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 Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy
Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement
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.
Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories
Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights
Department of English Literature
鈥� Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
鈥� Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
鈥� Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory
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
Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� International and comparative human rights law
鈥� Socio-economic rights
鈥� Decolonization of law and justice
鈥� Critical approaches to human rights
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
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 ...
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.
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.