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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Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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 Natasa Mavronicola

Professor Natasa Mavronicola

Professor of Human Rights Law

Birmingham Law School

Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:

torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy








Dr Ben Warwick

Dr Ben Warwick

Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy

Birmingham Law School

Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:

Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement



Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor of International Law & Human Rights

Birmingham Law School

Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.

Dr Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg

Dr Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg

Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy

Birmingham Law School

Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:

International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories





Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge

Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights

Department of English Literature

• Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
• Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
• Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory



Dr Shaimaa Abdelkarim

Dr Shaimaa Abdelkarim

Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)

Birmingham Law School

Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
• Third World Approaches to International Law
• Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
• Critical Approaches to Human Rights
• Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
• Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
• Law and Abolitionist Praxis







Professor Fiona de Londras

Professor Fiona de Londras

Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence

Birmingham Law School

Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...

Dr Rishika Sahgal

Dr Rishika Sahgal

Assistant Professor in Law

Birmingham Law School

Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
• International and comparative human rights law
• Socio-economic rights
• Decolonization of law and justice
• Critical approaches to human rights





Dr Meghan Campbell

Dr Meghan Campbell

Reader in International Human Rights Law

Birmingham Law School

Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights


Professor Rosie Harding

Professor Rosie Harding

Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean

Birmingham Law School

Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:

- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Dr Alan Greene

Dr Alan Greene

Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research

Birmingham Law School

Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights


Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia

Dr Silvana Tapia Tapia

Associate Professor in Law

Birmingham Law School

Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:

Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.




Dr Laura D’Olimpio

Dr Laura D’Olimpio

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

Professor Amanda Daley

Professor Amanda Daley

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.

Dr Sarah Damery

Dr Sarah Damery

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 ...

Dr Claire Dancer

Dr Claire Dancer

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 ...

Professor Ben Pink Dandelion

Professor Ben Pink Dandelion

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 ...

Dr Anissa Daoudi

Dr Anissa Daoudi

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 ...








Professor Brian W Darvell

Professor Brian W Darvell

Honorary Professorship

School of Dentistry

Successfully supervised 5 MPhil and 19 PhD students (all in Hong Kong)

 

Dr May Darwich

Dr May Darwich

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 Niheer Dasandi

Professor Niheer Dasandi

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

Dr Amy Daughton

Dr Amy Daughton

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.

Dr Maria Dauvermann

Dr Maria Dauvermann

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 Alison Davenport

Professor Alison Davenport

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