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 “international law”
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.
Professor of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
鈥� Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
鈥� The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
鈥� Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
鈥� John Austin鈥檚 theory of law
鈥� Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law
Associate Professor
Director of LLM Programme (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Hwaidi currently accepts PhD candidates in the following areas:
鈥� Commercial law
鈥� International trade law
鈥� Law and technology
鈥� Contract law/ tort law
鈥� International finance and banking law
鈥� Law and sociology
鈥� Arbitration
鈥� Maritime law
He has supervised PhD students in the areas of the law of blockchain, drafting arbitration clauses in commercial contracts, carriage of goods by sea and privacy law.
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 ...
Assistant Professor in International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
International Humanitarian Law (the law of armed conflict), International Criminal Law, Transnational Criminal Law (to include cross-border crimes, such as trafficking and piracy)
International law and global legal studies (to include conflicts, transitional justice, international criminal law)
Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Birmingham Law School
鈥� Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
鈥� International Commercial Arbitration
鈥� International Investment Law and Arbitration
鈥� Energy Law
鈥� Law and Technology
鈥� AI and Law
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 ...
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
Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Birmingham Law School
Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.
Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.
Current PhD students
鈥� Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...
Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
鈥� Law and development (especially in Latin America)
鈥� Law and political economy
鈥� Gender, sexuality, and law
鈥� Gambling regulation
Barber Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Contract/Commercial law
Conflict of Laws
Arbitration
Comparative Law
International Trade and Finance
Current doctoral supervision
Professor Enonchong is currently supervising four doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas
Contractual Mechanisms for Reducing Risks in Long Term Oil and Gas Agreements
The Scope of the Liability of Arbitral Institutions towards the Disputing Parties
Judicial Review of International Arbitral Awards
Balancing the demands of procedural fairness and finality in ADR in ...
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鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
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 ...
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 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 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.
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:
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 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.
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.
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 ...
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
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 ...
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.