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 Enrique Jimenez-Melero

Professor Enrique Jimenez-Melero

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 Suganthi John

Professor Suganthi John

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



Dr Jessica Johnson

Dr Jessica Johnson

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.

Dr Litty Johnson

Dr Litty Johnson

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

Dr Andrew Jolly

Dr Andrew Jolly

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 Kate Jolly

Professor Kate Jolly

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. 

 

Dr Bisola Joloko

Dr Bisola Joloko

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

Dr Alan M Jones

Dr Alan M Jones

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), ...

Dr Christopher Jones

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+).

Dr Claire Jones

Dr Claire Jones

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)
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Dr Ellie Jones

Dr Ellie Jones

Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

  • Maternal health
  • Postnatal care
  • Perinatal mental health

Professor Laura Jones

Professor Laura Jones

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.