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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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Emeritus Professor of Vocational and Higher Education
School of Education
Current supervision
Selected successful completions
- Holly Henderson - Place, space and possible selves in the experiences of final year college-based HE students in Engand
- Claire Largen (2015) investigating ...
Reader in Ecological Education
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lesley Batty has a particular interest in the ecology of industrial pollution and has spent a lot of time working in and around old metal and coal mines. She is also highly active outside Birmingham and has published several textbooks, acts as associate editor for the Journal of Geochemical Exploration and is a key member of the British Ecological Society.
Dr Batty is happy to receive applications for PhD study ...
Research Fellow
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Dr Rachel Bayley has supervised undergraduate and MRes student projects focused on stem cells and the DNA damage response.
Associate Professor in Greek History
Head of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I would welcome research students interested in all aspects of Spartan society, Athenian politics, Alexander the Great, and the early Hellenistic period.
Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry
School of Chemistry
To discuss PhD opportunities, please contact Dr Beames: j.beames@bham.ac.uk.
Assistant Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
- PhD supervision on gravitational-wave astrophysics and data analysis
Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
鈥� Law and development (especially in Latin America)
鈥� Law and political economy
鈥� Gender, sexuality, and law
鈥� Gambling regulation
Lecturer in Accounting
Senior Personal Tutor
The Department of Accounting
Annika is interested in supervising qualitative research project (predominantly interpretive text analyses) in the areas of corporate social responsibility and reporting and corporate communication. She is interested in supervising topics such as:
鈥� Corporate communication around corporate crisis situations
鈥� Corporate communication on climate change and related topics
鈥� Corporate communication and reporting on carbon emissions
Please also refer to Annika鈥檚 publications to get an idea about her research interests ...
Assistant Professor in Space Engineering
School of Metallurgy and Materials
- Instrumentation for space surveillance
- Space surveillance and situational awareness
- Space sustainability
- Satellite ablation
Associate Professor
School Head of Education
College Academic Lead Degree Apprenticeships
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Professor of Cancer Genetics & Surgery
Deputy Director 鈥� Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Andrew has supervised multiple successful clinical and non-clinical PhD and MD projects at Birmingham. He is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Solid tumour genetics/biology
- Cancer genetics
- Molecular pathology
- Next generation sequencing techniques especially nanopore sequencing
- Cancer bioinformatics
- Faecal transplantation
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Kylie supervises laboratory-based research projects for several MSc programmes.
Kylie has supervised 1 PhD student to completion, and currently supervises 2 doctoral students.
Kylie is interested in supervising doctoral research students who are interested in the field of innate immunology in ageing, respiratory disease and pregnancy. If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Kylie Belchamber directly.