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.
麻豆精选 results for “constitutional law”
Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law
Current doctoral supervision:
Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation
Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...
Professor of European Law and Policy
Director, Institute of European Law
Associate Dean 麻豆精选 Law School
Birmingham Law School
European Law
European defence and security integration
Public procurement
Professor Trybus provides doctoral supervision and supervision for other research degrees offered by the University 麻豆精选. Particular areas of expertise and interest include public procurement law and policy generally (not only in relation to the EU) and European law and policy, especially in relation to defence integration.
He has supervised research students undertaking research in the following areas:
Barriers to ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥� Constitutional theory
鈥� Legal/political philosophy
鈥� Public law
鈥� Human rights law
鈥� Housing law
Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.
Current PhD students:
Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review
Past PhD students:
Sylvester ...
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥�, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:
The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Sandra is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
German Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
European Union Law
Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting an official application.
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� International and comparative human rights law
鈥� Socio-economic rights
鈥� Decolonization of law and justice
鈥� Critical approaches to human rights
Reader in Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School
European Criminal Law
European Criminal Justice
Comparative criminal and criminal procedure law
Structural Developments in Criminal Justice
Terrorism 鈥� Phenomena and Responses
Trafficking Human Beings
Current doctoral students:
The Challenges Associated with Identifying Victims of Trafficking Human Beings 鈥� Matthew Davis
The Suitability of Trial by Jury for Trafficking in Persons Cases 鈥� Jack Murphy
Professor of Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
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 of Motor Neuroscience
Head of Research
School of Psychology
Potential postgraduate students should email me to discuss funding opportunities.
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.
Assistant Professor
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 ...
Assistant Professor
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 ...
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Department of Film and Creative Writing
I would be interested in proposals regarding ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice.
Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Dr Gallina is interested in supervising master and PhD students in the following areas:
- Neuromuscular control
- Musculoskeletal pain
- Rehabilitation
- Techniques for electrophysiology
- Neuromechanics
If you are interested in any of the topics above, please contact Dr Gallina at the contact details above.
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.
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 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
Reader in Theoretical Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
- Supervision of research PhDs in Theoretical Physics
Senior Lecturer in History
Department of History
I teach MA dissertations every year and currently have seven PhD students, researching a wide range of themes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. I particularly encourage contact from anyone with interest in the modern histories of the islands and coastlines of Britain and Ireland.