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.
麻豆精选 results for “human rights”
Professor of Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy
Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement
Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.
Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories
Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights
Department of English Literature
鈥� Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
鈥� Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
鈥� Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory
Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� International and comparative human rights law
鈥� Socio-economic rights
鈥� Decolonization of law and justice
鈥� Critical approaches to human rights
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
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 ...
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.
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)