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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Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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. 

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ results for “health care law”

Professor Nicola Gale

Professor Nicola Gale

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 Jean V. McHale

Professor of Health Care Law

Birmingham Law School

Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,

Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research






Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research

Birmingham Law School

Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law



Dr Kirsty Moreton

Dr Kirsty Moreton

Associate Professor in Law

Birmingham Law School

Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

Professor Rosie Harding

Professor Rosie Harding

Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean

Birmingham Law School

Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:

- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods
Director, NIHR Research Support Service National Collaborative
Director NIHR Research Support Service Birmingham Hub and partners Keele, and Warwick

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Professor Thomas is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following general areas:

  • Determinants of cardiometabolic disease, particularly atrial fibrillation,  morbidity and mortality.
  • Approaches to attenuate cardiometabolic disease and associated risk factors and improve care pathways for their management.
  • Health consequences of air pollution.

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Thomas on the contact details above or through FindAPhD.com.

Professor Thomas has ...

Dr Benjamin Costello

Dr Benjamin Costello

Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Ben is interested in supervising students in the areas of qualitative research related to mental health, applied health research, and ethics (including applied/practical ethics). He currently supervises students on qualitative research projects.

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor of Law and Political Economy

Birmingham Law School

I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation





Professor KK Cheng

Professor KK Cheng

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care

Department of Applied Health Sciences

KK has supervised over 20 doctoral students at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡. Important examples of publications arising from their theses include:

Li B, Pallan M, Liu WJ, Hemming K, Frew E, Lin R, Liu W, Martin J, Zanganeh M, Hurley K, Cheng KK, Adab P. The CHIRPY DRAGON intervention in preventing obesity in Chinese primary-school--aged children: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2019 Nov 26;16(11):e1002971. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002971. (this was one of ...

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Honorary Professor

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Primary Supervision

Completed

  • PhD Pundir J (2016-2022) Interventions to improve fertility outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
  • PhD A Hamilton (2013-2019) Views of women and healthcare professionals on lifestyle interventions in pregnancy
  • PhD B Wattar - (2013-2017) - Improving health outcomes for pregnant women with metabolic risk factors
  • PhD J Allotey (2014-2018) Improving the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
  • PhD E Rogozinska (2014-2017) Diet and physical activity based interventions for antenatal ...

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Associate Professor

Health Services Management Centre

PhD Supervision Interests

Sexual Health in children and young people
Sexual behaviours in children and young people
Evaluation of policy and programmes
Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties






Dr Jonathan (Jon) Ives

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Jonathan is currently supervising two PhD students:

  • Derek Kyte (2011 – 2014; FT) The Methodological and Ethical Issues Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Clinical Trials
  • Bert Vanderhaegen (2013 - 2019; PT) A Critical Reflection upon the Nature, Limits and Impact of Empirical Ethics’

Former PhD students are:

  • Greg Moorlock (2009-2012; FT)  An empirically informed ethical analysis of directed and conditional cadaveric organ donation. Awarded in 2012.
  • Simon Jenkins ...

Professor Nicola Gale

Professor Nicola Gale

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 Joseph Galea

Professor Joseph Galea

Professor of Motor Neuroscience
Head of Research

School of Psychology

Potential postgraduate students should email me to discuss funding opportunities.

Dr Daniel Gallacher

Dr Daniel Gallacher

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.

Dr Meurig Thomas Gallagher

Dr Meurig Thomas Gallagher

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 ...

Dr Meurig Thomas Gallagher

Dr Meurig Thomas Gallagher

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 ...

Dr Isabel Galleymore

Dr Isabel Galleymore

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Department of Film and Creative Writing

I would be interested in proposals regarding ecopoetics, environmental writing, and interdisciplinary practice.

Dr Alessio Gallina

Dr Alessio Gallina

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.

 

Professor Ioannis D Gallos

Professor Ioannis D Gallos

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.

Dr Charlotte Galpin

Dr Charlotte Galpin

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 Aga Gambus

Professor Aga Gambus

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



Dr Dimitri M Gangardt

Reader in Theoretical Physics

School of Physics and Astronomy

  • Supervision of research PhDs in Theoretical Physics

 

Dr David Gange

Dr David Gange

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.