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.
麻豆精选 results for “legal education”
Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.
Associate Professor in Law (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
I am looking to supervise doctoral candidates in areas of criminal evidence, ethics (values) and legal education/mentoring in pedagogical curricula designs that enhances student learning and teacher reflection.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...
Professor of Translator Education
Head of School of Language, Culture, Art History and Music
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Department of Modern Languages
I have wide-ranging interests across the field of Translation Studies. My current PhD students are working in translation competence, translation industry requirements, ego-targeting in tourism translation, measurement of translator style using computational methods, the use of AI in legal translation and the use and translation of evaluative adjectives in tourism translation.
Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law
Current doctoral supervision:
Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation
Practitioner Tutor
School of Education
She has previously supervised the following doctoral level work: the views of men in primary school teaching; male mental health; universal design for learning in SEND; the lived experience of a visually impaired lecturer; the lived experience of a care leaver with SEND; careers advice for individuals with SEND.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Birmingham Law School
Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
鈥� Digital asset regulation
鈥� African customary law in juridical settings
鈥� Gender equality and sentencing
鈥� Decolonising IP law
Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution
Co-Deputy Head of Education (Education Review)
Birmingham Law School
dispute resolution, private international law
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Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement
Director of IRiS
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Nando welcomes proposals for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the following areas:
- Forced displacement and globalisation
- Sociology of statelessness
- Dual citizenship and the experiences of dual citizens
- The intersection between migration, rights and citizenship
- Everyday experiences of superdiversity
- Neoliberalism, globalisation and governance of human mobility
- The politics of refugee voices and silences
- Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism
- Undocumented migrants and experiences of ‘illegality’ through generations
- Child and family migration
- Transnationalism and ...
Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law
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 ...
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