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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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 鈥� but not limited to 鈥� 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
Chair in Finance
Business School Director of Global Engagement
The Department of Finance
Prof. Goyal has supervised 5 students to completion on topics such as risk disclosure, corporate secretaries, venture finance, and emerging markets, who are now working in academia and in industry in the U.K. and China.
Lecturer in corpus-based sociolinguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am interested in supervising MA and PhD research in linguistic variation of all stripes, particularly work focused on investigating usage-based models of social and/or cognitive factors shaping morphosyntactic variation in English (or other languages).
Associate Professor in Contemporary Literature and the Digital
Department of English Literature
I would be very happy to hear from prospective students working in the following areas: digital culture, critical theory, contemporary literature, new media and software studies, literary theory, digital humanities, and videogame studies.
Professor of Molecular Microbiology
School of Biosciences
David is always keen to welcome enthusiastic individuals to the lab. Contact him directly to discuss projects currently available. Details of funding available for PhD students in Birmingham are available here.
Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry
School of Chemistry
Richard is interested in supervising postgraduate students in the following areas:
- Natural product synthesis
- Free radical reactions
- Organochalcogen (S, Se, Te) chemistry
- Synthetic organic photochemistry and photocatalysis
- Peri- and bay-interactions
- Enzyme mimetics (FeFe hydrogenase and glutathione peroxidase)
- Peptide mimetics
- Medicinal chemistry
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.
Associate Professor
School of Dentistry
Dr Grant is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the areas of:
Saliva diagnostics, protein biomarkers, oral and systemic disease. Please get in touch if you have an interest in joining the team.
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Theology and Religion
- Quaker Studies
- Quaker theology
- Liberal and progressive religion and theology
- Atheism and agnosticism, especially within faith communities
- Multiple religious belonging
- Interfaith and interreligious
- Neo-pagan and other alternative religious paths
- Philosophy of religion
- Wittgenstein
- Feminist, queer and trans faith or religion
- Religious language
Find out more - our PhD Theology and Religion page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.
Professor of Materials Chemistry
School of Chemistry
- Electrode and electrolyte materials for solid oxide fuel cells
- Synthesis, electronic and magnetic properties of low dimensional materials
- Materials derived from mineral structures
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit the School of Chemistry website: www.chem.bham.ac.uk