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 “legal theory”
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 ...
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...
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 Feminist Legal Studies
Head of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
I am willing to supervise research students in the following areas:
Gender, law and Religion, particularly from feminist or critical legal perspectives.
Politics of reproductive justice.
'Historical' institutional abuse.
Law, activism and social movements.
I am happy to answer email queries from prospective students before submission of an official proposal.
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 of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
鈥� Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
鈥� The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
鈥� Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
鈥� John Austin鈥檚 theory of law
鈥� Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥� Constitutional theory
鈥� Legal/political philosophy
鈥� Public law
鈥� Human rights law
鈥� Housing law
Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.
Current PhD students:
Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review
Past PhD students:
Sylvester ...
Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics
Department of Theology and Religion
I welcome proposals across Islamic Studies, especially in Islamic law and ethics, that engage the textual resources of the Islamic intellectual traditions.
Current doctoral supervision
The phenomena of Maddhab change amongst Sunni legal schools in the Mamluk period
Spiritual striving in British Muslim Shia communities
Previous doctoral supervision
The Origins of Im膩m墨 岣d墨th: A Bio-bibliographical Cross-reference Analysis
Taqi al-Din al-Subki on ijtihad and the role of the Qur鈥檃n in his ...
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥�, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:
The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...
Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:
Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law
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
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.