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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 ‘extremism’.

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.

I am interested in supervising high quality postgraduate research projects in the following areas:

Preferential trade agreements and regional blocs; Comparative regional economic integration law; Eurasian economic integration
EU Neighbourhood Policy and external relations with Eastern Europe and Eurasia; EU-Russia relations
Legal reform; Law and Development; External promotion of rule of law and good governance
Comparative Corporate Governance

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

Students interested in working with Dr Drummond should contact her directly by emailing r.drummond@bham.ac.uk

Mr Drury currently has openings for self-funded PhD students in the areas of:

• the functionally univentricular heart, including Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and the Fontan circulation
• organ protection during paediatric cardiac surgery, including myocardial and neuroprotection

 Please email n.e.drury@bham.ac.uk

Barry is an experienced PhD supervisor and examiner. He has been involved in the successful completion and examination of in excess of 40 PhD students. Barry’s interest in doctoral training has seen him develop novel approaches to doctoral education including the development of professional doctorates and doctoral training programmes relevant to sport and exercise science. Barry has particular experience in supervising individuals who are embedded in high performance sport as ...

Jing is interested in supervising postgraduate research in the areas of Corporate Finance and Sustainable Finance. Currently, she works as the second supervisor for one PhD student.

Jo would be interested in supervising students in the following areas:

• Social mobility and access to the elite professions
• Extended working lives and older women’s experiences of work
• Career transitions and downshifting

Niharika currently supervises doctoral researchers working on the following projects:

• Gut microbiome dysbiosis and immunesenescence: investigating associations and potential beneficial effects of physical activity

• Unravelling the role of Bacteria outer membrane vesicles in driving features of B cell Immunesenescence.

• Pneumonia after major trauma: clinical diagnosis, predictive biomarkers and long-term outcomes.

• Exploration of pro-inflammatory and injury biomarkers, acute brain injury and long-term neurocognitive dysfunction after trauma.

For researchers who are considering ...

Dr Dumitriu is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

• Dissecting immune mechanisms in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease to identify novel actionable targets for plaque stabilisation
• Characterisation of immune-pathogenesis in atrial fibrillation to design disease-mechanism based immunotherapies
• Drivers of cardiovascular risk in chronic immune mediated inflammatory diseases

Nick’s areas of research interest are:

• Pharmaceutical Care
• Clinical Pharmacy
• Medicines Adherence