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.
麻豆精选 results for “health care law”
Head of the School of Social Policy and Society
Professor of Health Policy and Sociology, Health Services Management Centre
Health Services Management Centre
Nicola is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in any of the following areas:
- Preventative health care policy (especially using risk work theory)
- Sociology of health and healing (especially complementary and alternative medicine)
- Sociology of work and professions (especially embodied forms of learning, lay health workers)
- Gender and sexuality (especially around LGBTQ health inequalities)
- Sociology of the body and embodiment (especially body work theory)
- Interdisciplinary and applied health research, using qualitative methods ...
Professor of Health Care Law
Birmingham Law School
Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,
Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research
Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, 鈥楻econsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...
Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean
Birmingham Law School
Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods
Director, NIHR Research Support Service National Collaborative
Director NIHR Research Support Service Birmingham Hub and partners Keele, and Warwick
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Thomas is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following general areas:
- Determinants of cardiometabolic disease, particularly atrial fibrillation, morbidity and mortality.
- Approaches to attenuate cardiometabolic disease and associated risk factors and improve care pathways for their management.
- Health consequences of air pollution.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Thomas on the contact details above or through FindAPhD.com.
Professor Thomas has ...
Research Fellow
School of Psychology
Ben is interested in supervising students in the areas of qualitative research related to mental health, applied health research, and ethics (including applied/practical ethics). He currently supervises students on qualitative research projects.
Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
鈥� Law and development (especially in Latin America)
鈥� Law and political economy
鈥� Gender, sexuality, and law
鈥� Gambling regulation
Professor of Public Health and Primary Care
Department of Applied Health Sciences
KK has supervised over 20 doctoral students at the University 麻豆精选. Important examples of publications arising from their theses include:
Li B, Pallan M, Liu WJ, Hemming K, Frew E, Lin R, Liu W, Martin J, Zanganeh M, Hurley K, Cheng KK, Adab P. The CHIRPY DRAGON intervention in preventing obesity in Chinese primary-school--aged children: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2019 Nov 26;16(11):e1002971. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002971. (this was one of ...
Honorary Professor
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Primary Supervision
Completed
- PhD Pundir J (2016-2022) Interventions to improve fertility outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
- PhD A Hamilton (2013-2019) Views of women and healthcare professionals on lifestyle interventions in pregnancy
- PhD B Wattar - (2013-2017) - Improving health outcomes for pregnant women with metabolic risk factors
- PhD J Allotey (2014-2018) Improving the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
- PhD E Rogozinska (2014-2017) Diet and physical activity based interventions for antenatal ...
Associate Professor
Health Services Management Centre
PhD Supervision Interests
Sexual Health in children and young people
Sexual behaviours in children and young people
Evaluation of policy and programmes
Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Jonathan is currently supervising two PhD students:
- Derek Kyte (2011 – 2014; FT) The Methodological and Ethical Issues Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Clinical Trials
- Bert Vanderhaegen (2013 - 2019; PT) A Critical Reflection upon the Nature, Limits and Impact of Empirical Ethics’
Former PhD students are:
- Greg Moorlock (2009-2012; FT) An empirically informed ethical analysis of directed and conditional cadaveric organ donation. Awarded in 2012.
- Simon Jenkins ...
Reader in Cellular Immunology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Jorge supervises doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Signalling pathways involved in the development of secondary lymphoid organs and inflammation.
- Induction of gene expression by members of theTumour Necrosis Factor Receptor family (TNF-R) and the NF-kB transcription factors during immune responses and disease.
- The role of the NF-kB transcription factors during cell transformation.
In the last few years three PhD students have successfully completed a PhD under his supervision. ...
Associate Professor for Biodiversity Modelling and Environmental Change
School of Biosciences
Potential students to postgraduate supervision should be interested in one or more points:
- Eco-evolutionary and biogeographical topics (e.g. evolutionary rescue, diversity gradients)
- Environmental change and human impacts (e.g. habitat conversion, climate change, exploitation)
- Computational work and mechanistic modelling (e.g. programming languages like R and Julia; agent-based models)
- Tropical and species-rich systems
- Range dynamics of plant and animal species
Associate Professor in Human Resource Management
Department of Management
Minjie is experienced in supervising PhD research and would consider prospective PhD supervision on the following subject areas, specifically in relation to frontline services work and emotional labour.
- Sociology of work: skills and value creation/extraction in the labour process; organisational and technological change; gender and race representations.
- Industrial relation: resistance and activism at work; labour organisation in response to deregulation, informalisation and precarity; trade unionism and the state.
- Human resource ...
Head of the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Professor of Molecular Endocrinology
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre of Membrane Proteins and Receptors (COMPARE)
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Davide Calebiro acts as primary and secondary supervisor for basic scientists and clinical research training fellows and is a supervisor in the MRC IMPACT Doctoral Training Programme.
Academic Tutor
School of Education
- Applied Educational and Child Psychology Doctorate
- MSci Psychology and Psychological Practice
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
Department of History
I would welcome research students on a wide range of issues in the history and archaeology of early medieval western Europe, especially the Vikings and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia. Research proposals on social, cultural or economic history within particular medieval regions or communities would also be possible. I have published on the writing of history in the middle ages and would be interested in supervising similar topics on medieval narratives. ...
Professor of Outcomes Methodology
NIHR Senior Investigator
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Calvert is interested in supervising doctoral researchers on the following subjects:
- Outcomes Research
- Patient reported outcomes in clinical trials or routine practice.
Current students
- Harjeet Bhachu
- Aimee Jackson
- Konrad Maruszczyk
- Harjeet Bhachu
- Ellie McDermott
Graduated students
- Samantha Cruz-Rivera
- Mohammad Tallouzi
- Nicola Anderson
- Grace Turner
- Derek Kyte
- Adrian Gheorghe
- Poorva Jain
- Helen Kirkby
- Matthew Richardson
- Puvan Tharmanathan
- Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi
- Janet Jones
- Rebecca Mercieca-Bebber (University of Sydney)
Studentships ...
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
I am interested in supervising students in the broad fields of Criminal Justice, Policing and Law and Language. Previous students have completed their doctorates on subjects such as identifying vulnerability in police custody, the history of jury trial, and incitement to commit genocide.
Associate Professor
Convenor of Masters in Public Administration and Masters in Public Administration and Development
International Development Department
He has been lead supervisor for the following PhDs (year of graduation in brackets):
- John Mwita (2004)
- Fikret Radjabov (2009)
- Alan Phelps (2010)
- Molefe Phirinyane (2011)
- Kashif Rathore (2012)
- Alexander Kalgin (2014)
- Amrit Rai (2015)
- Ourathai Yosinta (2016)
He was co-supervisor for the following
- Duncan Leitch (2014)
- Tutik Rachmawati (2015)
- Yogi Suwarno (2016)
He is currently the lead supervisor for the following PhD students:
- Sabarinath Krishnan
- Paul Lewis
- Mohammad Roudo ...
Associate Professor in Latin American History
Joint Director of the University 麻豆精选 Brazil Institute
Department of History
Brazilian History
Latin American History
U.S.-Latin American Relations
Race and Gender in the Americas
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
Professor of Ethnomusicology
Department of Music
I welcome applications from research students interested in any of the following areas: Vietnamese music; traditional music of Asia and its diasporas; music and climate change; creativity theory; musical sustainability; intangible cultural heritage; and queer ethnography.