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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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Associate Professor
School of Education
Dr Gulliford has experience of working with postgraduate students and has supervised PhDs to completion. She would be interested in supervising doctoral students in the fields of moral education, character education, positive education, well-being, and specific virtues.
Reader in Modern History
Department of History
Modern Central and Eastern Europe
Contemporary Insurgency
The Era of the World Wars
International Law
War and Society in 20th Century America
War and Society in Modern Europe
Reader in English Literature
Department of English Literature
I welcome applications for PhD study in the area of 21st-century Anglophone literature.
Current and former PhD supervisions in which I鈥檝e been involved include:
A micro-history of black Handsworth
Local and global identities in the contemporary Irish novel
Arab-American Drama
Narrative and Identity in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro
Feminisms in the New Nigerian Novel
The marketing of mixed-race identity in British publishing
Gender Politics in expatriate Arabian Gulf fiction ...
Associate Professor in Nursing
Lead for Internationalisation
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Palliative and end of life care
Nursing intervention studies
Associate Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
Quanmin Guo鈥檚 research focuses on physical processes at the nanometre scale. Fundamental physical processes such as atomic diffusion, molecular recognition and self-organisation on solid surfaces are investigated using scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and electron spectroscopic techniques.
Dr Guo's recent and ongoing research projects include:
Physics of zero-gradient stepped surfaces
Assembly of molecular monolayers
Nanoscale fabrication based on nanosphere lithography
Honorary Clinical Professor
Honorary Consultant at Birmingham Women鈥檚 and Children鈥檚 NHS Foundation Trust
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Professor Gupta is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Abnormal uterine bleeding
- Endometriosis
- Endometrial hyperplasia
- Ambulatory hysteroscopy care
- Abortion
- Enhanced recovery
Lecturer in Materials Modelling
School of Metallurgy and Materials
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Senior Lecturer
School of Mathematics
Susana is interested in supervising doctoral research students in Euclidean Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations.