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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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Professor in Modern History
Department of History
Listed below are the fields in which Sabine Lee is able to offer supervision of research postgraduates.
Children Born of War; Children and War
History of UN Peacekeeping
Conflict-related gender-based violence
Social consequences of war and conflict
20th century British history
20th century international relations
19th and 20th century history of science (particularly mathematics and physics)
20th German history
Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you鈥檙e interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...
Professor of Central and Eastern European History
Department of History
I am currently first supervisor for the following students: Jonathan Conde, Graham Cox, Jared Feuerstein, Owen Grey and Marta Starostina.
I am happy to supervise doctoral work in the following areas: history of modern Eastern Europe, history of nationalism, interwar history, history of the First and Second World War.
Associate Professor in International History
Department of History
Steve Morewood's research interests include the military, political and strategic history of the modern East Mediterranean region (late19th and 20th centuries). He has supervised several PhDs to a successful conclusion with some students going on to publish their dissertations in book form. Topics have included the Greek press during the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22, Turkey and the Straits in the early Cold War period and the Greek-Cypriot perspective in the ...
Assistant Professor in British History
Director, Centre for Midlands History and Cultures
Department of History
I am happy to supervise doctoral researchers on topics relating to my research specialisms, just get in touch. I would be particularly keen to hear from students who are interested in working on: memory and the commemoration of conflict; family and local memory; family history; the social history of archives; the social and cultural history of the Midlands, especially during the early modern period.
Lecturer in Modern History
Department of History
I currently supervise or co-supervise a number of MA and PhD students. Subjects in which I am interested include:
The modern history of drugs, especially with a focus on Britain.
The modern history of drugs and warfare.
The history, theory and practice of air power, particularly during the era of total war.
The military history of the two World Wars, especially from a British perspective.
Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History
Department of History
I would be delighted to hear from students intending to work on any aspect of Modern German history, as well as those with thematic interests in the histories of religion, war and memory in any European context since 1800.
Associate Professor in International Politics
Department of Political Science and International Studies
I would welcome PhD applications in areas related to my research interests below, and I would encourage potential supervisees to get in touch:
- international conflict, conflict management and resolution
- international organisations, the European Union
- state recognition
- statehood, sovereignty
- secession
- unrecognised/ de facto states
Associate Professor in Ancient History
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I welcome proposals for supervision in any aspect of Roman History, especially political aspects of the Roman Republic and Early Principate, Imperial ideology, International Relations and diplomacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to history and material culture.
Postgraduate research projects I have supervised or am currently supervising include:
Ben Salisbury, 鈥楤efore Public Opinion: The Role of Tribunes of the Plebs in Creating, Manipulating, and Responding to Popular Sentiment in the Late Roman ...
Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...
Associate Professor in the History of Warfare and Conflict
Department of History
I would welcome PhD proposals on the following topics: British colonial warfare (including war during the era of decolonisation), Counterinsurgency, and the British army 1815-1945.
Senior Lecturer in colonial and post-colonial studies
Department of Modern Languages
I am happy to offer postgraduate research supervision in the following fields:
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
British and French imperial history
Decolonisation and the End of Empire
Colonial memory
Nineteenth and Twentieth French History
I supervise or co-supervises MA dissertation students in the above mentioned areas, and perform the role of PhD supervisor for several PhD theses:
Dunya Ismael (as lead supervisor): 鈥楻etro-cultural translation: neutralising cultural capital accumulation and power ...
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.