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. 

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ results for “international law”

Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor of International Law & Human Rights

Birmingham Law School

Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.

Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili

Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili

Professor of International Law

Birmingham Law School

Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
• Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
• The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
• Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
• John Austin’s theory of law
• Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law






Dr Mohd Hwaidi

Dr Mohd Hwaidi

Associate Professor
Director of LLM Programme (Dubai)

Birmingham Law School

Dr Hwaidi currently accepts PhD candidates in the following areas:
• Commercial law
• International trade law
• Law and technology
• Contract law/ tort law
• International finance and banking law
• Law and sociology
• Arbitration
• Maritime law
He has supervised PhD students in the areas of the law of blockchain, drafting arbitration clauses in commercial contracts, carriage of goods by sea and privacy law.










Professor Chris Thornhill

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 ...

Dr Emma J Breeze

Assistant Professor in International Criminal Law

Birmingham Law School

International Humanitarian Law (the law of armed conflict), International Criminal Law, Transnational Criminal Law (to include cross-border crimes, such as trafficking and piracy)
International law and global legal studies (to include conflicts, transitional justice, international criminal law)




Dr Amer Tabbara

Dr Amer Tabbara

Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution

Birmingham Law School

• Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
• International Commercial Arbitration
• International Investment Law and Arbitration
• Energy Law
• Law and Technology
• AI and Law






Professor Fiona de Londras

Professor Fiona de Londras

Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence

Birmingham Law School

Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...

Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research

Birmingham Law School

Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law



Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

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
• Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...




Professor Kate Bedford

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor of Law and Political Economy

Birmingham Law School

I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation





Professor Nelson Enonchong

Professor Nelson Enonchong

Barber Professor of Law

Birmingham Law School

Contract/Commercial law
Conflict of Laws
Arbitration
Comparative Law
International Trade and Finance
Current doctoral supervision
Professor Enonchong is currently supervising four doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas

Contractual Mechanisms for Reducing Risks in Long Term Oil and Gas Agreements
The Scope of the Liability of Arbitral Institutions towards the Disputing Parties
Judicial Review of International Arbitral Awards
Balancing the demands of procedural fairness and finality in ADR in ...










Professor Rosie Harding

Professor Rosie Harding

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’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Professor Chris Baber

Chair of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

School of Computer Science

Chris has supervised around 30 students to completion of their PhDs.

Dr Paul Badenhorst

Dr Paul Badenhorst

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 Andrew Bagshaw

Professor Andrew Bagshaw

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).

Dr Roxana Baiasu

Dr Roxana Baiasu

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 Cara Bailey

Professor Cara Bailey

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 ...

Dr David Bailey

Dr David Bailey

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.

Emeritus Professor Chris Baker

Emeritus Professor Chris Baker

School of Engineering

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.

Professor Chris Baker

Professor Chris Baker

Chair of Intelligent Sensor Systems

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

PhD candidates supervised are:

  • Galen Reich
  • Ellis Humphries

Dr George Balanos

Dr George Balanos

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.

Dr Michela Baldo

Dr Michela Baldo

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

Professor John Baldwin

Professor John Baldwin

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 Alan Ball

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¡.