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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 Race, Education and Social Justice
School of Education
Coloniality
Decoloniality
Epistemic injustice
Epistemic justice
Critical pedagogy
Critical education
Philosophies of race
Phenomenologies of race
Curricula decolonisation
Critical consciousness
Participatory research methodologies

Professor of Trauma Neurosurgery
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Tony Belli directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.

Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Charlotte is happy to supervise doctoral students for projects focusing on family law, especially those concerning adult relationships.

Associate Professor
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Currently students
- 1 MSc by Research in Immunology and Immunotherapy student
- 3 PhD in Immunology and Immunotherapy students

Reader (Associate Professor) in Organic Geochemistry
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
James Bendle uses molecular biomarkers to study modern and past environmental processes and conditions. Organic carbon compounds are ubiquitous, abundant and sometimes overlooked components of oceans, lakes, sedimentary rocks and even atmospheric aerosols. Directly, or indirectly, they fuel all biogeochemical processes. As a paleoclimatologist, trained in molecular biogeochemistry, Dr Bendle is interested in the source, structure, and distribution of such naturally occurring compounds (biomarkers). His research is focused on the ...

Professor of Mathematical Analysis
School of Mathematics
Jonathan is interested in supervising doctoral research students in all aspects of Euclidean Harmonic Analysis.

Professor of Social Policy
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Matt welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students wishing to study topics related to his research interests.
He is particularly interested in working with students who would like to use quantitative methodologies to explore topics in social care, social diversity and intergroup relations, and prosocial behaviour.
Current PhD students
Unaysah Mogra, (2019-present). ‘Does school and neighbourhood diversity impact intergroup relations and social cohesion among youths?’ ESRC 1+3 Studentship
Kalim Ahmed, (2020-present) ...

Associate Professor of Pyschology
Clinical Lead – Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (High Intensity Workers)
School of Psychology
Richard is not currently available to take on PhD supervision.

Associate Professor and Programme lead for Inclusion and Special Education Needs
Dubai Campus
Currently supervising PhD candidates

Assistant Professor & Interim MBA Director
Dubai Campus
Postgraduate students (MSc/PhD) seeking supervision in the following areas can contact Dr Benuyenah:
- Labour markets & Deadweight loss of managerial decisions
- Ontology of cross-cultural conflict and performance
- Coaching and mentoring
- Applications of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)
- Evidence-based recruitment and selection practices
- Critical HR theory and HR ecosystems

Reader in Epithelial Biology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Supervising MRes and PhD students

Sarah contributes to the supervision of MSc and PhD students.