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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Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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 Callum Clark

Dr Callum Clark

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes

Callum currently takes an active role in the supervision of several PhD and Masters students within the lab.

Anyone interested in studying the molecular aspects of Staphylococcal colonisation and virulence should contact Professor Joan Geoghegan (j.geoghegan@bham.ac.uk).

Professor Janine Natalya Clark

Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law

Birmingham Law School

Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
* Transitional justice
* Resilience
* War and armed conflict
* Environmental impacts of war
* Posthumanism






Dr Julian Clark

Reader in Political Geography

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

My research focuses in two areas – developing critical understandings of the state (particularly how states materialize and exercise power, and the practices of state representation through geographies of diplomacy); and on critical governance approaches to natural resource management (particularly water, and its complex associations with global change and social-ecological and socio-technical systems). I have 15 doctoral student completions and currently supervise five PhDs.

I welcome ideas for doctoral research ...

Dr Lucy Clark

Dr Lucy Clark

Associate Professor of Materials Chemistry

School of Chemistry

Dr Clark is seeking motivated students for PhD projects in the following areas:

  • Synthesis of low-dimensional magnetic materials,
  • Characterisation of quantum materials for quantum technology applications.
Interested candidates are encouraged to get in touch with Lucy. For a full list of available current PhD research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.

Professor Thomas Justin Clark

Professor Thomas Justin Clark

Consultant Gynaecologist
Honorary Professor of Gynaecology

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Two of his research students have been awarded PhDs, three MDs and he is currently supervising two students (one PhD, one MD). One was awarded an NIHR Academic Fellowship and three became University Lecturers (two now Honorary Senior Lecturers)

Current Supervision

  • PhD - University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡, UK. Preth de Silva. Best practice in the diagnosis and treatment of endometrial pathology and miscarriage in the outpatient setting (2019 – date)
  • MD ...

Dr Harriet Clarke

Dr Harriet Clarke

Associate Professor

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Harriet currently lead-supervises research relevant to the following themes:

  • Everyday experiences of disability
  • Disabled people’s working lives

Harriet is interested in supervising work in the above domains, and also in relation to:

  • Human/non-human animal interactions and welfare/wellbeing
  • Psychotherapy and social policy

Harriet also provides co-supervisor support for qualitative and mixed-methods PhD research.

Dr Mary Clarke

Dr Mary Clarke

Teaching Fellow in Stem Cell Biology

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Mary is responsible for the supervision of multiple PhD students.

Dr David Cleary

Dr David Cleary

Assistant Professor in Microbial Genomics

Institute of Microbiology and Infection

Dr Cleary co-supervises several students working towards their PhDs and has co-supervised ten to completion.

Prospective self-funded students can find details here or are welcome to contact Dr Cleary directly. The general topic of the lab is genomic characterization of human respiratory tract pathobionts and commensals in order to

  1. determine strain diversity and epidemiology in different populations and disease backgrounds
  2. elucidate microbial community compositions,
  3. examine longitudinal genomic stability during prolonged ...

Dr Cyril Closset

Dr Cyril Closset

Royal Society University Research Fellow (Associate Professor)
Birmingham Fellow
Head of the Geometry and Mathematical Physics group

School of Mathematics

Dr Closset welcomes applications from prospective PhD candidates.

Dr Barbara Clough

Dr Barbara Clough

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Biosciences

  • MSci Biochemistry/ Biological Sciences final year project supervision
  • MSc Molecular Biotechnology/ Microbiology and Infection project supervision

Dr Robert Cluley

Dr Robert Cluley

Associate Professor

Department of Marketing

  • Marketing practice
  • Marketing organizations
  • Advertising and society
  • Technology

Professor Tom Clutton-Brock

Professor Tom Clutton-Brock

Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Birmingham Medical School

PhD, MD, MMedSci, MSc supervisor