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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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Professor of Sikh Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
I have supervised a thesis on
• Issues of Religious Diversity affecting Visible minority ethnic personnel in the workplace
• A historical and theological evaluation of the Sikh Gurdwaras Act, 1925
Currently supervising
• Religion and Development – Faith-based organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Sikh Identity and practice: Re-examining the reconstruction of Sikh Identity and practice during 1880-1886
• ‘Dharam Nibhoana: The Duty of a Sikh’
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Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics
I am happy to discuss PhD project supervision with potential candidates; please email me if you are interested.

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 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), and University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ ...
Director of Research for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡)
Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist (University Hospital Birmingham)
School of Psychology
PhD supervision
I have provided research supervision to seven PhD students.
ClinPsyD Supervision
I have been the principal academic research supervisor for over 100 trainee clinical psychologists.
Masters and Under-Graduate Supervision
I have 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 proposals for doctoral research on the following:
French and British sculpture
Decorative arts and craft
Histories of galleries, museums and exhibitions
Approaches to curating