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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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
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Paleoclimates, carbon cycle, mass extinctions, Earth system modelling, biogeochemical cycles, large igneous provinces, sedimentology, geobiology, carbonate chemistry, machine learning
Professor of Medical Sociology
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Sheila is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Lay health beliefs
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Beliefs and behaviours related to medicine taking
- Research using qualitative methodology
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Sheila on the contact details above.
Associate Professor Nursing
Lead for Postgraduate Taught and CPD School of Nursing and Midwifery
School of Nursing and Midwifery
- PG service evaluation projects
Professor in Education
Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor Student Engagement
School of Education
Her areas for supervision are:
- Early Years workforce reform
- Early Years practitioners professional identity
- Gender issues connected to the recruitment of males into Early Years
- Leadership and Management within the nursery sector
- Creative Curriculum with reference to young children’s social and emotional development
- Outdoor learning and Forest schools
Engineering Doctorate Programme Manager
School of Chemical Engineering
Supervision of PhD, MRes and EngD projects in Formulation Engineering.
Professor of Musculoskeletal Ageing and Health
Carolyn has supervised/ co-supervised 5 doctoral students to completion and currently supervises a further 10 students as well as MSc/ MRes students.
Professor of Corpus Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I have supervised PhD students working on a range of topics, including corpus linguistics, dialectology, forensic linguistics, and sociolinguistics. I welcome applications from students working in any of these areas.
Senior Lecturer in English Medieval Studies
Department of English Literature
I am pleased to supervise MA, MPhil and PhD students on literary and cross-disciplinary subjects. Current and recent students have worked on:
鈥� 鈥楾he political appropriation of John Lydgate鈥檚 Fall of Princes: a manuscript study of British Library, MS Harley 1766鈥� (PhD)
鈥� 鈥楢sceticism in late-medieval religious writing: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114鈥� (PhD)
鈥� 鈥楢 revelation of purgatory to ane holy woman (1422).鈥� (MPhil)
鈥� 鈥楳agical rings in ...
Associate Professor
School of Metallurgy and Materials
- Oxide film defects in cast irons.
- The reduction in the deleterious effect of oxide film defects by the addition of molybdenum
Reader in Modern Languages
Department of Modern Languages
My main research interests are in German literature of the period 1750-1850, with a particular interest in how social and political tensions manifest themselves in German culture. I have also supervised doctoral work on German-language cinema and have a particular interest in contemporary German and Austrian film. I am currently supervising a number of PhD projects, on German-language writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. If you have a project ...
School Head of PGT
Associate Professor in Pedagogy
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Dr Griffiths is interested in supervising doctoral studies with a focus on professional development and socio-cultural approaches to learning, both within and beyond educational spaces.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Mark on m.griffiths@bham.ac.uk or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: dr@contacts.bham.ac.uk or call +44 (0)121 414 5005.