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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Head of the School of Social Policy and Society
Professor of Health Policy and Sociology, Health Services Management Centre
Health Services Management Centre
Nicola is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in any of the following areas:
- Preventative health care policy (especially using risk work theory)
- Sociology of health and healing (especially complementary and alternative medicine)
- Sociology of work and professions (especially embodied forms of learning, lay health workers)
- Gender and sexuality (especially around LGBTQ health inequalities)
- Sociology of the body and embodiment (especially body work theory)
- Interdisciplinary and applied health research, using qualitative methods ...
Professor of Health Care Law
Birmingham Law School
Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,
Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research

Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law

Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, 鈥楻econsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

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 ...

Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods
Director, NIHR Research Support Service National Collaborative
Director NIHR Research Support Service Birmingham Hub and partners Keele, and Warwick
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Thomas is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following general areas:
- Determinants of cardiometabolic disease, particularly atrial fibrillation, morbidity and mortality.
- Approaches to attenuate cardiometabolic disease and associated risk factors and improve care pathways for their management.
- Health consequences of air pollution.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Thomas on the contact details above or through FindAPhD.com.
Professor Thomas has ...

Research Fellow
School of Psychology
Ben is interested in supervising students in the areas of qualitative research related to mental health, applied health research, and ethics (including applied/practical ethics). He currently supervises students on qualitative research projects.

Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
鈥 Law and development (especially in Latin America)
鈥 Law and political economy
鈥 Gender, sexuality, and law
鈥 Gambling regulation

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care
Department of Applied Health Sciences
KK has supervised over 20 doctoral students at the University 麻豆精选. Important examples of publications arising from their theses include:
Li B, Pallan M, Liu WJ, Hemming K, Frew E, Lin R, Liu W, Martin J, Zanganeh M, Hurley K, Cheng KK, Adab P. The CHIRPY DRAGON intervention in preventing obesity in Chinese primary-school--aged children: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2019 Nov 26;16(11):e1002971. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002971. (this was one of ...

Honorary Professor
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Primary Supervision
Completed
- PhD Pundir J (2016-2022) Interventions to improve fertility outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
- PhD A Hamilton (2013-2019) Views of women and healthcare professionals on lifestyle interventions in pregnancy
- PhD B Wattar - (2013-2017) - Improving health outcomes for pregnant women with metabolic risk factors
- PhD J Allotey (2014-2018) Improving the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
- PhD E Rogozinska (2014-2017) Diet and physical activity based interventions for antenatal ...

Associate Professor
Health Services Management Centre
PhD Supervision Interests
Sexual Health in children and young people
Sexual behaviours in children and young people
Evaluation of policy and programmes
Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Jonathan is currently supervising two PhD students:
- Derek Kyte (2011 – 2014; FT) The Methodological and Ethical Issues Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Clinical Trials
- Bert Vanderhaegen (2013 - 2019; PT) A Critical Reflection upon the Nature, Limits and Impact of Empirical Ethics’
Former PhD students are:
- Greg Moorlock (2009-2012; FT) An empirically informed ethical analysis of directed and conditional cadaveric organ donation. Awarded in 2012.
- Simon Jenkins ...

Professor of Health Economics and Health Policy
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Louise is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Measurement and valuation of healthcare benefits/outcomes
- Evaluation of interventions and services in sexual and reproductive health/public health
- Evaluation of interventions and services aiming to improve women’s health.
Current PhD Students:
- Nafsika Afentou
- Temitope Ladi-Akinyemi
- Lacina Traore
Former PhD Students:
- Tuba Saygin Avsar
- Sonja Bloch
- Chidubem Ogwulu Chriscasimir
- Muslim Abbas Syed
- Lena Schnitzler

Emeritus Professor of Drama
Department of Drama and Theatre Arts
I no longer supervise research dissertations.

Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History
Department of History
I offer postgraduate supervision in the colonial, international and global history of modern France and its empire, on empire in the twentieth century Mediterranean and in the comparative history of European empire.
I currently supervise or co-supervise several PhD students:
Gemma Jennings (Patriarchy and Poverty? A Transnational Analysis of the Social Implications of the Oil Industry between France and Algeria)
Tomoki Yamada (The League of Nations Mandates System as a ...

Clinician Scientist in Geriatric Medicine
Visiting Consultant in Geriatric Medicine
Theme Lead for Ageing and Frailty
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Thomas is currently supervising an Academic Clinical Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Thomas Jackson directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.

Honorary Professor (Neuroimmunology)
Consultant Neurologist
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
- Neurology Specialty Trainees
- International Training Fellows
- Clinical Research Fellows

Research Fellow
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Dr Jadhakhan is currently supporting 4 MSc Physiotherapy pre-reg students and 1 BSc Physiotherapy and works closely with Prof Deborah Falla, supporting students across the department.

Director of Postgraduate Studies
Programme Director - Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing
Associate Professor Clinical Pharmacy and Prescribing
School of Pharmacy
Parbir’s areas of research interest are:
- Medicines optimisation
- Barriers to access and uptake of medicines-related services in communities
- Epidemiology of multiple drug allergy syndrome (MDAS) and multiple drug Intolerance syndrome (MDIS)
- Developing the role of the Non-Medical Prescriber across healthcare sectors
- Inter-professional learning, development and practice

Assistant Professor
School of Biosciences
Pravin is looking to recruit PhD and master’s level students. Please contact him directly if you are interested in projects that are currently available.

Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics
School of Pharmacy
Zahraa is interested in supervising research projects in the following areas:
- Clinical Pharmacy
- Pharmacy Services Development
- Pharmaceutical Care (Chronic Diseases)
- Pharmacy Consultations
- Adherence to Cardiovascular Medicines

Associate Clinical Professor in Medical Professionalism
Birmingham Medical School Quality Assurance Lead
Senior Clinical Tutor for the Personal Academic Tutor
Birmingham Medical School
- Willing to supervise students who are interested in Medical Professionalism, Practical Wisdom (Phronesis) and Professional Virtues.
- GP Trainer in Practice

Chair in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Department of English Literature
I would welcome for supervision projects on all aspects of contemporary fiction, postcolonial writing, modernist literary culture, creative nonfiction, affect studies, literary geographies, and the critical health humanities.
Over the past couple of decades, I have supervised PhD students working on a range of topics, including multilingualism and the twentieth-century novel, realism and the politics of innovation in postwar American fiction, the ethics and poetics of autobiography, narrative theory, trauma ...
Senior Lecturer
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
PhD supervision
• Masoud Zakeri
• Shu-Nung Yao (jointly with Dr. T. Collins)
• Chunyang Xu (jointly with Prof. M. Cherniakov)
• Saeid Safavi (jointly with Prof. M. Russell)
• Nur Emileen Abd Rashid (jointly with Prof. M. Cherniakov)
• Xin Zou (awarded PhD, Dec 2008)