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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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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.
Professor of Democratic Governance
School of Government
Deliberative democracy, democratic innovations, democratisation, global sociology
Associate Professor in Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Department of English Literature
I welcome enquiries about research supervision in the following areas: letter-writing and archive formation; literary fame and celebrity; the eighteenth-century novel and prose style; life-writing from the eighteenth-century to the Romantic period; textual editing; eighteenth-century satire.
Lecturer in Music
Department of Music
I welcome applications from research students interested in any of the following areas: music and meaning, popular music, jazz, film music, late eighteenth-century music and music analysis.
Associate Professor of United States History
Department of History
Dr Cutterham will consider proposals for doctoral work in topics closely related to the politics and political thought of the American revolution and the early republic. He is also open to joining supervision teams for topics connected to the Atlantic world or the British empire in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries, or for projects that address questions of class-formation and class struggle.
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Professor Cutts has supervised 9 doctoral students through to the completion of their PhDs. Four of these were ESRC funded scholarships. He currently co-supervises in an external capacity one PhD student (Tristan Hotham) from the University of Bath. (http://www.bath.ac.uk/polis/research/research-students/).
Professor Cutts is particularly keen to supervise students wishing to study political and electoral behaviour, party campaigning turnout, civic engagement, populist parties, social media and politics. He is especially ...