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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 Indigenous and Environmental History
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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 Early Modern History
Department of History
I am interested in supervising research projects on most aspects of the social, cultural and religious history of early modern England, especially in areas relating to the reformation, theology, popular religion and belief, religious practices, puritanism, parish religion, music, the material culture of the parish church, and histories of emotion and mental illness.
I have been/am currently involved in supervising MA dissertations, MRes theses and PhD theses on the following topics: ...

Associate Professor in History of Energy and Environmental Humanities
125th Anniversary Fellow
Department of History
Dr Shin welcomes enquiries about potential postgraduate projects on all aspects of energy history, environmental history and modern economic history.

Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History
Department of History
I offer postgraduate supervision in the colonial, international and global history of modern France and its empire, on empire in the twentieth century Mediterranean and in the comparative history of European empire.
I currently supervise or co-supervise several PhD students:
Gemma Jennings (Patriarchy and Poverty? A Transnational Analysis of the Social Implications of the Oil Industry between France and Algeria)
Tomoki Yamada (The League of Nations Mandates System as a ...

Lecturer in Asian History
Department of History
Previous MA thesis topics that I have co-supervised include Sino-British economic relations and a comparative study of Roman imperial cults and Japanese overseas shrines.
I welcome inquiries from students on PhD supervision on China, East Asia, and the wider world in any time period. Current PhD topics I am co-supervising include postcolonial urban architecture and memory in Hong Kong (funded by AHRC Midlands 3 Cities Consortium), and the public history ...

Associate Professor in Environment and Society
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr Day welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in her areas of interest:
environmental justice / energy justice
energy poverty
energy geography
environmental knowledges
older age, especially in relation to environmental or energy issues

Professor, Chair of Environmental Genomics
Director, Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
School of Biosciences
The Environmental Genomics group is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:
- Molecular mechanisms of developmental plasticity & acclimation
- Pioneering the use of genomic signatures for environmental health protection
- Forecasting environmental health threats on populations using Daphnia egg bank genomics
- Biostatistical and computational methods of analyzing high dimensional data and gene networks
- Population genomics
- Heritable basis of condition-associated molecular responses and adaptive tolerance to stress ...

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Past PhD students supervised by David have worked on analogue studies of the plants and insects from hay meadows (with Dr Pam Grinter) and the Palaeoentomology of estuarine deposits at Goldcliff, Gwent (with Dr Emma Tetlow).
At present, David is co-supervising the PhDs of:
Shelagh Norton - who is working on the archaeology and the past environments of the Berth Hillfort, Shropshire and other ‘marshforts’ in the British Isles.
Zena ...

Professor of Archaeology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Henry can supervise postgraduate study in the areas of later prehistory, wetland archaeology, landscape archaeology and the application of digital and spatial technologies within heritage.
He currently supervises students researching digital approaches to conflict archaeology, the landscape archaeology of European bog bodies, predictive modelling of centres of power in Bronze Age Anatolia using GIS, valuing archives in the 21st century, the landscape archaeology of Neolithic causewayed enclosures, and the archaeology ...

Professor in Carceral Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Carceral Geography
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 Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.
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 of Philosophy of Education
College of Social Sciences Director of Postgraduate Research
School of Education
Laura D'Olimpio supervises postgraduate research students working in the fields of philosophy and philosophy of education.
She has particular expertise in the following areas:
- Moral education
- Moral philosophy and applied ethics
- Aesthetics; particularly aesthetics and ethics
- Philosophy in schools
- Media, mass art, technology and digital literacy
- Philosophy of film and literature
- Virtue ethics and character education
- Public philosophy

Honorary Professor in Behavioural Medicine
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Amanda currently supervises several PhDs in the area of physical activity and health and weight management.

Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Sarah Damery was initially part of the cancer research team within the Department of Primary Care Clinical Sciences and worked on a number of projects centred on cancer and chronic disease early diagnosis and screening uptake. Since March 2014 she has been part of the Chronic Diseases theme within the West Midlands CLAHRC (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care). She is currently working on several projects evaluating ...

Associate Professor
125th Anniversary Fellow in Ceramic Science and Engineering
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Dr Dancer is happy to consider supervision of projects with a focus on processing of ceramic-based materials. Past PhD supervision includes projects focused on ceramic processing and characterisation for applications in solid state batteries, microwave communication devices, and thermal and structural components. Many projects have been in collaboration with industrial partners including Lucideon, Carnot Engines, and Nikalyte.
Future PhD opportunities will be advertised via findaphd.com. Students interested in PhD ...

Honorary Professor of Quaker Studies
Director, Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
The Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies has around 20 MA by Research/ PhD students and is the leading centre worldwide in research into Quakerism. There is a staff team of 14 supervisors and we can supervise in most areas of Quaker studies: history, theology, philosophy, sociology, literary studies and Quaker values in education.
My own research interests lie particularly in the sociology of religion and the sociology of sects. For ...

Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Translation Studies
Language Co-ordinator for Arabic
Department of Modern Languages
In collaboration with Dr Benedetta Rossi, West African Studies, we have been successful in getting a PhD scholarship to work on Arabic Sources for West African History, West African Manuscripts in collaboration with the British Library.
I am currently supervising the following postgraduates:
Lead supervisor for Muman Saleh
Lead supervisor for Waleed Alsubhi
Lead supervisor for Farah Nadia Harun
Lead supervisor for Marwan Ismail
Lead supervisor for Sarah Shubaily
Lead ...

Honorary Professorship
School of Dentistry
Successfully supervised 5 MPhil and 19 PhD students (all in Hong Kong)

Associate Professor in International Relations of the Middle East
Department of Political Science and International Studies
May is interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
- IR of the Middle East
- Foreign policies of Middle Eastern states
- Identity politics in the Middle East
- Security policies in the Middle East

Professor of Global Politics and Sustainable Development
International Development Department
Niheer currently works with the following doctoral candidates:
- Jasmine Burnley
- Emi Nishihata
- Giulio Di Pinto

Associate Professor in Practical Theology
Department of Theology and Religion
I welcome enquiries from potential students in the areas of practical theology and political theology, and I have a particular speciality in hermeneutics and the work of Paul Ricoeur.
I am especially keen to discuss proposals for the professional doctorate: a programme designed for projects investigating areas of professional practice theologically, including education, ministry, politics, healthcare, the charity sector, and chaplaincy.

Assistant Professor in Youth Mental Health
School of Psychology
Dr. Dauvermann is interested to hear from potential MSc and PhD students to discuss projects and/or funding possibilities. Please send her an email with CV and reason(s) for interest (m.dauvermann@bham.ac.uk).

Professor of Corrosion Science
School of Metallurgy and Materials
- synchrotron methods in localised corrosion
- corrosion issues in nuclear waste storage
- corrosion of bipolar plates in PEM fuel cells
- corrosion of aluminium alloys
- corrosion of titanium alloys for biomedical applications