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 Hugh Houghton

Professor Hugh Houghton

Professor of New Testament Textual Scholarship
Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing

Department of Theology and Religion

The manuscripts and textual history of the New Testament

Professor Matt Houlbrook

Professor Matt Houlbrook

Professor of Cultural History

Department of History

I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you鈥檙e interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...

Dr Richard House

Dr Richard House

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

Department of Film and Creative Writing

I supervise research students in long-form fiction and screenwriting, and I have an interest in writing for new forms (performance, live art, and for digital platforms).

Dr Ruth Howard

Dr Ruth Howard

Honorary Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology

School of Psychology

I currently co-supervise ClinPsyD projects on the psychological aspects of the autoimmune condition coeliac disease, and in the area of transgender identities and the lived experience of transition and de-transition.  I am no longer in a position to offer PhD supervision.

Emeritus Professor Vic Hoyland

Professor in Composition

Department of Music

Composition at all levels, including PhD, over a 25 year period.


Find out more - our Music postgraduate study  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Professor Linda Hsieh

Professor Linda Hsieh

Professor of International Business
Head of the Department of Strategy and International Business

The Department of Strategy and International Business

Linda would be interested in supervising PhDs in the areas of internationalization of firms and strategic alliances.

Dr Weiqi Hua

Dr Weiqi Hua

Assistant Professor in Energy Systems

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

i) Digitalisation of Energy Systems.
ii) Energy System Modelling.

Dr Jing Huang

Dr Jing Huang

Assistant Professor
Deputy Director for MA Campus-based Programmes

Department of Linguistics and Communication

I am interested in supervising PhD research in these areas:
Interactional sociolinguistics
Critical discourse analysis
Cross- or inter-cultural communication
Education of English as a global language





Dr Shan Huang

Dr Shan Huang

Assistant Professor in Paleobiology

Shan is happy to supervise projects on large-scale dynamics of biodiversity, from the deep-time history to the future, especially:
- the ecology and evolution of body size
- extinction mechanisms
- morphological consequences of extinctions
- the future of our blue food
- macroecology in parasites




Dr Damon Huber

Dr Damon Huber

Assistant Professor in Biochemistry

School of Biosciences

Postgraduate students interested in pursuing a Master’s or PhD in Damon’s group are encouraged to visit http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=43831&LID=124 or to contact him directly by email at D.Huber@bham.ac.uk.

Research council studentships are available to UK applicants and are awarded yearly by the School of Biosciences on a competitive basis. EU residents of the UK may also be eligible for these studentships. Other sources of funding, including studentships from the Darwin Trust, may be available ...

Professor Anthea Hucklesby

Professor Anthea Hucklesby

Professor of Criminal Justice

Birmingham Law School

Anthea has supervised research students in many aspects of criminal justice in the UK and internationally. She welcomes applications from UK and international students interested in any area of criminal justice including, but not limited to, electronic monitoring, pre-trial detention and bail, police powers, courts, prisons, community sentences, technologies and private and voluntary sector involvement in criminal justice.

Professor Anthea Hucklesby

Professor Anthea Hucklesby

Professor of Criminal Justice

School of Social Policy and Society

Anthea has supervised research students in many aspects of criminal justice in the UK and internationally. She welcomes applications from UK and international students interested in any area of criminal justice including, but not limited to, electronic monitoring, pre-trial detention and bail, police powers, courts, prisons, community sentences, technologies and private and voluntary sector involvement in criminal justice.