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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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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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UKAEA Joint Chair in Materials for Fusion
School of Metallurgy and Materials
If you are enthusiastic about nuclear fusion technologies and are interested in fusion materials research, or you pursue a career in nuclear or in metallurgy, please get in contact by email.

Professor of English Language
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am currently supervising several students working on academic discourse, the teaching of academic writing, identity in writing and academic writing development. I am interested in supervising PhD research in the areas of:
Academic discourse
English for academic purposes
Advanced academic literacy

Associate Professor in Social Anthropology and African Studies
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I welcome enquiries from students interested in gender relations, feminist anthropology, development, and legal anthropology.

Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutics
School of Pharmacy
Litty is interested in supervising research projects in the following areas:
- Nanomedicine
- Protein drug delivery
- mRNA delivery
- Immune modulation
- Vaccine and drug delivery systems

Assistant Professor
Department of Social Work and Social Care
Andy welcomes proposals for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the following areas:
- Household Food Security in the UK
- Bordering Practices in Social Work and Social Care
- Child Poverty
- Social Work with Refugee and Migrant Populations
- Participatory and community research methods

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Kate is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Behavioural change programmes for rehabilitation and self-management of long-term conditions, and primary prevention of disease in the whole population and minority ethnic groups
- Evaluation of lay or peer support or home-based interventions.
- Interventions to support breastfeeding.

Assistant Professor
The Department of Accounting
Bisola is interested in PhD applications from the following areas:
- Role of accounting in sustainable development
- The Accounting profession and its change processes
- Accounting, accountability, and sustainability issues in developing economies/contexts

Associate Professor in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
School of Pharmacy
The Jones research group has been funded by Children with Cancer UK, BISCA, the Wellcome Trust (UK), CRISM Therapeutics/Imphatec Ltd (Industry UK/Ireland), Medical Research Council (UK), the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), CAPES (Brazil), Bolashak Foundation (Kazakhstan), LPDP (Indonesia), EJSP (Saudi Arabia), UNESP (Brazil), Erasmus+ mobility programme (EU), British Council (UK Govt), Science without Borders (Brazil), the Government of Botswana (Botswana), the Royal Society (London), King Khalid University (Saudi Arabia), ...
Director of Research for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (University 麻豆精选)
Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist (University Hospital Birmingham)
School of Psychology
PhD supervision
He provides research supervision to seven PhD students.
ClinPsyD Supervision
He has been the principal academic research supervisor for over 100 trainee clinical psychologists.
Masters and Under-Graduate Supervision
He has provided research supervision to a number of MRes in Clinical Psychology (10+) students over the years, and to a large number of BSc (Hons) Psychology students (25+).

Associate Professor in History of Art
Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
I welcome enquiries from prospective postgraduate research students with interests in French and British sculpture, particularly of the 19th century; the decorative arts, craft, and discourses around makers, materials and making; curatorial practices, and histories of galleries, museums and exhibitions.
Current research students:
- Wei-Chieh Tsai, Art Intervention and Post-industrial Urban Transformation: The Social Practices 麻豆精选's Cultural Intermediaries, 2024- (co-supervised with Professor Phil Jones/Geography and Michaela Giebelhausen/Art History)
- ...

Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
- Maternal health
- Postnatal care
- Perinatal mental health

Professor of Qualitative and Mixed Methods Women鈥檚 Health Research
Public Health and Women鈥檚 Health Team Lead Department of Applied Health Sciences
Deputy Director of Post Graduate Studies (Mental Health and Wellbeing) College of Medicine and Health
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Laura is interested in supervising doctoral researchers in the following general research areas:
- Qualitative and/or mixed methods exploring aspects of women’s health, maternal health, and/or maternity care
- Qualitative and/or mixed methods exploring sensitive/challenging health issues with underserved populations
- The use of qualitative and mixed methodologies within and/or alongside clinical trials.