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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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Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...

Associate Professor in Early Modern History
Department of History
I am interested in supervising research projects on most aspects of the social, cultural and religious history of early modern England, especially in areas relating to the reformation, theology, popular religion and belief, religious practices, puritanism, parish religion, music, the material culture of the parish church, and histories of emotion and mental illness.
I have been/am currently involved in supervising MA dissertations, MRes theses and PhD theses on the following topics: ...

Associate Professor in History of Energy and Environmental Humanities
125th Anniversary Fellow
Department of History
Dr Shin welcomes enquiries about potential postgraduate projects on all aspects of energy history, environmental history and modern economic history.

Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History
Department of History
I offer postgraduate supervision in the colonial, international and global history of modern France and its empire, on empire in the twentieth century Mediterranean and in the comparative history of European empire.
I currently supervise or co-supervise several PhD students:
Gemma Jennings (Patriarchy and Poverty? A Transnational Analysis of the Social Implications of the Oil Industry between France and Algeria)
Tomoki Yamada (The League of Nations Mandates System as a ...

Lecturer in Asian History
Department of History
Previous MA thesis topics that I have co-supervised include Sino-British economic relations and a comparative study of Roman imperial cults and Japanese overseas shrines.
I welcome inquiries from students on PhD supervision on China, East Asia, and the wider world in any time period. Current PhD topics I am co-supervising include postcolonial urban architecture and memory in Hong Kong (funded by AHRC Midlands 3 Cities Consortium), and the public history ...

Associate Professor in Environment and Society
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr Day welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in her areas of interest:
environmental justice / energy justice
energy poverty
energy geography
environmental knowledges
older age, especially in relation to environmental or energy issues

Professor, Chair of Environmental Genomics
Director, Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
School of Biosciences
The Environmental Genomics group is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:
- Molecular mechanisms of developmental plasticity & acclimation
- Pioneering the use of genomic signatures for environmental health protection
- Forecasting environmental health threats on populations using Daphnia egg bank genomics
- Biostatistical and computational methods of analyzing high dimensional data and gene networks
- Population genomics
- Heritable basis of condition-associated molecular responses and adaptive tolerance to stress ...

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Past PhD students supervised by David have worked on analogue studies of the plants and insects from hay meadows (with Dr Pam Grinter) and the Palaeoentomology of estuarine deposits at Goldcliff, Gwent (with Dr Emma Tetlow).
At present, David is co-supervising the PhDs of:
Shelagh Norton - who is working on the archaeology and the past environments of the Berth Hillfort, Shropshire and other ‘marshforts’ in the British Isles.
Zena ...

Professor of Archaeology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Henry can supervise postgraduate study in the areas of later prehistory, wetland archaeology, landscape archaeology and the application of digital and spatial technologies within heritage.
He currently supervises students researching digital approaches to conflict archaeology, the landscape archaeology of European bog bodies, predictive modelling of centres of power in Bronze Age Anatolia using GIS, valuing archives in the 21st century, the landscape archaeology of Neolithic causewayed enclosures, and the archaeology ...

Professor in Carceral Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Carceral Geography
Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology
Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
- Late Roman and Byzantine archaeology; archaeology of the later medieval Aegean world
- Regional histories and economic history of the Byzantine world
Find out more - our PhD Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies page has information about doctoral research at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.
Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...
Chair of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
School of Computer Science
Chris has supervised around 30 students to completion of their PhDs.

Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Dr Badenhorst is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
Regulation and function of chromatin remodelling enzymes.
Transcriptional regulation of immune cell differentiation and development

Professor of Imaging Neuroscience
School of Psychology
Professor Bagshaw currently supervises or co-supervises 5 PhD students. Prospective students are always welcome to get in touch (a.p.bagshaw@bham.ac.uk).

Assistant Professor
School of Psychology
Dr Baiasu supervises in the following areas:
- philosophy of mental health and psychiatry
- phenomenological and ethical approaches to mental health and well-being
- mental health inequalities and justice

Professor of End of Life Care
Postgraduate Research Lead
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Cara has experience in supervising at postgraduate level at both Master’s and PhD level and has supported students conducting research projects through to successful completion. She is interested in supervising projects related to:
- End of life care
- Nurse-patient relationships
- End of life care education
- Measuring quality of supportive care
- Models of Social care and end of life care
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please ...

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Areas of PhD Supervision
David is happy to supervise projects on social movements, protest movements, left parties, and the critical political economy of contemporary capitalism.

To find the PhD students supervised by Professor Baker during his career, please visit his PhD Students Document [PDF], together with links to their theses where available.

Chair of Intelligent Sensor Systems
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
PhD candidates supervised are:
- Galen Reich
- Ellis Humphries

Associate Professor in Exercise Physiology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Current students;
- Kelsey Joyce (Environmental Physiology)
- Sultan Alsalahi (Cardiovascular Regulation During Exercise)
- Emily Senior (Physical Activity as a Treatment for Sleep Apnoea)
Potential students can contact Dr Balanos by email.

Lecturer in Translation Studies
Programme Lead for the campus MA in Translation Studies
Department of Modern Languages
I am keen to supervise research projects on feminist and queer translation, audiovisual translation and translation of diaspora writing

Emeritus Professor of Judicial Administration
Birmingham Law School
- Criminal justice
- Access to justice
- Small claims procedures
- Civil enforcement procedures
- The administration of justice in courts and tribunals
- Judicial administration
Current doctoral students
Professor Baldwin is currently supervising two doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
- The comparative development of mediation
- An examination of judicial tendancies in prisoner security categorisation cases (MJur)
- An exploration of the effectiveness of local authority regulation of the taxi trade
Find out more - ...
Professor of Engineering Design
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Examples of PhD theses supervised by Professor A A Ball
- Czerkawski A M, Fitting procedures for curves and surfaces, 1996. University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡
- Liu C, Geometric control of rational cubic B-splines, 1998. University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.
- Zheng J, Construction of n-sided surfaces, 1998. University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.
- Fisher M, Point-based mathematics for computer-aided manufacture, 2001. University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.