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.
麻豆精选 results for “human rights”
Professor of Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy
Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement
Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.
Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories
Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights
Department of English Literature
鈥� Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
鈥� Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
鈥� Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory
Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� International and comparative human rights law
鈥� Socio-economic rights
鈥� Decolonization of law and justice
鈥� Critical approaches to human rights
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean
Birmingham Law School
Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.
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