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. 

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Dr Tom Dunkley Jones

Dr Tom Dunkley Jones

Birmingham Fellow

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dr Dunkley-Jones currently supervises PhD projects on developing coccolith Sr/Ca ratios as a palaeoproductivity proxy through the Eocene/Oligocene transition and diversity and community processes in marine microplankton. He welcomes applications from potential doctoral researchers in all his areas of interest.

Dr Archie Dunn

Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology

Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies

  • Late Roman and Byzantine archaeology; archaeology of the later medieval Aegean world
  • Regional histories and economic history of the Byzantine world

Find out more - our PhD Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Professor David Dunn

Professor David Dunn

Professor in International Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

David Dunn has diverse research interests that fit largely within the areas of US foreign and security policy, strategic and security studies, and diplomacy and statecraft. He has written extensively on the use of force, transatlantic relations and summit diplomacy. He has also published on the security impact of drone technology.

Professor Hong Duong

Professor Hong Duong

Professor of Mathematics

School of Mathematics

Hong Duong has successfully supervised/mentored postdocs, PhD students, MSc students as well as summer research projects. He is keen to supervise students in a number of research directions, in particular, partial differential equations, interacting particle systems, evolutionary game theory and population dynamics. Please see his research interests and publications for more details. If you are interested in working with him, he would be happy to hear from you.

Dr Fazeelat Duran

Dr Fazeelat Duran

Assistant Professor in Applied Psychology

School of Psychology

Dr Duran is keen to hear from interested students on opportunities to undertake further research in the areas mentioned below:

  1. Trauma and mental health in the criminal justice staff.
  2. Risk and resilience factors for trauma.
  3. Intervention strategies for psychological distress.
  4. Post-traumatic growth in survivors of road traffic accidents.
  5. Neurodiversity in law enforcement officers and staff.

Honorary Professor Catherine Durose

Honorary Professor Catherine Durose

Honorary Professor of Public Policy

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Catherine is an experienced supervisor of doctoral students, and has supported many of her student to secure funded studentships.

Catherine is happy to work with prospective students to develop their research proposal, and is interested in supervising doctoral work across a range of concerns with substantive, theoretical, or methodological connections with her own research.

Current doctoral supervision:

Adriana Algarin Castillo: social accountability in Colombia (funded by Colciencias)

Matthew McKenna: blame ...







Dr Anirban Dutta

Dr Anirban Dutta

Associate Professor of Quantitative Biomedicine
Strategy Lead for Industry and Knowledge Exchange at SMQB

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Anil Kamat, Ph.D. (co-supervised with Prof. De at SUNY Buffalo, USA)

Brain behavior monitoring during laparoscopic surgical skill acquisition

Sneha Sudhakar Karanth, M.S. (co-supervised with Prof. Stachowiak at SUNY Buffalo, USA)

麻豆精选 for Integration of Neuronal Networks with Global Genome Networks by Sudhakar Karanth, Sneha, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2021, 111 pages; 28499217

Pushpinder Walia, M.S. (SUNY Buffalo, USA)

Portable Neuroimaging-Based Insights for Guiding Transcranial Electrical Stimulation ...

Phan N Duy

Phan N Duy

Doctoral Researcher

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

PhD title  Resilient Transport System for Coastal Cities to Mitigate Flooding Hazards: A Case Study in Vietnam


Supervisors  Professor Miles Tight, Dr Lee Chapman


Professor Christopher Dyer

Senior Research Fellow

Department of History

He is currently jointly supervising three PhD students.


Find out more - our PhD History  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Dr Michael Dymond

Dr Michael Dymond

Assistant Professor

School of Mathematics

Michael is offering projects suitable for PhD studies in pure mathematics and invites enquires from prospective postgraduate students.