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. 

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ results for “health care law”

Professor Nicola Gale

Professor Nicola Gale

Head of the School of Social Policy and Society
Professor of Health Policy and Sociology, Health Services Management Centre

Health Services Management Centre

Nicola is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in any of the following areas:

  • Preventative health care policy (especially using risk work theory)
  • Sociology of health and healing (especially complementary and alternative medicine)
  • Sociology of work and professions (especially embodied forms of learning, lay health workers)
  • Gender and sexuality (especially around LGBTQ health inequalities)
  • Sociology of the body and embodiment (especially body work theory)
  • Interdisciplinary and applied health research, using qualitative methods ...

Professor Jean V. McHale

Professor of Health Care Law

Birmingham Law School

Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,

Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research






Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor Atina Krajewska

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



Dr Kirsty Moreton

Dr Kirsty Moreton

Associate Professor in Law

Birmingham Law School

Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

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 ...


Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods
Director, NIHR Research Support Service National Collaborative
Director NIHR Research Support Service Birmingham Hub and partners Keele, and Warwick

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Professor Thomas is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following general areas:

  • Determinants of cardiometabolic disease, particularly atrial fibrillation,  morbidity and mortality.
  • Approaches to attenuate cardiometabolic disease and associated risk factors and improve care pathways for their management.
  • Health consequences of air pollution.

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Thomas on the contact details above or through FindAPhD.com.

Professor Thomas has ...

Dr Benjamin Costello

Dr Benjamin Costello

Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Ben is interested in supervising students in the areas of qualitative research related to mental health, applied health research, and ethics (including applied/practical ethics). He currently supervises students on qualitative research projects.

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor of Law and Political Economy

Birmingham Law School

I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation





Professor KK Cheng

Professor KK Cheng

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care

Department of Applied Health Sciences

KK has supervised over 20 doctoral students at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡. Important examples of publications arising from their theses include:

Li B, Pallan M, Liu WJ, Hemming K, Frew E, Lin R, Liu W, Martin J, Zanganeh M, Hurley K, Cheng KK, Adab P. The CHIRPY DRAGON intervention in preventing obesity in Chinese primary-school--aged children: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2019 Nov 26;16(11):e1002971. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002971. (this was one of ...

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Honorary Professor

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Primary Supervision

Completed

  • PhD Pundir J (2016-2022) Interventions to improve fertility outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
  • PhD A Hamilton (2013-2019) Views of women and healthcare professionals on lifestyle interventions in pregnancy
  • PhD B Wattar - (2013-2017) - Improving health outcomes for pregnant women with metabolic risk factors
  • PhD J Allotey (2014-2018) Improving the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
  • PhD E Rogozinska (2014-2017) Diet and physical activity based interventions for antenatal ...

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Associate Professor

Health Services Management Centre

PhD Supervision Interests

Sexual Health in children and young people
Sexual behaviours in children and young people
Evaluation of policy and programmes
Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties






Dr Jonathan (Jon) Ives

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Jonathan is currently supervising two PhD students:

  • Derek Kyte (2011 – 2014; FT) The Methodological and Ethical Issues Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Clinical Trials
  • Bert Vanderhaegen (2013 - 2019; PT) A Critical Reflection upon the Nature, Limits and Impact of Empirical Ethics’

Former PhD students are:

  • Greg Moorlock (2009-2012; FT)  An empirically informed ethical analysis of directed and conditional cadaveric organ donation. Awarded in 2012.
  • Simon Jenkins ...

Dr Ben Earle

Dr Ben Earle

Senior Lecturer
Head of Department of Music

Department of Music

I have supervised PhD and MA research dissertations on a wide range of twentieth-century musical topics, including: the piano music of Erik Satie; British musical Wagnerism; the solo Cello Sonata of Zoltan Kodaly; the choral music of Ton de Leeuw; the experience of temporality in Olivier Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen; music, politics and philosophy in the work of Luciano Berio; Maltese chamber music; Michael Tippett and Jungian psychology; harmony and ...

