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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Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Sciences
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Current and previous PhD Students
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Sian-Marie O’Brien
Defended thesis 2019 – "Regulation of intracellular sodium in the atria"
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Dannie Fobian
Defended thesis 2020 – "Translating the effect of rate control therapy in atrial fibrillation: from cellular response to cardiac function"
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Chris O’Shea
Defended thesis 2020 – "Developing a high-resolution optical mapping setup with integrated high-throughput analysis capabilites for dissecting molecular mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias"
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Simon Wells
Defended thesis 2020 ...
Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean
Birmingham Law School
Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, 鈥楻econsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...
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
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Birmingham Law School
Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
鈥� Digital asset regulation
鈥� African customary law in juridical settings
鈥� Gender equality and sentencing
鈥� Decolonising IP law
Professor of Feminist Legal Studies
Head of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
I am willing to supervise research students in the following areas:
Gender, law and Religion, particularly from feminist or critical legal perspectives.
Politics of reproductive justice.
'Historical' institutional abuse.
Law, activism and social movements.
I am happy to answer email queries from prospective students before submission of an official proposal.
Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.
Reader in Sustainable Energy Technologies
Head of Sustainable Energy Technology Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. AL-Dadah works currently supervises the following doctoral research projects:
- Anil Taskin (November 2020 to November 2024): Development of small-scale scroll expander for organic Rankine cycle. Sponsored by the Turkish Government.
- Andrew Makar (October 2020 to October 2024): Development of open cycle desiccant cooling system using metal organic framework adsorbent materials for air conditioning application. Sponsored by the British Council.
- Ibrahim Albaik (October 2019 to October 2023): Development and optimisation ...
Birmingham Fellow
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Migration, asylum, immigration detention, deportation, families, Article 8 rights, gender, men and masculinity, time, bureaucracies, legal courts, hostile environment
Emeritus Professor of Urban Education History
Director of the Voices of War & Peace Centre
School of Education
Ian is interested in the following research topics:
- material cultures of schooling;
- cultural diversity and race equality;
- anti-racist and refugee education;
- black history;
- museum and heritage education; the teaching of history.
He currently supervises a number of students including the following:
- Izzy Mohammed - Public archives, Representation and Integration in Post-War, Multicultural Urban Contexts: Birmingham and Manchester
- Alison Laitner - Discovering Childrens’ Voices and Experiences; Changes from family to institutional care ...
Associate Professor in Social Anthropology and African Studies
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I welcome enquiries from students interested in the anthropology of migration and diasporas; religion, particularly Pentecostalism; and kinship and care.
Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you鈥檙e interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...
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
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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.