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 Suzanne Higgs

Professor Suzanne Higgs

Professor in the Psychobiology of Appetite
Head of the School of Psychology

School of Psychology

Current postgraduate students:

  • Madhronica Sardjoe Effects of exercise on Appetite and Cognition. Joint PhD with Maastricht University.
  • Elizabeth Schneider Interactions between cognitive and metabolic and reward processes in appetite control 2017-2020
  • Elizabeth Martin BBSRC MIBTP /P1vital funded 4 year CASE studentship ADHD and eating behaviours 2017-2020

Prospective students are always welcome to get in touch.

Dr Lisa J Hill

Dr Lisa J Hill

Associate Professor in Translational Neuroscience
Affiliated with the Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Affiliated with the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Dr Hill supervises Masters and PhD students in projects relating to:

  • Ocular inflammatory/fibrotic diseases
  • Degenerative diseases of the eye (AMD, Glaucoma)
  • Technologies to enhance ocular drug delivery
  • Tissue Engineering in vitro models of the eye
  • Assessing the efficacy of new therapies using pre-clinical models of ocular disease

If interested in undertaking research in Lisa’s laboratory, please contact her on l.j.hill@bham.ac.uk

Dr Lisa J Hill

Dr Lisa J Hill

Associate Professor in Translational Neuroscience
Affiliated with the Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Affiliated with the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Dr Hill supervises Masters and PhD students in projects relating to:

  • Ocular inflammatory/fibrotic diseases
  • Degenerative diseases of the eye (AMD, Glaucoma)
  • Technologies to enhance ocular drug delivery
  • Tissue Engineering in vitro models of the eye
  • Assessing the efficacy of new therapies using pre-clinical models of ocular disease

If interested in undertaking research in Lisa’s laboratory, please contact her on l.j.hill@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sarah Hillman

Dr Sarah Hillman

Clinical Associate Professor in Women鈥檚 Health and Primary Care
125 Anniversary Fellow

School of Health Sciences

women's health
primary care

Professor Stuart Hillmansen

Professor Stuart Hillmansen

Professor of Railway Traction Systems

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

  • 9 PhD students (4 as supervisor 5 as co-supervisor)
  • 2 MPhil students (1 as supervisor 1 as co-supervisor)

Professor Jason Hilton

Professor Jason Hilton

Professor of Palaeobotany and Palaeoenvironments
School Health and Safety Coordinator (fieldwork)

Life and Environmental Sciences

Dr Hilton welcomes enquiries from prospective Doctoral Researchers and Research Fellows in his areas of interest, especially:

(1) Morphological and anatomical investigations of exceptionally well-preserved fossil plants.
(2) Physical characterisation of sedimentary depositional environments to understand environmental and climate change in deep time.
(3) Evolutionary analysis of plant groups.
(4) Fossil floras from China.




Dr Thomas Hird

Dr Thomas Hird

Assistant Professor in Quantum Technologies

School of Physics and Astronomy

Currently recruiting for PhD students in Quantum Memories within atomic systems. This will require a combination of atomic and cold atom physics, quantum information, light-matter interactions and quantum optics. The work additionally has scope to optimise and enhance other aspects of quantum technologies from investigating optimised light-matter interactions, to sensing enhancement from distributed entanglement.

Dr Christine Hirsch

Dr Christine Hirsch

Honorary Associate Professor in Pharmacy

School of Pharmacy

Christine has provided supervision in the following areas:

  • Palliative care
  • Pharmacy education including inter-professional (IPE) healthcare education

Dr Nik Hodges

Dr Nik Hodges

Reader

School of Biosciences

For a list of possible PhD projects offered by Dr Hodges www.findaphd.com/search/customlink.asp?inst=birm-Biol&supersurname=Hodges

Professor Ron Hodges

Professor Ron Hodges

Emeritus Professor of Accounting

The Department of Accounting

Ron has retired from full-time research work and is no longer accepting new PhD students.

Dr James Hodgkinson

Dr James Hodgkinson

Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

James would be happy to supervise any projects which either:

  •  Use a systematic review methodology (any topic)
  •  Relate to blood pressure monitoring and/ or the diagnosis of hypertension (any methodology)

     

He would also be happy to discuss students’ own ideas in other areas especially – but not exclusively – projects which:

  • Consider the role of performance management (e.g. Quality and Outcomes Framework)
  • Relate to medicines management, patient beliefs about medicines, ...

Dr Andrew Hodgson

Dr Andrew Hodgson

Senior Lecturer in Poetry

Department of English Literature

Topics of recent and current supervision include: Seventeenth-Century Devotional Writing, Keats and Renaissance Literature, Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Pre-Raphaelites, Hopkins and Ecology, Myth in Postcolonial Poetry, Dorothy Wordsworth, Scottish Romantic Writing, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Poetic Identity, Romantic Canons.

I welcome enquiries about research supervision related to any of my areas of interest.