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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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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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Reader in Cellular Immunology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Jorge supervises doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Signalling pathways involved in the development of secondary lymphoid organs and inflammation.
- Induction of gene expression by members of theTumour Necrosis Factor Receptor family (TNF-R) and the NF-kB transcription factors during immune responses and disease.
- The role of the NF-kB transcription factors during cell transformation.
In the last few years three PhD students have successfully completed a PhD under his supervision. ...
Associate Professor for Biodiversity Modelling and Environmental Change
School of Biosciences
Potential students to postgraduate supervision should be interested in one or more points:
- Eco-evolutionary and biogeographical topics (e.g. evolutionary rescue, diversity gradients)
- Environmental change and human impacts (e.g. habitat conversion, climate change, exploitation)
- Computational work and mechanistic modelling (e.g. programming languages like R and Julia; agent-based models)
- Tropical and species-rich systems
- Range dynamics of plant and animal species
Associate Professor in Human Resource Management
Department of Management
Minjie is experienced in supervising PhD research and would consider prospective PhD supervision on the following subject areas, specifically in relation to frontline services work and emotional labour.
- Sociology of work: skills and value creation/extraction in the labour process; organisational and technological change; gender and race representations.
- Industrial relation: resistance and activism at work; labour organisation in response to deregulation, informalisation and precarity; trade unionism and the state.
- Human resource ...
Head of the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Professor of Molecular Endocrinology
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre of Membrane Proteins and Receptors (COMPARE)
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Davide Calebiro acts as primary and secondary supervisor for basic scientists and clinical research training fellows and is a supervisor in the MRC IMPACT Doctoral Training Programme.
Academic Tutor
School of Education
- Applied Educational and Child Psychology Doctorate
- MSci Psychology and Psychological Practice
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
Department of History
I would welcome research students on a wide range of issues in the history and archaeology of early medieval western Europe, especially the Vikings and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia. Research proposals on social, cultural or economic history within particular medieval regions or communities would also be possible. I have published on the writing of history in the middle ages and would be interested in supervising similar topics on medieval narratives. ...
Professor of Outcomes Methodology
NIHR Senior Investigator
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Calvert is interested in supervising doctoral researchers on the following subjects:
- Outcomes Research
- Patient reported outcomes in clinical trials or routine practice.
Current students
- Harjeet Bhachu
- Aimee Jackson
- Konrad Maruszczyk
- Harjeet Bhachu
- Ellie McDermott
Graduated students
- Samantha Cruz-Rivera
- Mohammad Tallouzi
- Nicola Anderson
- Grace Turner
- Derek Kyte
- Adrian Gheorghe
- Poorva Jain
- Helen Kirkby
- Matthew Richardson
- Puvan Tharmanathan
- Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi
- Janet Jones
- Rebecca Mercieca-Bebber (University of Sydney)
Studentships ...
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
I am interested in supervising students in the broad fields of Criminal Justice, Policing and Law and Language. Previous students have completed their doctorates on subjects such as identifying vulnerability in police custody, the history of jury trial, and incitement to commit genocide.
Associate Professor
Convenor of Masters in Public Administration and Masters in Public Administration and Development
International Development Department
He has been lead supervisor for the following PhDs (year of graduation in brackets):
- John Mwita (2004)
- Fikret Radjabov (2009)
- Alan Phelps (2010)
- Molefe Phirinyane (2011)
- Kashif Rathore (2012)
- Alexander Kalgin (2014)
- Amrit Rai (2015)
- Ourathai Yosinta (2016)
He was co-supervisor for the following
- Duncan Leitch (2014)
- Tutik Rachmawati (2015)
- Yogi Suwarno (2016)
He is currently the lead supervisor for the following PhD students:
- Sabarinath Krishnan
- Paul Lewis
- Mohammad Roudo ...
Associate Professor in Latin American History
Joint Director of the University 麻豆精选 Brazil Institute
Department of History
Brazilian History
Latin American History
U.S.-Latin American Relations
Race and Gender in the Americas
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
Professor of Ethnomusicology
Department of Music
I welcome applications from research students interested in any of the following areas: Vietnamese music; traditional music of Asia and its diasporas; music and climate change; creativity theory; musical sustainability; intangible cultural heritage; and queer ethnography.