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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Professor Michael John Hannon

Professor Michael John Hannon

Professor of Chemical Biology

School of Chemistry

Opportunities are available for doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Imaging Chemistry for Biology and Medicine
  • Molecular Probe Design
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry
  • Metal-based Drugs
  • DNA Recognition
  • Biological Chemistry and Chemical Biology
  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Physical Sciences of Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas, please contact Professor Hannon or his PA on the contact details above.

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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鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Professor Louise Hardwick

Professor Louise Hardwick

Professor of Francophone Studies and World Literature
AHRC Early Career Leadership Fellow
Associate Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge

Department of Modern Languages

I lead a lively group of PhD students working on a range of PhD programmes, including our established traditional PhD routes, and our recent addition, the PhD in Translation Studies practice-based route.

I also offer teaching and dissertation supervision for a number of MA-level courses.

Broadly speaking, my expertise falls into the areas of Francophone Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Comparative Studies, World Literature, Sexuality and Gender Studies, and Translation Studies. My ...



Dr Shamil Haroon

Dr Shamil Haroon

Associate Clinical Professor of Public Health

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Respiratory and chronic disease epidemiology.

Professor Lorraine Harper

Professor Lorraine Harper

Professor of Nephrology

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Lorraine is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Genetic predictors of outcome in ANCA associated vasculitis
  • Role of BlyS in ANCA-associated vasculitis
  • Investigation of factors determining fatigue in ANCA associated vasculitis
  • Predictors of secondary immunodeficiency in ANCA associated vasculitis
  • The role of glomerular podocytes in the regulating platelet and leukocyte recruitment to glomerular endothelial cells

If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas ...

Professor Stuart Harrad

Professor Stuart Harrad

Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Stuart Harrad鈥檚 specific research foci are: the assessment of human exposure with persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and its impacts on environmental and human health. This covers pollution of a wide range of environmental matrices, e.g.: air (indoor and outdoor), indoor dust, food, human and wildlife tissues, sediment, and soil. Particular foci in recent years have been the presence of POPs in the waste stream and the implications for the Circular ...

Dr Guy Harrington

Dr Guy Harrington

Honorary Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

PhD students

  • 2015 - present: Co-supervisor (with Dr Tom Dunkley-Jones) of Ph.D. candidate Marcelo Mota on a thesis examining the palynology of the late Eocene and Oligocene of the US Gulf Coast and Brazil.
  • 2012- 2016: First supervisor (with Prof. Jon Sadler and Dr Carlos Jaramillo, STRI) of Ph.D. candidate Carlos D’Apolito on a thesis examining Miocene biodiversification of the Amazon Basin using pollen and spores.
  • 2009-2013: Co-supervisor (with Dr ...

Professor Alexandra Harris

Professor Alexandra Harris

Birmingham Professorial Fellow

Department of English Literature

I am interested in work on place and locality; literature in relation to art, architecture and landscape; seasonality and ceremony; literary inheritance across time; twentieth-century British art and literature.

Dr Paul Harrison

Dr Paul Harrison

Senior Lecturer

Department of Inflammation and Ageing

Paul Harrison is the Scar free Foundation Senior Lecturer within the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing. Dr Harrison is researching into the influence of traumatic injury and burns on the systemic inflammatory response with a particular focus on haemostatic and thrombotic parameters. He is also a member of the Birmingham platelet group.

Current PhD projects include :-
1) Measurement of preplatelets in inherited and acquired thrombocytopenia
2) Neutrophil Extracellular Traps ...



Professor Roy Harrison

Professor Roy Harrison

Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental Health

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Roy Harrison has carried out pioneering research in: airborne particle concentrations and numbers in the UK; characterisation of emission and impact of ultrafine particulate matter; measurement and modelling of exposure to air toxics and verification by biomarker; high time-resolution chemical fingerprinting of particulate emissions from the steel industry; and the relationship of ultrafine and fine particles in indoor and outdoor respiratory health. Professor Harrison's recent research projects include:

Artificial chemical ...

Professor Tom Harrison

Professor Tom Harrison

Professor of Education and Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor: Education Innovation
Director: Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues

School of Education

Tom supervises a number of students and his research interests include:

  • Character
  • Virtue
  • Citizenship
  • Cyber-phronesis
  • Youth social action

 

Dr Dan Hart

Assistant Professor

Department of Management

  • Leadership