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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麻豆精选 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 of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Birmingham Law School
Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.
Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.
Current PhD students
鈥� Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...
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 ...
Associate Professor in Law
Programme Director, Online LLM in Energy and Environmental Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Nsoh is happy to supervise within the following broad areas:
Innovative approaches such as conservation covenants, payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsets in conservation
Biodiversity and nature conservation law
Property (land) rights, land use, land tenure and livelihoods
Forest ownership and sustainability
Regulation of natural resources
Ecosystem services
Indigenous rights
Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 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 ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Sandra is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
German Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
European Union Law
Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting an official application.
Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law
Associate Professor
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice
School of Biosciences
Dr Scott Glaberman's lab is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:
- Leveraging evolutionary principles to understand species sensitivity to chemicals
- Analysing toxicology data within a One Health framework using big data approaches
- Developing nematodes (including C. elegans) as model organisms in toxicology
- Advancing environmental monitoring of contaminants through risk-based approaches
- Reimagining risk assessment practices for environmental contaminants
Investigating evolutionary mechanisms of cancer resistance and ...
Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
* Transitional justice
* Resilience
* War and armed conflict
* Environmental impacts of war
* Posthumanism
Professor of Cerebrovascular, Exercise & Environmental Physiology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Professor Lucas has supervised numerous research Masters and PhD students in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, and Postdoctoral Fellows at UoB. As both a primary and co-supervisor Prof Lucas has 16 PhD and 13 MSc (research) completions, and currently co/supervises 10 PhD and 4 MSc (research) students. The details of his graduate student supervision and the subjects/areas of work are listed below:
Postdoctoral Fellows
2023- Dr Jun ...
Professor of Economics
Director of Research - Department of Economics
Business School
Professor Elliott is available to supervise PhD students across a broad range of topics including international and development economics and environmental and energy economics. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged and students will need to be familar with the manipulation of large data sets and econometric techniques and methods.
Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics
Any area of Environmental or Natural Resource Economics
Research Fellow
(Guest Lecturer)
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Doctoral Research supervision:
Doctoral Researcher: Juliana Antunes de Azevedo
Topic: Urban Heat and Energy Demand: Application of an urban meteorological network
This doctoral research will analyse the temporal and spatial variability 麻豆精选's UHI and its relationship with household energy consumption using high-resolution meteorological data from BUCL, MODIS and Landsat ETM+ data and Energy Consumption data.
Supervisor: Dr. Lee Chapman
Co-supervisor: Dr. Catherine L. Muller
MSc dissertation supervision (various ...
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 麻豆精选
- Liu C, Geometric control of rational cubic B-splines, 1998. University 麻豆精选.
- Zheng J, Construction of n-sided surfaces, 1998. University 麻豆精选.
- Fisher M, Point-based mathematics for computer-aided manufacture, 2001. University 麻豆精选.