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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 School
Professor of Mathematics
School of Mathematics
Chris Good’s early research was in the construction of counterexamples (often using set-theoretic methods) especially around the Dowker space question and the behaviour of normality in product spaces. More recently he has become interested in dynamical systems, in particular symbolic dynamics and the structure of invariant sets, and abstract topological dynamics. He is able to supervise doctoral research in these areas, as well as in:
The structure of ω-limit sets ...
Teaching and Research Fellow
School of Chemical Engineering
Kylee has been the industrial supervisor for 2 EngD and 2 PhD students and is now the Co-supervisor of 2 EngD students and 1 PhD student. She also has supervisory responsibility for current EngD students (~50).

Research Fellow in Global Health
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Vethanayagam Antony Sheron; PhD lead supervisor

Honorary Professor of Rail Traction Systems
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Occasional help given to colleagues’ research students

Lecturer
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
- Bircan Ciytak- Negotiating belonging across generations: The case of 3rd Turkish heritage migrants in Germany. PhD FT.
- Andrew Jolly – Insecure and undocumented: food and support for undocumented migrant families in Birmingham
- Sandra Pertek- Sexual and Gender-based Violence during the Refugee Journey: Vulnerabilities, Inequalities and Responses. PhD FT.
- Roberto Ozman- Foster care for unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) in the UK: assessing placement success. PHD PT.
- Harry Ntata- Decision ...

Professor of Pure Mathematics
School of Mathematics
Simon supervises PhD and MRes projects on a range of different topics related to the representation theory and structure theory of algebraic groups and Lie algebras, and is interested in supervising new students.

Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology
Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Previous postgradute teaching and supervision
- Academic FY1 and FY2 doctors
- Academic Clinical Fellow and Clinical Research Fellows
- Educational supervisor (M Res, MD, PhD programmes)
- Specialist Registrars
- Lectures to those training in Rheumatology, Immunology, General Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and A&E in the Midlands; and supervises rheumatology registrars in clinical and research work at City hospital, Birmingham
- MSc in Rheumatology
- Local lecturer and previously external lecturer at University of London (Guys’ ...

Professor of Composition
Department of Music
Michael Zev Gordon's research area is composition. He has had a particular interest in exploring the relationship between the present and the past through composition, with special attention to the workings of memory. He is also interested in dialogues between Western and non-Western materials in composition, and in the subjects of the musical fragment and time in music. Technically, he continues to work on developing a musical syntax that can ...

Lecturer in Pharmaceutics
School of Pharmacy
Sarah is interested in supervising projects in the following areas:
- Lipid and/or polymer-based nanocarriers for anti-infective delivery
- Formulation and characterisation of non-invasive vaccine delivery systems
- Biomimetic nanocarrier fabrication and application

Dharmanath Assistant Professor in Jain Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
I welcome PhD students working on a South Asian tradition, especially in – but not limited to – the field of philosophy of religion and epistemology.
Note that, depending on the dissertation topic, the acquisition of at least one Indian classical, pre-Modern, or contemporary language is regularly involved, I can help in this.
Professor of Particle Physics
Birmingham Fellow
Currently supervising PhD students working on the NA62 experiment at CERN.

Professor of Marketing
Department of Marketing
- Six successful PhD supervisions
- Numerous Masters dissertation supervision