulhall, Title – to be confirmed, ESRC
2008 - Valeria Round, Title – to be confirmed, School Scholarship
2008 - Aksel Ersoy, The Effects of Geographical Theories on Promoting Local Economic Development in Turkey, The Turkish Ministry of National Education
2006 - Sandra Begley, Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Firm Survival: Innovation and the Dynamics of Temporary Coalitions (School Scholarship)
2005 - ...

Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
School of Psychology
Current Doctoral Trainees on the ForenPsyD route:
- Marina Gallaher
- Chloe Wheeler
- Josh Cox
- Charlotte Earwalker
- Olivia Hopkins-Young
- Hannah Luckman
- Abigail Skinner

Honorary Kennedy Professor of Rheumatology
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Chris is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the role of stromal cells in inflammation.
He is particularly keen on mentoring and supporting medical doctors early in their academic careers. He sits on the College’s Integrated Clinical Academic Training committee.
PhD students supervised
Paul Bradfield 1998-2002 Post-doctoral fellow, Geneva, then founder MesenFlow Technologies, Geneva, Switzerland
Nicole Amft 1999-2002 Consultant Rheumatologist & Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
Angela Burman 2000-2003 ...

Honorary Associate Professor in Medical Education
Birmingham Medical School
Sharon has supervised PG Diploma in Education and educational research Masters students to successful completion and contributed to PhD supervision and assessment.

Lecturer
Department of Drama and Theatre Arts
Balça, Jorge (2017 completed), ‘When a Voice Is Not Enough: the existentialist opera performer as auteur’, PhD Thesis, Portsmouth, UK: University of Portsmouth. I was the second supervisor offering support on PaR methodologies and documentation.
Smith, Victoria (expected completion 2019), ‘Painting on film: An interdisciplinary and performative exploration of Stan Brakhage’s hand-painted films’. PhD Thesis, Portsmouth, UK: University of Portsmouth. I am the second supervisor offering support on embodied and ...

Associate Professor in Antimicrobial Resistance
Institute of Microbiology and Infection
Understanding and combatting antimicrobial resistance plasmids

Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Shelley does not presently supervise doctoral students.
Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature
Department of English Literature
I accept applications from students interested in late-medieval and early modern literature, particularly women's writing and material history, scribal culture and communities, the history of the book, and the early modern reception of Chaucer and Spenser.

Assistant Professor in Political Theory
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Sarah welcomes PhD students interested in pursuing projects in antiracist political theory, anticolonial and radical Black political thought, and Critical Theory.

Professor of Translational Cancer Biology
Head of Research
School of Biosciences
For a list of possible PhD projects offered by Professor Bunce www.findaphd.com/search/customlink.asp?inst=birm-Biol&supersurname=Bunce

British Heart Foundation Fellow
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
- Supervision of MPharm students