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 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
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...
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 ...
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.
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 of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
鈥� Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
鈥� The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
鈥� Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
鈥� John Austin鈥檚 theory of law
鈥� Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥� Constitutional theory
鈥� Legal/political philosophy
鈥� Public law
鈥� Human rights law
鈥� Housing law
Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.
Current PhD students:
Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review
Past PhD students:
Sylvester ...
Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics
Department of Theology and Religion
I welcome proposals across Islamic Studies, especially in Islamic law and ethics, that engage the textual resources of the Islamic intellectual traditions.
Current doctoral supervision
The phenomena of Maddhab change amongst Sunni legal schools in the Mamluk period
Spiritual striving in British Muslim Shia communities
Previous doctoral supervision
The Origins of Im膩m墨 岣d墨th: A Bio-bibliographical Cross-reference Analysis
Taqi al-Din al-Subki on ijtihad and the role of the Qur鈥檃n in his ...
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥�, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:
The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...
Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:
Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law
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
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.