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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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Professor of Radio Science and Systems
Past President of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
School of Engineering
Only in collaboration with other members of staff.
Associate Professor in United States History
Department of History
I am happy to discuss research projects broadly based in 19th and early 20th century United States history.
Associate Professor of Finance
The Department of Finance
Dr Nicholas Carline鈥檚 ongoing research interests are primarily focused on the efficiency of the takeover market and the interplay with corporate governance, as well as on causal inference in this and other areas of corporate finance. He is also specifically interested in issues concerning managerial risk-taking, share repurchases, accounting quality, and private firms.
His research has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, the Journal ...
Professor and Academic Lead of HWB-NMR
School of Biosciences
Teresa has supervised more than 20 PhD and master students in various areas of structural biology including RNA and protein structure, structure-based drug design, methodology development by NMR and integrative structural biology of biomolecular complexes.
Professor of Labour Economics
Department of Management
Dr Carmichael is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:
Gender, age and work
Informal care and paid employment
Economics of sport
Senior Lecturer in Psycholinguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am keen to hear from students interested in conducting research on idioms and formulaic language, as well as other aspects of phraseology, and on figurative language more generally. This includes processing and representation in first and second languages, the development of figurative competence in second language speakers, and the ways in which linguistic and cultural knowledge contribute to how people make sense of metaphorical and extended uses of words ...
Professor of Psychology in Education
School of Education
Julia Carroll is willing to consider supervising PhD students in the field of dyslexia or literacy development. She is particularly interested in:
- Longitudinal research (including secondary data analysis) focusing on the experiences of young people with literacy difficulties and dyslexia
- Improving outcomes for children and young people with literacy difficulties, particularly with a focus on morphological approaches
Assistant Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
- PhD supervision on black holes and gravitational waves physics.
Associate Professor
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mike is interested in quantifying the impacts from large magnitude explosive eruptions, such as those on food, water and energy security.
He is also interested in questions relating to magma explosivity, magmatic volatiles and overpressure using a range of approaches such as machine learning, analytical petrology and petrological experiments in the apparatus built by Mike in Oxford.
Current students:
Kyra Cutler (Oxford)
Kerys Meredew (Birmingham)
Previously supervised PhD Students:
Annika ...
Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology
School of Education
Cognitive load theory
Multimedia learning
Science education
Working memory and visuospatial processing
Embodied cognition
Gender differences
Associate Professor in Neuropsychiatry
Consultant in Behavioural Neurology
Birmingham Medical School
Supervision of MSc students (MSc in Clinical Neuropsychiatry)
Associate Professor
Department of English Literature
I welcome supervision inquiries from postgraduate students working on Old English, Anglo-Latin and comparative literature (especially poetry), and medieval animal studies.