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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Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Sciences
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Current and previous PhD Students
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Sian-Marie O’Brien
Defended thesis 2019 – "Regulation of intracellular sodium in the atria"
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Dannie Fobian
Defended thesis 2020 – "Translating the effect of rate control therapy in atrial fibrillation: from cellular response to cardiac function"
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Chris O’Shea
Defended thesis 2020 – "Developing a high-resolution optical mapping setup with integrated high-throughput analysis capabilites for dissecting molecular mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias"
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Simon Wells
Defended thesis 2020 ...
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 ...
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, 鈥楻econsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Charlotte is happy to supervise doctoral students for projects focusing on family law, especially those concerning adult relationships.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Birmingham Law School
Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
鈥� Digital asset regulation
鈥� African customary law in juridical settings
鈥� Gender equality and sentencing
鈥� Decolonising IP law
Professor of Feminist Legal Studies
Head of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
I am willing to supervise research students in the following areas:
Gender, law and Religion, particularly from feminist or critical legal perspectives.
Politics of reproductive justice.
'Historical' institutional abuse.
Law, activism and social movements.
I am happy to answer email queries from prospective students before submission of an official proposal.
Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.
Reader in Sustainable Energy Technologies
Head of Sustainable Energy Technology Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. AL-Dadah works currently supervises the following doctoral research projects:
- Anil Taskin (November 2020 to November 2024): Development of small-scale scroll expander for organic Rankine cycle. Sponsored by the Turkish Government.
- Andrew Makar (October 2020 to October 2024): Development of open cycle desiccant cooling system using metal organic framework adsorbent materials for air conditioning application. Sponsored by the British Council.
- Ibrahim Albaik (October 2019 to October 2023): Development and optimisation ...
Birmingham Fellow
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Migration, asylum, immigration detention, deportation, families, Article 8 rights, gender, men and masculinity, time, bureaucracies, legal courts, hostile environment
Emeritus Professor of Urban Education History
Director of the Voices of War & Peace Centre
School of Education
Ian is interested in the following research topics:
- material cultures of schooling;
- cultural diversity and race equality;
- anti-racist and refugee education;
- black history;
- museum and heritage education; the teaching of history.
He currently supervises a number of students including the following:
- Izzy Mohammed - Public archives, Representation and Integration in Post-War, Multicultural Urban Contexts: Birmingham and Manchester
- Alison Laitner - Discovering Childrens’ Voices and Experiences; Changes from family to institutional care ...
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.
Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you鈥檙e interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...
Honorary Professor
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
- PhD supervisor
- MD supervisor
Current students are listed on the group webpage.
Professor Fabritz has supervised MD and PhD students in Germany and the UK and offers translational and interdisciplinary cardiovascular research projects on various topics of heart failure and arrhythmias, cardiomyopathies and sudden death with opportunities for engagement in international collaborations. If you are interested in an MD or PhD in these areas, please contact Professor Fabritz via ...
Assistant Professor in Finance
Dubai Campus
Finance, Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Open Innovation, Blockchain, Triple Entry Accounting, Blockchain Accounting, Machine Learning, Fraud Examination, Fractal Finance
Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Cultures
Department of English Literature
I am keen to work with research students exploring pre-1945 American art, realist and proletarian art and literature, and nineteenth and twentieth century (American) print culture and illustration. But as below I have supervised on a range of late-nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first- century American literature, visual art, and culture topics and would be very happy to discuss projects in these areas.
Current supervisions
Mid-Twentieth Century American Small-Town Narratives
Representation of ...
Lecturer in Behavioural Rheumatology
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Dr Falahee supervises doctoral students in areas related to her research interests and welcomes enquiries from self-funded PhD students with a background in behavioural / social science or medicine who have an interest in behavioural rheumatology. Dr Falahee is currently co-supervising an Arthritis Research UK funded PhD student (Imogen Wells) examining stakeholder perspectives on preventive approaches to rheumatoid arthritis
Director, Centre of Precision Rehabilitation for Spinal Pain
Chair in Rehabilitation Science and Physiotherapy
Rehabilitation & Motor Control Theme Lead
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Professor Falla is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
Musculoskeletal physiotherapy, low back pain, neck pain, whiplash associated disorders, headache, muscle fatigue, neuromuscular adaptations to training, mechanisms underlying motor adaptations to pain, efficacy of physiotherapy interventions for musculoskeletal pain
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Deborah on the contact details above.
Associate Professor in Cell and Developmental Genetics
School of Biosciences
Please find details of our PhD research projects at FindAPhD:
- Regulation of apoptosis-induced compensatory cell proliferation and its implications for cancer and tissue regeneration
- Determining novel molecular regulators of necrosis controlling premature cell death
Competition funded PhD studentships are available. Applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Fan directly.
Postdoctoral Fellow applications are also welcome. Please contact Dr Fan to explore funding opportunities.
Head of Civil Engineering
Professor of Civil and Geotechnical Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Prof Asaad Faramarzi's main research interest is in computational modelling applied to geotechnical engineering problems. He is interested in developing novel numerical procedures for sensing techniques to capture buried infrastructure-ground interaction, and locating and condition assessment of underground features. He also has interest in poroelasticity, inter-particle interaction of granular assemblies and novel foundations to support offshore structures.
Prof Faramarzi's current research includes:
Inferring data from quantum technology sensors
Finite element ...
Associate Professor
Chair of Information Technology and Digital Delivery
School of Mathematics
Amin Farjudian supervises students in mathematical foundations of computer science.
Associate Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology
Head of Post Graduate Research (PGR) for the Department of Applied Health Sciences
Medicine and Health
Amanda is interested in supervising PhD students in the fields of behavioural change, tobacco addiction, e-cigarettes and drug and alcohol addiction.
Teaching Fellow in Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century English Literature
Department of English Literature
I have supervised postgraduate research on Dorothy Wordsworth's correspondence, Percy Shelley's legacies, Romantic responses to Bruges, and the nineteenth-century painter William Collins.
I would be happy to discuss potential research projects in any area of Romanticism (especially those focusing on William and Dorothy Wordsworth), place-writing, or the relationship between poetry and painting.
Lecturer in Disability Studies and Behavioural Science
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Qulsom is happy to supervise postgraduate research in the areas of ethnicity and health care. Disability and ethnicity and social and cultural aspects of mental well-being and illness.
Senior Lecturer in Business Education
Department of Management
Colm has supervised, co-supervised and examined several PhD’s.