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 David Cobley

Dr David Cobley

Associate Professor
Director of Education

International Development Department

David regularly supervises Masters level dissertations and is currently supervising two PhD students. He has examined an MPhil Thesis and a PhD thesis, both at the University of Cape Town.

Dr Peter Coe

Dr Peter Coe

Associate Professor
Director of Research Impact

Birmingham Law School

Dr Coe welcomes expressions of interest for prospective PhD students in his areas of interest, and the field of Media Law more broadly.

Professor John Kenneth Colbourne

Professor John Kenneth Colbourne

Professor, Chair of Environmental Genomics
Director, Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)

School of Biosciences

The Environmental Genomics group is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas: 

  • Molecular mechanisms of developmental plasticity & acclimation 
  • Pioneering the use of genomic signatures for environmental health protection 
  • Forecasting environmental health threats on populations using Daphnia egg bank genomics 
  • Biostatistical and computational methods of analyzing high dimensional data and gene networks 
  • Population genomics 
  • Heritable basis of condition-associated molecular responses and adaptive tolerance to stress ...

Dr Mark Colclough

Associate Professor
Director of Laboratory Learning and Teaching

School of Physics and Astronomy

  • Supervision of research PhDs in superconducting quantum devices

 

Professor Jamie Coleman

Professor Jamie Coleman

Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Education, Programme Lead Education for Health Professionals

Birmingham Medical School

Jamie has supervised 3 PhD students and one MD student to completion, and currently has one PhD student co-supervised with the School of Pharmacy. He has also supported two students with EdD (Educational Doctorates) with the School of Education.

Professor Mathew Coleman

Professor Mathew Coleman

Head of Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Professor in Tumour Cell Biology
Theme Lead for Translational Biology and Genetics

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Mathew has supervised five students to successful completion of their PhDs. His PhD students have authored papers published in Nature Chemical Biology, Molecular Cell, and Nature and have taken up post-doctoral research positions in Cambridge, Harvard, and University of California San Francisco. Mathew is currently supervising three other PhD students, and has successfully mentored a variety of MSc and undergraduate students and interns.

The Tumour Oxygenase Group always welcomes applications ...

Dr Melissa Colloff

Dr Melissa Colloff

Associate Professor in Forensic Psychology

School of Psychology

Melissa welcomes applications from first-rate graduate students wishing to pursue postgraduate research degrees on applied memory and cognition topics. Undergraduate students are also encouraged to contact Melissa directly if they are interested in contributing to research in the Applied Memory and Cognition Lab.

Dr Sophie Comer-Warner

Dr Sophie Comer-Warner

Assistant Professor and BRIDGE Fellow

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Sophie is interested in the transport, processing and fate of carbon, nitrogen and plastic pollution with a particular focus on greenhouse gas dynamics. A major research focus is understanding how aquatic biogeochemistry will be affected by future global change with consequences for meeting the UN鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goals, improving ecosystem health and protecting/improving ecosystem services for the future.

If you are interested in exploring opportunities to work with me at ...

Professor Gillian Cond茅

Professor Gillian Cond茅

Head 麻豆精选 Medical School
College Lead for Post Graduate Taught Education

Birmingham Medical School

Key research themes and doctoral supervision themes include:
  • Physician Associate: clinical audit & service improvement
  • Equality & diversity in PA education
  • The HPA axis
  • The HPG axis

Dr Andrew Coney

Dr Andrew Coney

Senior Lecturer in Physiology
Affiliated: Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Andrew currently supervises several PhD students investigating different aspects of cardiorespiratory physiology.

  • Effects of chronic intermittent hypoxia at different ages on carotid body function
  • Detection of dysfunctional breathing using structured light plethysmography
  • Angiotensin II signalling in the carotid body in physiology and pathology
  • Early markers of hypertension in young adults with a family history of hypertension
  • Ethnicity and cardiovascular disease – modulatory effects of respiratory training.

 Previous PhD students have investigated ...

Dr Sarah J Conner

Dr Sarah J Conner

Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Biology

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Supervisor and Second supervisor for PhD students

Dr Sarah J Conner

Dr Sarah J Conner

Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Biology

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Supervisor and Second supervisor for PhD students