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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Dr Hannah Cornwell

Dr Hannah Cornwell

Associate Professor in Ancient History

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology

I welcome proposals for supervision in any aspect of Roman History, especially political aspects of the Roman Republic and Early Principate, Imperial ideology, International Relations and diplomacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to history and material culture.

Postgraduate research projects I have supervised or am currently supervising include:

Ben Salisbury, 鈥楤efore Public Opinion: The Role of Tribunes of the Plebs in Creating, Manipulating, and Responding to Popular Sentiment in the Late Roman ...



Dr Alice Corr

Dr Alice Corr

Associate Professor in Modern Languages

Department of Modern Languages

Comparative morphosyntax, dialectology and history of (Ibero-)Romance languages, especially non-standardized or minoritized varieties.

Comparative (historical/synchronic), descriptive and/or theoretical (formal) linguistics, especially (morpho-)syntax; linguistic variation, contact and change; understudied/underresourced/endangered languages. Critical approaches to language endangerment and languages in diaspora.

Specialisms (language areas): the Romance family and its branches (Ibero-Romance, Gallo-Romance, Italo-Romance, Daco-Romance), including Balkan Romance. e.g. Spanish; Portuguese; Galician; Astur-Leonese; Ladino/Judeo-Spanish; Judeo-Romance; Mirandese; Catalan; Navarro-Aragonese; Occitan; Mozarabic/Andalusi Romance; Italian; Romanian; French; ...



Dr Benjamin Costello

Dr Benjamin Costello

Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Ben is interested in supervising students in the areas of qualitative research related to mental health, applied health research, and ethics (including applied/practical ethics). He currently supervises students on qualitative research projects.

Dr Russell Cousins

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Department of Modern Languages

I have supervised theses on Duhamel, Maupassant and French/ Hollywood cinema.


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Dr James Coverdale

Dr James Coverdale

Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Biology

School of Pharmacy

Dr Coverdale is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

  • Inorganic medicinal chemistry
  • Metalloproteomics

Development of inorganic analytical techniques

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Coverdale directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mdsgradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Professor Anthony R Cox

Professor Anthony R Cox

Head of the School of Pharmacy
Professor in Clinical Pharmacy and Drug Safety

School of Pharmacy

Anthony Cox is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

Pharmaceutical care
Clinical pharmacy
Medicines adherence
Drug safety
Pharmacovigilance





Professor Liam Cox

Professor Liam Cox

Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer
Professor in Biological Organic Chemistry

School of Chemistry

Research projects in the Cox group provide excellent training for anyone wishing to pursue a career in synthetic organic chemistry or chemical biology. 

Potential applicants interested in joining the group are encouraged to contact Professor Cox directly by email.

Dr Michael J Cox

Dr Michael J Cox

Assistant Professor Respiratory Microbiome

Institute of Microbiology and Infection

Dr Cox currently supervises or co-supervises a number of students with respiratory microbiome components to their projects. He has supervised 6 PhD students to completion, including both fundamental science based and clinical based projects. He is always interested in hearing from potential PhD students who want to explore the respiratory microbiome and its impact on disease.  You can contact Mike by email.

Dr Sophie Cox

Dr Sophie Cox

Associate Professor in Healthcare Technologies
Chair Postgraduate Student Staff Committee

School of Chemical Engineering

Dr Cox supervises a number of undergraduate, masters and PhD research students within the School of Chemical Engineering.

We are always looking for highly motivated and hardworking people to join our team.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Opportunities that arise will be advertised through the group twitter account @htibham and in prominent advertisers such as the jobs website and through the University’s webpages.

PhD and MSc Research Students

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Professor Sean Coyle

Professor of Jurisprudence

Birmingham Law School

All areas of legal and political philosophy.



Professor Leam Craig

Professor Leam Craig

Consultant Clinical Forensic Psychologist

School of Psychology

He currently acts as supervisor to four ForenPsyD trainees/PhD students and as Internal examiner.
He also acts as placement supervisor to ForenPsyD trainees.


Dr Rona Cran

Dr Rona Cran

Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Co-Director of the Centre for Global American Studies

Department of English Literature

I welcome research proposals on American poetry, New York City literature and culture (particularly the New York School, Nuyorican poetry, queer writing, and/or HIV/AIDS), collage, and other aspects of literature and culture relating to my research.