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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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Professor Peter Fryer

Professor of Chemical Engineering

School of Chemical Engineering

Peter Fryer’s main research interest is in the hygienic design of food processes, food structure development and food manufacture. The aim of his research is to apply the principles of chemical engineering to the problems of the food industry. The food industry differs from conventional process industries in that product safety is as important as process safety (eg, his team study the hygienic design of processes and the ways in ...

Dr Daniel Fulton

Dr Daniel Fulton

Associate Professor in Glial Biology
Interim Department Head of Education

Department of Inflammation and Ageing

  • Simon Foale, B.Sc., M.Sc. MRC funded Ph.D. Title ‘The role of amphoterin induced gene and open reading frame 3 (AMIGO3) in the pathogenesis of inflammatory demyelination’. Graduated July 2019.
  • Sayed Muhammed Rassul, B.Sc., M.Sc. PSIBS Ph.D. title ‘Single molecule imaging of myelin proteins’. Graduated July 2019.
  • Majed Almutairi, B.Sc. M. Sc. PhD Fellowship funded by the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia. 'Exploring the role of amphoterin-induced gene and open reading ...

Dr Matteo Fuoli

Dr Matteo Fuoli

Associate Professor in Corpus-based Discourse Analysis

Department of Linguistics and Communication

I would be happy to supervise research projects on the following topics:
• business discourse and communication: how companies use language to communicate with different audiences and accomplish important communicative goals
• polarization on social media: what are the linguistic factors that drive people apart online?
• experimental approaches to (critical) discourse analysis: using experiments to test hypotheses based on exploratory discourse analysis research
• trust from a linguistic perspective: ...