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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Dr Yingjing Feng

Dr Yingjing Feng

Research Fellow

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Yingjing is actively involved in the supervision of Master’s student projects, providing guidance and mentorship to students as they navigate their research. She is particularly passionate about exploring the intersection of deep learning and applied mathematics.

Dr Sally A. M. Fenton

Dr Sally A. M. Fenton

Associate Professor in Lifestyle Behaviour Change

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

PhD – Florentia Kitas – Primary supervisor (October 2023 – present), “Developing an intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour among people living with RA” (Funder - NIHR Birmingham BRC).

PhD – Joanne Barrett – Primary supervisor (October 2023 – present), “The MoreLife with CF Study” (Funder – NIHR Doctoral Training Fellowship)

PhD - Saleh Elmsmari – Second supervisor (January 2020 – present), “Physical activity and fatigue in Rheumatoid Arthritis” ...

Dr Sarah-Jane Hannah Fenton

Dr Sarah-Jane Hannah Fenton

Lecturer in Mental Health Policy

Health Services Management Centre

Sarah-Jane is interested in supervising PhD work related to youth mental health; mental health policy and practice; qualitative research involving realist methodologies; and research into health and social care involving young people.

 

Professor Alexandros Feresidis

Professor of Microwave and Terahertz Communications
Head of the Metamaterials Engineering Laboratory

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Professor Feresidis supervises research on electromagnetic metamaterials, antennas for mobile and wireless communications,  mm-wave and THz antennas and circuits.

If you are interested to study for a PhD in these areas please contact Professor Feresidis directly.

Current PhD projects:

  • Kostantinos Konstantinidis, “Metamaterials-based high gain antennas”
  • Marina Mavridou, “Tunable metamaterials and antennas”

Past PhD projects:

  • George Apostolopoulos, “Miniaturised metallodielectric periodic structures for electromagnetic band gap materials and antenna applications” Awarded Dec. ...

Professor Harry Ferguson

Professor Harry Ferguson

Professor of Social Work

Department of Social Work and Social Care

Harry is a very experienced PhD supervisor and examiner and welcomes enquires and applications from prospective candidates.

Dr Jane Ferguson

Assistant Professor

Health Services Management Centre

Jane is interested in supervising projects relating to the healthcare workforce.

Dr Rex Ferguson

Dr Rex Ferguson

Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature

Department of English Literature

I have supervised students on a range of topics including Modernism and Marketing, the literary impressionism of Freud's writing and the memoirs of Detectives from the early twentieth-century.

I would be very happy to hear from prospective students working in the following areas:

Twentieth-century Fiction
Law and Literature
Education and Literature
Cultural Studies
Philosophical Approaches (especially phenomenological)







Professor Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

Professor Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias

Honorary Professor

Department of African Studies and Anthropology

Moraes Farias has examined doctoral theses at the Université de Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Université de Provence, the University of Tampere (Finland), and the Université de Paris VIII. In Britain, he has examined PhD theses at SOAS, King's College London, University College London, and in Cambridge University and the University of Manchester. The PhD projects he has supervised include:           

  • T.O.R. Green, “Masters of Difference: Creolization and the Jewish Presence ...

Professor Ewan Fernie

Professor Ewan Fernie

Chair of Shakespeare Studies and Fellow

Shakespeare Institute

I have supervised PhDs on a range of subjects, including Shakespearean narcissism and existentialism; Stephen Greenblatt and the subjectivity of criticism; Shakespeare and the American imagination; androgyny in Renaissance drama; undressing in early modern literature and culture; Shakespeare and the Bible; Shakespeare and Wagner; forgiveness in Shakespeare and early literature; A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream and immortality; and the fortunes of verse drama after Shakespeare.

I would be very pleased to ...

Professor Charles Ferro

Professor Charles Ferro

Consultant Nephrologist: University Hospitals Birmingham
Honorary Professor of Renal Medicine: University 麻豆精选
Honorary Lecturer: University College London

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Professor Ferro has supervised 2 MSc Students and 7 PhD candidates to completion. He currently supervises 4 PhD candidates, 1 MD candidate and 1 MPharm candidate.

Dr Leslie Fesenmyer

Dr Leslie Fesenmyer

Associate Professor in Social Anthropology and African Studies

Department of African Studies and Anthropology

I welcome enquiries from students interested in the anthropology of migration and diasporas; religion, particularly Pentecostalism; and kinship and care.

Dr Antonio Feteira

Dr Antonio Feteira

Senior Research Fellow

School of Chemistry

Antonio is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Lead free piezoelectrics
  • Low temperature firing oxides for electronics
  • Multiferroic