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 Sabine Lee

Professor Sabine Lee

Professor in Modern History

Department of History

Listed below are the fields in which Sabine Lee is able to offer supervision of research postgraduates.

Children Born of War; Children and War
History of UN Peacekeeping
Conflict-related gender-based violence
Social consequences of war and conflict
20th century British history
20th century international relations
19th and 20th century history of science (particularly mathematics and physics)
20th German history










Professor Matt Houlbrook

Professor Matt Houlbrook

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 ...

Professor Klaus Richter

Professor Klaus Richter

Professor of Central and Eastern European History

Department of History

I am currently first supervisor for the following students: Jonathan Conde, Graham Cox, Jared Feuerstein, Owen Grey and Marta Starostina.

I am happy to supervise doctoral work in the following areas: history of modern Eastern Europe, history of nationalism, interwar history, history of the First and Second World War.

Dr Steve Morewood

Dr Steve Morewood

Associate Professor in International History

Department of History

Steve Morewood's research interests include the military, political and strategic history of the modern East Mediterranean region (late19th and 20th centuries). He has supervised several PhDs to a successful conclusion with some students going on to publish their dissertations in book form. Topics have included the Greek press during the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22, Turkey and the Straits in the early Cold War period and the Greek-Cypriot perspective in the ...

Dr Imogen Peck

Dr Imogen Peck

Assistant Professor in British History
Director, Centre for Midlands History and Cultures

Department of History

I am happy to supervise doctoral researchers on topics relating to my research specialisms, just get in touch. I would be particularly keen to hear from students who are interested in working on: memory and the commemoration of conflict; family and local memory; family history; the social history of archives; the social and cultural history of the Midlands, especially during the early modern period.

Dr James Pugh

Dr James Pugh

Lecturer in Modern History

Department of History

I currently supervise or co-supervise a number of MA and PhD students. Subjects in which I am interested include:

The modern history of drugs, especially with a focus on Britain.
The modern history of drugs and warfare.
The history, theory and practice of air power, particularly during the era of total war.
The military history of the two World Wars, especially from a British perspective.




Dr Thomas Brodie

Dr Thomas Brodie

Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History

Department of History

I would be delighted to hear from students intending to work on any aspect of Modern German history, as well as those with thematic interests in the histories of religion, war and memory in any European context since 1800.

Dr George Kyris

Dr George Kyris

Associate Professor in International Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

I would welcome PhD applications in areas related to my research interests below, and I would encourage potential supervisees to get in touch:

- international conflict, conflict management and resolution
- international organisations, the European Union
- state recognition
- statehood, sovereignty
- secession
- unrecognised/ de facto states






Dr Hannah Cornwell

Dr Hannah Cornwell

Associate Professor in Ancient History

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology

I welcome proposals for supervision in any aspect of Roman History, especially political aspects of the Roman Republic and Early Principate, Imperial ideology, International Relations and diplomacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to history and material culture.

Postgraduate research projects I have supervised or am currently supervising include:

Ben Salisbury, 鈥楤efore Public Opinion: The Role of Tribunes of the Plebs in Creating, Manipulating, and Responding to Popular Sentiment in the Late Roman ...



Professor Joy Porter

Professor Joy Porter

Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group

Department of History

Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...

Dr Daniel Whittingham

Dr Daniel Whittingham

Associate Professor in the History of Warfare and Conflict

Department of History

I would welcome PhD proposals on the following topics: British colonial warfare (including war during the era of decolonisation), Counterinsurgency, and the British army 1815-1945.

Dr Berny S猫be

Dr Berny S猫be

Senior Lecturer in colonial and post-colonial studies

Department of Modern Languages

I am happy to offer postgraduate research supervision in the following fields:

Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
British and French imperial history
Decolonisation and the End of Empire
Colonial memory
Nineteenth and Twentieth French History

I supervise or co-supervises MA dissertation students in the above mentioned areas, and perform the role of PhD supervisor for several PhD theses:

Dunya Ismael (as lead supervisor): 鈥楻etro-cultural translation: neutralising cultural capital accumulation and power ...









Professor Larissa Fabritz

Professor Larissa Fabritz

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 ...

Dr Alessio Faccia

Dr Alessio Faccia

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

Dr John Fagg

Dr John Fagg

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 ...




Dr Marie Falahee

Dr Marie Falahee

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

Professor Deborah Falla

Professor Deborah Falla

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.

Dr Yun Fan

Dr Yun Fan

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.

Professor Asaad Faramarzi

Professor Asaad Faramarzi

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 ...




Dr Amin Farjudian

Dr Amin Farjudian

Associate Professor
Chair of Information Technology and Digital Delivery

School of Mathematics

Amin Farjudian supervises students in mathematical foundations of computer science.

Dr Amanda Farley

Dr Amanda Farley

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.

Dr Jessica Fay

Dr Jessica Fay

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.


Dr Qulsom Fazil

Dr Qulsom Fazil

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.

Dr Colm Fearon

Dr Colm Fearon

Senior Lecturer in Business Education

Department of Management

Colm has supervised, co-supervised and examined several PhD’s.