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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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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 Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement

Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.

Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories

Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights
Department of English Literature
• Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
• Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
• Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory

Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
• Third World Approaches to International Law
• Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
• Critical Approaches to Human Rights
• Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
• Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
• Law and Abolitionist Praxis

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 ...

Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
• International and comparative human rights law
• Socio-economic rights
• Decolonization of law and justice
• Critical approaches to human rights

Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights

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 ...

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 in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.

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.