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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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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.
Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics
School of Pharmacy
Dr Jones in interested in supervising projects in the following areas:
Drug delivery
Gene delivery
Nanotoxicology
Particokinetics
Senior Lecturer
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Nick is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- The role of invariant NKT cells in the immune response to transplants
- Identification of different invariant NKT cell subsets for use as a cellular therapy to combat rejection
- Dissection of the mechanisms utilised by immunoregulatory cells to attenuate rejection and graft versus host disease
- ILCs and transplantation
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please ...
Professor of Nuclear Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
Supervision of research degrees in nuclear physics. Past students’ topics include:
- Strange particle spectra in Pb-Pb collisions at CERN (1998)
- Strange particle production in Au-Au collisions at RHIC (2002)
- Strange particle production in p-p collisions at RHIC (2005)
- A study of jets at the STAR experiment at RHIC (2008)
- Neutral strange particle production in Cu-Cu collisions at RHIC (2008)
- Transverse spin asymmetries in neutral strange particle production (2009)
- A study ...
Professor in Cultural Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Phil runs a 'Playful Methods' Lab bringing together the activity of his PhD students, visiting fellows and postdoctoral researchers. He is keen to supervise students with an interest in qualitative methods exploring topics such as: embodiment (particularly around walking and cycling); urban development and regeneration; cultural and arts activity.
Professor Jones welcomes formal and informal enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in his areas of interest.
Honorary Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
- Gary Yates (PhD)
- Alun Williams (MSc)
- Andrew Ewbank (PhD)
- Daniel Hodson (PhD)
- Pekik Nurwantoro (PhD)
- Constantinos Constantinou (PhD)
- Paul Hollister (PhD)
Assistant Professor in Sustainable Polymer Chemistry
School of Chemistry
- Find a PhD - Developing the next generation of broad-spectrum antiviral polymers
- Find a PhD - Development of a DNA amplification-free assay for pathogen detection
Professor of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Department of Modern Languages
Professor Jones is always happy to hear from potential postgraduate students looking to work in the fields of the social and cultural history of state socialism, post-socialist memory practices, and interdisciplinary approaches to testimony and memory. She is especially interested in projects that take a transnational, comparative and cross-media approach.
Professor Jones currently supervises nine doctoral research projects:
Jonathan Conde (with Klaus Richter): An examination of Lithuanian nationalism
Vanessa Favali ...
Professor in Musculoskeletal Ageing
Theme Lead for Ageing and Frailty
NIHR Birmingham Research Centre Theme Co-Lead, Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research Deputy Director
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Professor Simon Jones's research interests include the inflammatory and metabolic mechanisms that drive osteoarthritis pathology, the role of skeletal muscle dysfunction and atrophy in chronic disease and understanding the functional role of non-coding RNAs in mediating inflammatory responses.
Prof Jones's current research projects include:
1. The role of synovial fibroblasts in mediating joint pain in patients with osteoarthritis. In collaboration with Prof Chapman (University of Nottingham) and Eli Lilly Global ...
Senior Lecturer in Earth Systems
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Stephen M Jones is working on the following projects:
Relationships between the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum global climate change event, the North Atlantic Large Igneous Province and underlying Icelandic mantle convection system (C-FORCE project).
Temporal variability in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and links with global climate change (DenGate project).
Understanding Greenland Ice Sheet vulnerability, especially by understanding how the Greenlandic and Icelandic ice sheets grew during intensification of the Northern Hemisphere ...
Assistant Professor
School of Psychology
I am interested in supervising students at all levels (undergraduate, Master’s and PhD), international fellows and visiting researchers, as well as volunteers on work that aligns with my programme of research described above. I am especially interested in supervising/co-supervising students who have lived experience of mental health challenges or are from other underrepresented groups in academia. Please note, you do not need to disclose your lived experience if you reach ...