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.
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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 Sudan; Constitutional Reform in ...
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 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 ...
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
Assistant Professor in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
Birmingham Law School
Iyan welcomes proposals for postgraduate research within his areas of research expertise outlined above and below.
Iyan is currently supervising the following PhD research:
Mo Esan: Investigating the History, Text and Implementation of the Animal Welfare Strategy for Africa through the lens of Third World Approaches to International Law
Samuel Hazle: Reforming Animal Law through an Intersectional Lens: Law鈥檚 Humanizing Function, Socio-Legal Justice Movements, and the Ongoing Battle to Enable ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥� Constitutional theory
鈥� Legal/political philosophy
鈥� Public law
鈥� Human rights law
鈥� Housing law
Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.
Current PhD students:
Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review
Past PhD students:
Sylvester ...
Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics
Department of Theology and Religion
I welcome proposals across Islamic Studies, especially in Islamic law and ethics, that engage the textual resources of the Islamic intellectual traditions.
Current doctoral supervision
The phenomena of Maddhab change amongst Sunni legal schools in the Mamluk period
Spiritual striving in British Muslim Shia communities
Previous doctoral supervision
The Origins of Im膩m墨 岣d墨th: A Bio-bibliographical Cross-reference Analysis
Taqi al-Din al-Subki on ijtihad and the role of the Qur鈥檃n in his ...
Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥�, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:
The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:
Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Discrimination Law
International Human Rights Law
Critical Legal Studies
Citizenship Studies
Migration
Islamic Law
Pakistan Law
Associate Professor
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 ...
Assistant Professor in the Ethics of Non-Violence
Department of Philosophy
Political philosophy, especially liberalism, tolerance, neutrality and political liberalism
Animal ethics
Feminist philosophy
Political philosophy of education; moral, religious and civic education; education policy
Ethics of parenting
Moral risk
Lecturer
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
John currently co-supervises 3 PhD students:
Chris Morris
John Stafford
Jonathan Tutcher (writing up)
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.
Senior Research Fellow in Evidence Synthesis
School of Social Policy and Society
Enquiries about potential PhD supervision related to my areas of research interests and expertise are welcome.
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.
Professor of Health Services Research
Departmental PhD lead
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