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. 

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Professor Karen Harvey

Professor Karen Harvey

Professor of Cultural History
Deputy Head of the School of History and Cultures

Department of History

I offer PhD supervision in several areas of eighteenth-century British history, particularly cultural and social history and the history of gender. I welcome collaborations with external partners. I am currently supervising PhDs including ones on women landowners in Shropshire, 1760-1860 (Sara Downs), black women in eighteenth-century England (Montaz Marche), curiosity in the eighteenth century (Jenni Dixon), women in seventeenth-century ballads (Eleanor Sutton) and experiences of separation in East India Company ...

Alys Harwood

Senior Lecturer

Health Services Management Centre

EGA MSc in Healthcare Leadership Supervision, five cohorts, 2014 to present

Dr Louise Hassan

Associate Professor in Marketing

Department of Marketing

Current research topics of interest include:

  • Consumer behaviour in relation to responsible consumption, risky consumption or consumer protection
  • Social marketing
  • Identity marketing
  • Information processing
  • Consumer decision-making
  • Cross-cultural consumer behaviour

Dr Zaki Hassan-Smith

Dr Zaki Hassan-Smith

Honorary Clinical Associate Professor
Consultant Endocrinologist
NIHR WM CRN Research Scholar,

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Secondary supervisor on sarcopenia PhD thesis.

Dr Sophie Hatchwell

Dr Sophie Hatchwell

Associate Professor in History of Art

Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies

I would welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate students hoping to undertake research relating to my interests in the interrelationship of word and image, art theory and criticism in the 19th and 20th centuries, art and literature, 20th Century British art, art and intertextuality, and display, spectatorship and phenomenology.

Professor Tim Haughton

Professor Tim Haughton

Professor of Comparative and European Politics
Deputy Director of the Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR)

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Professor Haughton has supervised 13 doctoral researchers through to the completion of their PhDs: Dr Bernd Rechel's PhD thesis, 'Minority Rights in Post-Communist Bulgaria'; Dr Brigid Fowler's thesis examining EU accession and party politics in Hungary; Dr William Westwater's thesis on regional legislatures in Russia; Dr Magdalena Skrybant's thesis exploring the relationship between the intellectuals and workers in the Solidarity movement in Poland; Dr Lara Scarpitta's thesis examining Romanian accession ...

Professor Mike Hawkins

Professor Mike Hawkins

Chair in Epidemiology
Director of Centre

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Mike Hawkins continues to supervise doctoral research students investigating questions which arise as a consequence of our increasing success in treating cancer, in particular:

  • research aimed at quantifying the risks of particular adverse health and social outcomes experienced by specific groups of cancer survivors;
  • research aimed at understanding the underlying causes of increased risks of particular adverse outcomes experienced by specific groups of cancer survivors.

Dr Christopher Haworth

Dr Christopher Haworth

Senior Lecturer in Music (20th / 21st Century Musical Studies)

Department of Music

I am interested in hearing from potential PhD students with interests in any of the areas listed under my research and supervision.

• Experimental music, electronic music, media art, sound art
• History and critical theory of music technology
• Digital musicology
• British popular music
• Music and politics
• Practice-based research in above areas

I am currently the lead supervisor for:

• Gary Charles: ‘Composing Infinity: Speculative futures ...










Dr Simon Haworth

Lecturer

Department of Social Work and Social Care

Simon welcomes enquires and applications from prospective candidates, notably those focussed on children and families social work.

Dr Farzad Hayati

Dr Farzad Hayati

Assistant Professor

School of Engineering

Farzad supervises PhD projects relating to Opto-Electromechanical and PNT systems in school of Engineering, including interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with civil engineering and school of physics. If you are interested in pursuing a related project, please get in touch.

 

Dr Matt Hayler

Dr Matt Hayler

Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Digital Cultures

Department of English Literature

I currently supervise doctoral students working on: glitch, post-/unhumanism, and VR; videogame studies; weird fiction and object-oriented ontology; cyberpunk and embodiment; competing feminist and alt-right communities online; metafiction and autopoiesis; and posthumanism and human enhancement.

I’m keen to hear from any prospective students with interests in or related to: posthumanism; transhumanism and human enhancement; technology studies; electronic reading and the materiality of text; digital cultures and digital humanities; phenomenology and ...

Dr Jason Haynes

Dr Jason Haynes

Associate Professor of Law
Deputy Head of Postgraduate Research & PGR Mentor

Birmingham Law School

Anti-Human Trafficking Law
International Investment Law
Sports Law