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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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Associate Professor in Popular Fiction
Department of English Literature
I am keen to hear from prospective students interested in researching the following areas:
Popular romance studies, especially projects on diversity
Popular and genre fiction
Publishing
Migration and refugee fiction
Muslim women's genre writing
Cross-period and cross-disciplinary projects
Update September 2024: I am accepting new PhD students to begin no earlier than academic year 2025/26.
Assistant Professor
School of Psychology
Dr Burnett Heyes supervises postgraduate projects in the following research areas:
- Adolescent social cognitive development, including perspective-taking and social decision-making
- Social factors in adolescent and young adult wellbeing, including the relationship between social interactions and mood
- Adolescent and young adult wellbeing and emotional disorders, including self-harm and the bipolar disorder spectrum
- Experimental psychopathology research on (hypo)mania risk/treatment mechanisms
- Virtual reality interventions for adolescent issues e.g. gang involvement
Emeritus Professor of Political Science and International Studies
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Experience as external examiner/assessor at a number of universities including Amsterdam, Cambridge, Manchester, Newcastle, York, London, Lancaster and Cardiff and supervision of 15 successful PhD students at Warwick working on themes as diverse as the restructuring of the state in Argentina in the 1990s, and contingency measures for sterling under Harold Wilson in the 1960s
Reader in Latin and Early Christian Studies
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Greek and Latin linguistics
Early Christianity
Classical literature, especially later Latin
Reception of classical antiquity
Lecturer in Women, Crime and Criminology
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Emma is interested in supervising doctoral students with an interest in wrongful conviction / miscarriages of justice, prisons and prison life.
Associate Professor in Plant Physiology
School of Biosciences
If you are interested in working with Florian on the physiology of photosynthesis should contact him directly via email (f.a.busch@bham.ac.uk).
Associate Professor in Public Policy
Sonia is interested in supervising PhD research in the following areas:
- Participatory and deliberative democracy; collaborative governance
- E-participation
- Public engagement in public administration/ coproduction of public services
- Local government/ local governance; polycentric governance
She is also interested in research work using participatory methods (e.g. action research; participatory action research; coproduction; researcher in residence, etc.)
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
School of Computer Science
Accepting PhD applications in the general areas of Machine Learning (ML) Safety, Trustworthy Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human-Centred Computing, Distributed Systems, Wireless Communications, Networks, and Information Theory. See the recent projects in the Research tab.
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Head of Education for the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion
Department of Philosophy
I鈥檓 happy to supervise PG students in many areas of philosophy of mind and language, epistemology and metaphysics, and I鈥檇 like to have more PG students. More specifically, I鈥檇 be especially delighted to supervise on the following areas:
Reference
Consciousness (especially semantic and epistemic issues)
First-person knowledge
A priori knowledge
Epistemic contextualism
Objectivity, realism and anti-realism
Rule-following and the 鈥榥ormativity of meaning鈥�
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