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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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Professor of Control Systems Engineering
School of Engineering
Roger has supervised many students to successful conclusion of their PhD studies.
Usually specific opportunities are advertised on jobs.ac.uk and findaphd.com.
He is always open to discussions with potential future students and applications for PhD studies in his research areas. If nothing is advertised, please feel free to get in touch to discuss your interests and potential opportunities.
Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Department of English Literature
I welcome applications for doctoral projects directly related to my research specialisms.
Director of the Shakespeare Institute; Professor of Shakespeare Studies
Shakespeare Institute
I supervise research students interested in: the performance and reception history of the Shakespeare canon, both within the Anglophone world and beyond; the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company; the history of amateur performance; Shakespeare鈥檚 afterlives.
Professor of Surface Engineering
Leader of Surface Engineering Research Group
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Hanshan Dong is a leading surface engineering expert in developing novel surface engineering technologies (such as S-phase surface engineering, ceramic conversion and active-screen plasma), surface engineering design and modelling, and characterisation of surface engineered materials (such as environmental nanoindentation). Professor Dong's research interests include:
Surface modification of biomedical materials (biosurface engineering)
Paraequilibrium plasma surface alloying of stainless steel, Co-Cr and Ni-based alloys
Ceramic conversion treatment of Ti-and Zr-based alloys (Ti ...
Senior Trial Manager
Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit
Lucy supervises PhD students:
- Health education and female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C): A mixed methods inquiry about prevention in Birmingham, United Kingdom (Susan Waigwa).
- Understanding the factors that perpetuate maternal health morbidities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Applying the three phase delay model as a framework for the case of obstetric fistula in Zambia (Eniya Lufumpa).
Professor of Disability and Special Educational Needs
Co-director VICTAR
School of Education
Graeme Douglas has broad research interests in the social and educational inclusion of people with vision impairment. This specifically includes: the views and circumstances of people with vision impairment; education and vision impairment; various aspects of reading/information access and vision impairment; and research methods. Central to his work is a commitment to representing disabled people鈥檚 views and opinions.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
If you are interested in working in the area of tribology, and decarbonisation technologies in the transportation, manufacturing and textile industries, please get in touch. For more details, please contact o.doustdar@bham.ac.uk
PhD and MSc by Research applicants and visiting researchers are welcome in the following areas:
Tribology, Design, Indoor Air Quality, Environmental Pollutants Control in Textiles, Additive Manufacturing (3D Printer) and transportation (Low/Zero-carbon Fuels and Advanced Propulsion Systems)
Professor of Sustainable Polymer Chemistry
School of Chemistry
We are always looking to work with highly motivated and talented scientists. Specific funded opportunities will be advertised on the Dove Group webpages and on the jobs website (among other locations) when they are available.
Details of how to join the Dove group:
Postdoctoral Researchers
Opportunities that arise will be advertised through the group twitter account (@Dove_group) and on the Dove Research Group website front page as well as ...
Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality
Department of Modern Languages
I welcome applications from PhD students in any of my current areas of interest, listed below:
Theoretical and cultural studies approaches to crime and criminality
Historical or contemporary sexuality and gender studies
Interrogations of feminist, queer, Foucauldian, psychoanalytic, and ethical thought
Identity politics and freedom of expression
Women and power, women and the right wing, women and politics
The gendering of 鈥榚xtremism鈥�.
Associate Professor in Environmental Health
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dan is interested in the monitoring and assessment of human exposure to environmental contaminants in indoor and outdoor environments. If you are interested in studying a PhD then please get in touch.
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Professor of International Legal Studies
Birmingham Law School
I am interested in supervising high quality postgraduate research projects in the following areas:
Russia鈥檚 approaches to sovereignty, international law and regional integration.
Comparative regional economic integration law; preferential trade agreements and regional blocs; authoritarian regionalism;
EU Neighbourhood Policy and enlargement; EU鈥檚 external relations; EU-Russia relations
Legal reform; Law and Development; External promotion of rule of law
Emeritus Professor Clinical Immunodiagnostics
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Mark is currently supervising the following postgraduate projects:
- Prevention not cure: the role of de-regulated ceramide and sphingolipid metabolism in driving myeloma risk
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning strategies to understand the biology of MGUS and its progression to myeloma
- In vitro culture of primary MGUS and myeloma plasma cells to understand their biology and to identify repurposed drugs that kill them