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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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Head of the School of Social Policy and Society
Professor of Health Policy and Sociology, Health Services Management Centre
Health Services Management Centre
Nicola is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in any of the following areas:
- Preventative health care policy (especially using risk work theory)
- Sociology of health and healing (especially complementary and alternative medicine)
- Sociology of work and professions (especially embodied forms of learning, lay health workers)
- Gender and sexuality (especially around LGBTQ health inequalities)
- Sociology of the body and embodiment (especially body work theory)
- Interdisciplinary and applied health research, using qualitative methods ...
Professor of Health Care Law
Birmingham Law School
Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,
Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research

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

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, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

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’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...

Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods
Director, NIHR Research Support Service National Collaborative
Director NIHR Research Support Service Birmingham Hub and partners Keele, and Warwick
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Thomas is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following general areas:
- Determinants of cardiometabolic disease, particularly atrial fibrillation, morbidity and mortality.
- Approaches to attenuate cardiometabolic disease and associated risk factors and improve care pathways for their management.
- Health consequences of air pollution.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Thomas on the contact details above or through FindAPhD.com.
Professor Thomas has ...

Research Fellow
School of Psychology
Ben is interested in supervising students in the areas of qualitative research related to mental health, applied health research, and ethics (including applied/practical ethics). He currently supervises students on qualitative research projects.

Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care
Department of Applied Health Sciences
KK has supervised over 20 doctoral students at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡. Important examples of publications arising from their theses include:
Li B, Pallan M, Liu WJ, Hemming K, Frew E, Lin R, Liu W, Martin J, Zanganeh M, Hurley K, Cheng KK, Adab P. The CHIRPY DRAGON intervention in preventing obesity in Chinese primary-school--aged children: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2019 Nov 26;16(11):e1002971. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002971. (this was one of ...

Honorary Professor
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Primary Supervision
Completed
- PhD Pundir J (2016-2022) Interventions to improve fertility outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
- PhD A Hamilton (2013-2019) Views of women and healthcare professionals on lifestyle interventions in pregnancy
- PhD B Wattar - (2013-2017) - Improving health outcomes for pregnant women with metabolic risk factors
- PhD J Allotey (2014-2018) Improving the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
- PhD E Rogozinska (2014-2017) Diet and physical activity based interventions for antenatal ...

Associate Professor
Health Services Management Centre
PhD Supervision Interests
Sexual Health in children and young people
Sexual behaviours in children and young people
Evaluation of policy and programmes
Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Jonathan is currently supervising two PhD students:
- Derek Kyte (2011 – 2014; FT) The Methodological and Ethical Issues Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Clinical Trials
- Bert Vanderhaegen (2013 - 2019; PT) A Critical Reflection upon the Nature, Limits and Impact of Empirical Ethics’
Former PhD students are:
- Greg Moorlock (2009-2012; FT) An empirically informed ethical analysis of directed and conditional cadaveric organ donation. Awarded in 2012.
- Simon Jenkins ...

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.