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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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Senior Lecturer
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Current:
Ben Cross, GCS Approximation.
Recent:
Sudheer Parwana, Triangulation and the downstream effects on engineering applications. EPSRC CASE supported. Submitted 2011.
Head of Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Professor of Translational Rheumatology
Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Versus Arthritis Chair of Rheumatology
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Dr Croft's main research interest is in the development of novel immunotherapies for patients with autoimmune rheumatic and chronic inflammatory diseases. He has a particular interest in the development of stromal cell specific targets. His clinical interests include management of both early and treatment resistant inflammatory arthritis. He is also interested in the management of rare systemic inflammatory diseases including vasculitis.
PhD opportunites are available within the Rheumatology Research Group
Assistant Professor
MSc (Pre-reg) Admissions Tutor
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Functional Fitness for Parkinson’s Disease
- Emotional Resilience in Physiotherapists
- Closing the BAME attainment gap in Physiotherapy
Sir Henry Dale Fellow
Institute of Microbiology and Infection
If you are interested in joining the group please contact Lucy directly.
Professor of Contemporary British History
Department of History
Homelessness
Non-Governmental Organisations and Social Activism
British European policy since 1945
Inter-war British foreign policy
Modern British party politics
Senior Lecturer
Department Director of MA Admissions
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
PhD Students (first supervisor)
- Christopher Haycock. Thesis title: ‘Student retention in Higher Education’. Part-time; funded by a scholarship from Coventry University. Oct. 2019 start.
- Julius Elster. Thesis title: ‘Voices of young people in Tottenham: Youth-Identity Formation, Reflexivity and Negative Representations’. Full time; funded by a Birmingham University fees and maintenance bursary. Oct. 2015 – Sept. 2019. (With Ross Abbinnett.) (Examiners: Prof. Sarah Irwin (Leeds) and Dr Harriet Clarke.)
- David Ridley. ...
Associate Professor
Deputy Admissions
School of Psychology
Students interested in conducting postgraduate research are invited to email Dr Cruse.
A full list of current and previous lab members can be found at www.damiancruse.com
Assistant Professor in the History of the Pre-modern Islamicate World
Department of History
I welcome postgraduate (doctoral and master鈥檚) students to work with me on any aspect of the history or literary culture of the pre-modern Islamicate world, especially Iran, Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire.
I have hitherto supervised master鈥檚 and doctoral students working on
Ottoman intellectual history
Ottoman religious history
Ottoman-Iranian history
Ottoman cultural history
History of Iran
Professor of Sport and Exercise Psychology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Nominated for the University 麻豆精选’s Good Supervisor Award in 2010, Jennifer has supervised 17 PGR students to completion since 2002 (14 PhD, 2 MREs, and 1 MPhil).
Recent graduates include Dr Mary who is a Research Fellows and Operations Manager of the My Strengths Training for Life™ project with St Basils. Dr Sam Cooley won the Doctoral Researcher Development Award (First Prize) in 2013 to attend two conferences in ...
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Carole is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Paediatric epidemiological and intervention studies
- Service delivery research, particularly using mixed methods
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Carole directly, or
for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
miniaturised medical therapeutic devices; miniaturised medical diagnostic devices; ingestible devices; implantable devices; wearables; biomedical microsystems, clinical translation of technology
Professor of Functional Immunity
Director of the BactiVac Network
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Adam supervises doctoral research students in the areas of adaptive immunity, vaccine function, immunomodulation and immunity to infection.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Adam Cunningham directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.