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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Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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 Nicola Gale

Professor Nicola Gale

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 Joseph Galea

Professor Joseph Galea

Professor of Motor Neuroscience
Head of Research

School of Psychology

Potential postgraduate students should email me to discuss funding opportunities.

Dr Daniel Gallacher

Dr Daniel Gallacher

Assistant Professor

Health Services Management Centre

Dan is interested in supervising post-graduate projects which focus on methodology for economic evaluation, health technology assessment or survival extrapolation. Dan is also interested to supervise projects which will make a positive contribution to health outcomes and feature a large quantitative analysis element.

Dr Meurig Thomas Gallagher

Dr Meurig Thomas Gallagher

Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Healthcare Science
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Research Person Responsible (Centre #0209)

School of Mathematics

Dr Gallagher supervises an excellent team, looking at problems across fertility, endocrinology and mathematics. His current research projects include:

  • healthcare science projects aimed at improving male diagnostics for fertility treatment;
  • understanding societal aspects of reproduction including how best to educate; computationally modelling the swimming sperm cell in non-Newtonian fluid environments;
  • and using asymptotic models together with Bayesian inference to understand treatment regimens for adrenal insufficient patients.

Meurig currently has a ...

Dr Meurig Thomas Gallagher

Dr Meurig Thomas Gallagher

Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Healthcare Science
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Research Person Responsible (Centre #0209)

School of Mathematics

Dr Gallagher supervises an excellent team, looking at problems across fertility, endocrinology and mathematics. His current research projects include:

  • healthcare science projects aimed at improving male diagnostics for fertility treatment;
  • understanding societal aspects of reproduction including how best to educate; computationally modelling the swimming sperm cell in non-Newtonian fluid environments;
  • and using asymptotic models together with Bayesian inference to understand treatment regimens for adrenal insufficient patients.

Meurig currently has a ...

Dr Isabel Galleymore

Dr Isabel Galleymore

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Department of Film and Creative Writing

I would be interested in proposals regarding ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice. I am currently supervising doctoral projects on interspecies collaboration in poetry and 'How the Environment ‘Signs’ the Climate Crisis: A Poetic Interpretation through the Lens of BSL'.

Professor Ioannis D Gallos

Professor Ioannis D Gallos

Honorary Professor

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Currently, Ioannis is supervising eight PhD students. Has previously supervised students for BMedSc and electives and his students achieved outstanding success with publications in acclaimed academic journals such as the BMJ.

Dr Charlotte Galpin

Dr Charlotte Galpin

Associate Professor in German and European Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Dr Galpin is interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

  • National and European Identity
  • European Public Sphere
  • Euroscepticism
  • The role of Germany and/or Britain in Europe
  • Brexit
  • Media representation including social media
  • Gender, feminist and queer approaches to the above

Professor Aga Gambus

Professor Aga Gambus

Professor of DNA Metabolism
Wellcome Trust and Lister Fellow

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Dr Gambus is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

Regulation of eukaryotic DNA replication
DNA replication and tumor development
Novel anticancer therapy targets essential for DNA replic



Dr Dimitri M Gangardt

Reader in Theoretical Physics

School of Physics and Astronomy

  • Supervision of research PhDs in Theoretical Physics

 

Dr David Gange

Dr David Gange

Associate Professor in History

Department of History

·       Histories of coastal communities

·       Histories of heavy music

·       Cultural and religious histories of the nineteenth century

Professor Fang Gao

Professor Fang Gao

Professor in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain

Department of Inflammation and Ageing

Fang is Academic Supervisor/Mentor of NIHR Clinician Scientist, NIHR Post-Doctoral Fellowship, NIHR Clinical Lecturer and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia. She is an active supervisor for postgraduate high degrees of PhD, MD and MS, projects including those examining clinical aspects of ARDS, Hospital Infection and Sepsis, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Chronic Pain through to basic mechanisms involved in these research areas.