Dr John Easton

Dr John Easton

Lecturer

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

John Easton's research interests centre on methods for the storage, processing and display of railway related datasets - in particular data representation and exchange via ontologies, manipulation and integration of data relevant to the multimodal transport system, and cyber security in industrial control systems.

Professor Kirsty Edgar

Professor Kirsty Edgar

Professor in Micropalaeontology
Head of Research in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Kirsty Edgar is interested in:

[1] Understanding the timing and nature of the interaction between global climate, geochemical cycling, and biota during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic. A major research focus is elucidating the dynamics and consequences of transient climate events in the geological record and the evolution of planktic foraminifera.
[2] Conservation of palaeontological heritage: focussed on how we identify, record, conserve and communicate palaeontological heritage. Current work integrates digital ...


Professor Nikk Effingham

Professor Nikk Effingham

Professor of Philosophy
Head of Department

Department of Philosophy

I currently supervise doctoral candidates researching areas including metaontology, ontology, the philosophy of time, and the philosophy of mind. I can supervise theses in a wide variety of areas of theoretical philosophy, including metaphysics and many areas of philosophy of religion, science and mind.

Dr Nikolaos Efstathiou

Dr Nikolaos Efstathiou

Associate Professor

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Dr Efstathiou's expertise in qualitative research methods and Delphi Technique has led him to working with research students on various subjects (bariatric surgery, voiding difficulties, depression in renal dialysis patients, labour and sepsis and maternal mental illness, identifying research priorities, palliative and end-of-life care).

He is interested in supervising research students in the following areas:

  • End-of-Life care in acute care settings
  • Decision making in End-of-Life care
  • Withdrawal of life sustaining ...

Dr Inya Egbe

Dr Inya Egbe

Associate Professor in Accounting

The Department of Accounting

Inya is interested in supervising postgraduate thesis in management accounting, especially in the following area but not limited to:

  • The design and use of management control systems
  • The management control systems aspects of sustainability accounting
  • Performance measurement and evaluation systems.
  • Accounting and development issues.

 

Professor Bridget Eickhoff

Professor Bridget Eickhoff

Professor of Railway Interface Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering

Support to MSc dissertation projects on a case-by-case basis, provision of input to doctoral level research.

Dr Edith Elgueta Cancino

Dr Edith Elgueta Cancino

Research Fellow

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Edith will co-supervise a Pre-reg Masters Student this year and is looking forward to increasing her participation in supervision activities for the next year.

Dr Jo Ellins

Dr Jo Ellins

Senior Fellow
Departmental lead for Research and Postgraduate Research

Health Services Management Centre

Jo is interested in supervising PhDs in the following topics:

  • Youth mental health policy and practice
  • School-based mental health and wellbeing
  • Personal experiences of health/mental health and illness
  • Person-centred quality and service improvement
  • Co-design and public involvement in service delivery, improvement and research, including with seldom heard groups  
  • Health policy and service evaluation, especially projects using qualitative methods

Please do feel free to get in contact, with a research ...

Karen Elliott

Karen Elliott

Chair and Professor of Practice in Finance and Fintech

The Department of Finance

  • Fintech
  • Corporate Digital Responsibility
  • Data and Digital Ethics
  • Financial Inclusion
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Responsible Innovation

Dr Mark Elliott

Dr Mark Elliott

Associate Professor of Human Movement Analytics

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Dr Elliott is interested in supervising Masters and PhD students in the following areas:

  • Early detection of osteoarthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions using objective measures of movement, physiology and other variables.
  • Modelling and predicting health outcomes using smartphone/wearable based measures of physical activity, sleep and other variables.
  • Technologies to support self-management of physiotherapy (inc. virtual/augmented realities, smartphone apps)
  • Integration and standardisation of large human movement datasets.
  • Investigating the role of ...

Robert Elliott

Robert Elliott

Professor of Economics
Director of Research - Department of Economics

Business School

Professor Elliott is available to supervise PhD students across a broad range of topics including international and development economics and environmental and energy economics. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged and students will need to be familar with the manipulation of large data sets and econometric techniques and methods.