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 of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Birmingham Law School
Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.
Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.
Current PhD students
鈥� Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...
Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...
Associate Professor in Law
Programme Director, Online LLM in Energy and Environmental Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Nsoh is happy to supervise within the following broad areas:
Innovative approaches such as conservation covenants, payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsets in conservation
Biodiversity and nature conservation law
Property (land) rights, land use, land tenure and livelihoods
Forest ownership and sustainability
Regulation of natural resources
Ecosystem services
Indigenous rights
Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Sandra is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
German Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
European Union Law
Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting an official application.
Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law
Associate Professor
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice
School of Biosciences
Dr Scott Glaberman's lab is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:
- Leveraging evolutionary principles to understand species sensitivity to chemicals
- Analysing toxicology data within a One Health framework using big data approaches
- Developing nematodes (including C. elegans) as model organisms in toxicology
- Advancing environmental monitoring of contaminants through risk-based approaches
- Reimagining risk assessment practices for environmental contaminants
Investigating evolutionary mechanisms of cancer resistance and ...
Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
* Transitional justice
* Resilience
* War and armed conflict
* Environmental impacts of war
* Posthumanism
Professor of Cerebrovascular, Exercise & Environmental Physiology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Professor Lucas has supervised numerous research Masters and PhD students in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, and Postdoctoral Fellows at UoB. As both a primary and co-supervisor Prof Lucas has 16 PhD and 13 MSc (research) completions, and currently co/supervises 10 PhD and 4 MSc (research) students. The details of his graduate student supervision and the subjects/areas of work are listed below:
Postdoctoral Fellows
2023- Dr Jun ...
Professor of Economics
Director of Research - Department of Economics
Business School
Professor Elliott is available to supervise PhD students across a broad range of topics including international and development economics and environmental and energy economics. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged and students will need to be familar with the manipulation of large data sets and econometric techniques and methods.
Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics
Any area of Environmental or Natural Resource Economics
Research Fellow
(Guest Lecturer)
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Doctoral Research supervision:
Doctoral Researcher: Juliana Antunes de Azevedo
Topic: Urban Heat and Energy Demand: Application of an urban meteorological network
This doctoral research will analyse the temporal and spatial variability 麻豆精选's UHI and its relationship with household energy consumption using high-resolution meteorological data from BUCL, MODIS and Landsat ETM+ data and Energy Consumption data.
Supervisor: Dr. Lee Chapman
Co-supervisor: Dr. Catherine L. Muller
MSc dissertation supervision (various ...
Associate Professor
Director of the Health Data Science Programme in Dubai
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Graduate students with strong computational skills who are interested in pursuing their MSc thesis in the group, as well as students who have secured funding and are interested in joining the group to pursue a PhD, are invited to send their CV and their topic of interest to m.haber@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Sophie is currently supervising seven PhD students.
She would be interested to hear from potential PhD candidates in the fields of geographies of children and young people, urbanism and sustainable living across various geographical contexts.
Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I am keen to supervise postgraduate students who wish to work on topics related to Greek literature (across all genres) and Greek cultural and intellectual history, including the interaction of poetry with philosophy (Plato), and interdisciplinary approaches to literature.
Current doctoral projects supervised:
Primary supervisor
(1) 'A Harmony of Opposition: Poetry and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues'
(2) 'The Lyre and the Bow: A Complementary Duality'
Assistant Professor in Social Work
Department of Social Work and Social Care
Deborah has supervised a number of students undertaking MA dissertations. The supervision of PhD students is an area of interest and something she would like to develop in the future.
Reader in Social Policy
Director of Global Engagement for the School of Social Policy and Society
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Kelly currently supervises PhD students in a number of areas of social policy. She has particular expertise in the areas of social care, social enterprise, the third sector, international retirement migration, ageing and participatory research.
Chair of Microbiome Research
Institute of Microbiology and Infection
Prof Hall has a distinguished record of guiding and nurturing postgraduate scholars through their academic journeys. She welcomes aspiring students who share her deep enthusiasm for the captivating realm of microbiome research. Specifically, Lindsay is keen to collaborate with those driven by curiosity for unravelling the intricate mechanisms by which beneficial microbes communicate with their host. Additionally, she seeks students who share her interest about the dynamic interactions among microorganisms, ...
Senior Lecturer in Project and Operations Management
Department of Management
Mark is interested in supervising PhDs in the field of project management, with a focus on risk and opportunity management and theoretical perspectives on practitioner behaviour.
Associate Professor, Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD)
Head of Part Time Postgraduate Programmes in the School of Education
School of Education
Neil has been a co-supervisor for a range of PhD and EdD students who have successfully completed their doctoral degrees on SEBD and SEND topics - these include: the attachment friendly classroom; SEBD and outdoor education; SEBD provision in Kenya; neglected children; and, specifically, in relation to Saudi Arabia: teachers’ perceptions of using ICT with students with learning disabilities; obstacles facing the implementation of including children with SEN in primary ...
Emeritus Professor
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Professor Hall has supervised research in the following areas
- Body area networks
- Cognitive radio antennas
- Reconfigurable antennas
- Active antennas
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Hall on the contact details above.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes
Rebecca regularly supervises PGRs on projects relating to AMR.
Reader in Religious Education
Director of Postgraduate Taught programmes for the College of Social Sciences
School of Education
Religious Education
Literary theory and re-reading narrative within Biblical texts especially through a feminist lens
RSE (Relationship and Sex Education): policy and school context
PSHE (Personal, Social, Health Education): policy and school context including work on RSE and Mental Health
Associate Professor of Mental Health Nursing
School of Nursing and Midwifery
鈼� Coercion in mental healthcare
鈼� Restorative justice in mental health
鈼� Reducing restrictive interventions