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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Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ for supervisors below to see who you think may be a great fit for your research area. Once you have identified they are able to offer appropriate supervisory support, you can start to reach out to staff using the contact details provided on their profile. 

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Professor David Book

Professor of Energy Materials

School of Metallurgy and Materials

David is interested in supervising masters or doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Nanostructured magnesium alloys for hydrogen storage
  • Non-palladium dense metal membranes for hydrogen separation
  • In situ Raman spectroscopy on hydrogenation and rehydrogenation reactions in complex hydrides
  • Porous materials for hydrogen storage and carbon dioxide storage / separation
  • Nanostructured carbon-lithium-based materials for hydrogen storage and lithium battery electrodes
  • Hydrogen processing for the microstructural modification of transition-metal alloys
  • Development ...

Professor Lisa Bortolotti

Professor Lisa Bortolotti

Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy

I supervise postgraduate students in Philosophy of Psychology (belief, delusion, confabulation, distorted memory, rationality, cognitive biases, agency) and Philosophy of Psychiatry (classification and diagnosis, psychiatric ethics, notion of mental disorder, youth mental health).

Currently I am supervising the following students: Matt Williams, Seiara Imanova, Noorit Larsen, Eleanor Palafox-Harris, Rosa Ritunnano, and Aisha Qadoos.

To date, twenty PhD students have completed at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ under my supervision.



Dr Mattia Boscaino

Dr Mattia Boscaino

Assistant Professor

Department of Management

Dr Boscaino is supervising PGT students in Semester 2.

Dr Jos Bosch

Dr Jos Bosch

Lecturer in Exercise and Behavioural Immunology

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Jerrald Rector MSc (2010 – 2013) Psychosocial determinants of immunological ageing. Funding: Marie Curie fp7

Benjamin Curzon-Jones (2010 – 2013) The relationship between anxiety and increased falls risk in older adults (Primary supervisor Dr Mark Hollands). Funding: New Dynamics of Ageing.

Winnie Chan, MSc (2010 – 2013) Inflammation and fatigue in kidney transplant patients (co-supervision with Dr Richard Borrows). Funding: NHS West-Midlands.

Andrew McClean, MSc MD (2009 – 2012) Why ...

Dr Chandan Bose

Dr Chandan Bose

Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering

School of Metallurgy and Materials

Dr. Bose is looking to supervise PhD projects in the following areas: Unsteady Aerodynamics, Aeroelasticity, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Bio-Inspired Engineering, Vortex Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Open PhD Positions:

PhD Position 1: Modelling and simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems with variable flexibility
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/modelling-and-simulation-of-fluid-structure-interaction-problems-with-variable-flexibility/?p171518

PhD Position 2: Fluid-Structure Interaction and Gust Response of Flexible Flapping Wings
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fluid-structure-interaction-and-gust-response-of-flexible-flapping-wings/?p171519

The scholarship could be provided via the following routes:
• School/College scholarship (Home/EU students)
• CSC ...











Dr Hannah Botfield

Dr Hannah Botfield

Research Fellow

Department of Inflammation and Ageing

  • Post-graduate supervisor

Dr Karin Bottom

Dr Karin Bottom

Senior Lecturer in Public Management and Politics
Director of Teaching and Learning

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Karin welcomes the opportunity to supervise doctoral research  in areas relating to local governance, local democracy, party politics,  policy design, practitioner learning.

  • Harvey E.(2016 – ) ‘The Other Body: A Trans and Crip Theory Critique of Privacy, Privilege and Power’. (part-time; with Dr Nicola Smith, POLSIS).
  • Rudkin B. (2015 – ) ‘Dramaturgy of Political Decision making in English Local Government’.  (part-time with Stephen Jeffares, INLOGOV).

Completed

  • Dadze Arthur A. (2016) ...

Professor Gianna Bouchard

Professor Gianna Bouchard

Professor of Contemporary Performance
Deputy Head School of English, Drama and Creative Studies

Department of Drama and Theatre Arts

I am interested in supervising postgraduate projects in any aspect of performance and medicine, in live art, in the politics of identity and in contemporary performance practice.

Emeritus Professor Tony Bovaird

Emeritus Professor Tony Bovaird

Emeritus Professor of Public Management and Governance

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Tony Bovaird no longer supervises doctoral students but has recently been doctoral external examiner in Oxford University, University of Durham, University of South Wales, University College Dublin, the Free University of Amsterdam and the City University of Hong Kong.

 

Professor Howard Bowman

Professor Howard Bowman

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

School of Psychology

Professor Bowman’s PhD students are all currently at the University of Kent in Canterbury (9 altogether). See his PhD students page for more detail. He is interested in also supervising PhD students at Birmingham; enquiries should be made to bowmanh@adf.bham.ac.uk.

View a list of possible PhD topics related to his interests part way down his Kent profile page. 

Professor Simon J Bowman

Professor Simon J Bowman

Honorary Professor of Rheumatology

Department of Inflammation and Ageing

Professor Bowman has supervised a number of PhD studentships and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate medical students throughout his professional career.

Dr Sophie Boyron

Dr Sophie Boyron

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law

Current doctoral supervision:

Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:

Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation