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. 

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ results for “international law”

Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor of International Law & Human Rights

Birmingham Law School

Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.

Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili

Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili

Professor of International Law

Birmingham Law School

Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
• Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
• The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
• Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
• John Austin’s theory of law
• Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law






Dr Mohd Hwaidi

Dr Mohd Hwaidi

Associate Professor
Director of LLM Programme (Dubai)

Birmingham Law School

Dr Hwaidi currently accepts PhD candidates in the following areas:
• Commercial law
• International trade law
• Law and technology
• Contract law/ tort law
• International finance and banking law
• Law and sociology
• Arbitration
• Maritime law
He has supervised PhD students in the areas of the law of blockchain, drafting arbitration clauses in commercial contracts, carriage of goods by sea and privacy law.










Professor Chris Thornhill

Professor of Law

Birmingham Law School

Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...

Dr Emma J Breeze

Assistant Professor in International Criminal Law

Birmingham Law School

International Humanitarian Law (the law of armed conflict), International Criminal Law, Transnational Criminal Law (to include cross-border crimes, such as trafficking and piracy)
International law and global legal studies (to include conflicts, transitional justice, international criminal law)




Dr Amer Tabbara

Dr Amer Tabbara

Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution

Birmingham Law School

• Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
• International Commercial Arbitration
• International Investment Law and Arbitration
• Energy Law
• Law and Technology
• AI and Law






Professor Fiona de Londras

Professor Fiona de Londras

Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence

Birmingham Law School

Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...

Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor Atina Krajewska

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



Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)

Birmingham Law School

Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.

Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.

Current PhD students
• Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...




Professor Kate Bedford

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor of Law and Political Economy

Birmingham Law School

I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation





Professor Nelson Enonchong

Professor Nelson Enonchong

Barber Professor of Law

Birmingham Law School

Contract/Commercial law
Conflict of Laws
Arbitration
Comparative Law
International Trade and Finance
Current doctoral supervision
Professor Enonchong is currently supervising four doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas

Contractual Mechanisms for Reducing Risks in Long Term Oil and Gas Agreements
The Scope of the Liability of Arbitral Institutions towards the Disputing Parties
Judicial Review of International Arbitral Awards
Balancing the demands of procedural fairness and finality in ADR in ...










Professor Rosie Harding

Professor Rosie Harding

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’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Dr Jorge Caamaňo

Dr Jorge Caamaňo

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. ...

Dr Juliano Sarmento Cabral

Dr Juliano Sarmento Cabral

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

Dr Minjie Cai

Dr Minjie Cai

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 ...

Professor Davide Calebiro

Professor Davide Calebiro

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.

Dr. Katie Callicott

Dr. Katie Callicott

Academic Tutor

School of Education

  • Applied Educational and Child Psychology Doctorate
  • MSci Psychology and Psychological Practice

Dr Chris Callow

Dr Chris Callow

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 Melanie Calvert

Professor Melanie Calvert

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 ...

Dr Steven Cammiss

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.

Dr Adrian Campbell

Dr Adrian Campbell

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 ...

Dr Courtney J. Campbell

Dr Courtney J. Campbell

Associate Professor in Latin American History
Joint Director of the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ Brazil Institute

Department of History

Brazilian History
Latin American History
U.S.-Latin American Relations
Race and Gender in the Americas


Dr Meghan Campbell

Dr Meghan Campbell

Reader in International Human Rights Law

Birmingham Law School

Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights


Professor Alexander M. Cannon

Professor Alexander M. Cannon

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.