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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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Associate Professor in Economics
Director of MSc. International Economics and Development Economics and Economic Policy (including Admissions)
The Department of Economics
Michael Henry鈥檚 research interests cover empirical analyses of productivity and labour market effects of trade and investment liberalisation in developed and developing countries, both at the macro and microeconomic levels. Additionally, his work involves the utilisation of household-level data to investigate issues such as youth unemployment, poverty and inequality, and the evaluation of conditional cash transfer programmes.
Associate Professor in Nineteenth Century Literature
Department of English Literature
I welcome enquiries about research supervision in the following areas: Henry James, John Keats and his circle, life-writing from the Romantic period to the early twentieth century, literary editing, revision and textual history, collective editions, historical fiction, and the letters of nineteenth-century authors.
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Current PhD students:
- Sak Sittichompoo (effect of on-board hydrogen production from ammonia decomposition on performance and emissions of gasoline direct injection engines). University 麻豆精选, 2017
- Ammar Wahbi (after treatment systems for natural gas fuelled engines). University 麻豆精选, 2017
- Paolo Grasso (swarm of self-organising drones aimed at fighting wildfires) in collaboration with Dr Mauro Innocente at Coventry University, 2017
- Zihao Liu (mission dependent engine predictive control aiming for improved ...
Assistant Professor in Exercise Prescription
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Liza Mohd Salleh – Physical activity and sedentary behaviour in pregnant women with gestational diabetes
Joe Jenkins – Effect of breaking up sitting on glucose and cardiovascular outcomes for individuals with type 1 diabetes
Theodora Papanikolaou - Exploring the effect of lifestyle on progression of pre-type 1 diabetes (EXTEND-IT)
Thomas Grimmant – Development of an physical activity intervention for individuals identified with pre-type 1 diabetes (EXTEND-IT)
Lecturer
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Peter is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Identification of pathways controlling vascular growth factor/receptor activity in the endothelium and response to vascular insult (ox-stress, hyperglycaemia)
- Transcriptional regulation of endothelial-restricted genes
- Molecular mechanisms regulating endometrial decidualisation and angiogenesis and their effects on implantation/placental development and perturbation in preeclampsia
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Pete on the contact details ...
Associate Professor
Head of Department of Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN)
School of Education
Vision impairment
Inclusion in higher education
Post school transitions
Life course
Longitudinal studies
Professor of Molecular Endocrinology
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Senior Lecturer in American and Canadian Studies
Department of History
Dr Hewitt is interested in supervising doctoral research on topics related to security and intelligence, counter-terrorism including domestic counter-terrorism in the UK and US, anti-Americanism and Canadian history and politics.
Professor of Environmental Economics
The Department of Economics
Anthony Heyes is an enthusiastic and “hands on” supervisor. I work closely with students, often co-authoring at least one research paper for external publication, and have supervised more than 10 PhD students through to completion. I am happy to be named as prospective supervisor if you are interested in working on theoretical or empirical topics in any of the areas listed below - looking under the “Publications” tab on this ...
Associate Professor
BSc Neuroscience Programme Lead
School of Psychology
Dr Hickey is always interested in talking to potential students and postdoctoral fellows. Please do not hesitate to contact him via email.
Professor of Neurogenetics
Director, Birmingham Centre for Neurogenetics
School of Biosciences
PhD projects are offered in the general area of Developmental Neurobiology using the fruit-fly Drosophila as a model organism. Currently we are working in the areas of regeneration, neurotrophic factors and structural plasticity. We look at genes, molecules, neurons and glia in these contexts. Technical approaches include genetics, confocal microscopy, molecular biology and cell culture. We also collaborate with neurobiologists using mammals as model organisms, with biochemists, with electrophysiologists and with ...
Associate Professor for Genomics and Rare Disease
Deputy Director, Centre for Rare Disease Studies
Department EDI Lead
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Martin’s interests are in the cellular response to DNA damage, and examining the role of lysine methylation in this process. He is also interested in examining the impact of mutations in lysine methylation pathways on human health.
Martin is currently supervising doctoral and master’s students in studying how lysine methylation regulates cancer therapeutic efficacy and DNA repair. Previous students have gone on to further academic study, careers in life sciences, ...