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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Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.

Associate Professor in Law (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
I am looking to supervise doctoral candidates in areas of criminal evidence, ethics (values) and legal education/mentoring in pedagogical curricula designs that enhances student learning and teacher reflection.

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...

Professor of Translator Education
Head of School of Language, Culture, Art History and Music
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Department of Modern Languages
I have wide-ranging interests across the field of Translation Studies. My current PhD students are working in translation competence, translation industry requirements, ego-targeting in tourism translation, measurement of translator style using computational methods, the use of AI in legal translation and the use and translation of evaluative adjectives in tourism translation.

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
Birmingham Law School
Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law
Current doctoral supervision:
Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation

Practitioner Tutor
School of Education
She has previously supervised the following doctoral level work: the views of men in primary school teaching; male mental health; universal design for learning in SEND; the lived experience of a visually impaired lecturer; the lived experience of a care leaver with SEND; careers advice for individuals with SEND.

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Birmingham Law School
Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
鈥 Digital asset regulation
鈥 African customary law in juridical settings
鈥 Gender equality and sentencing
鈥 Decolonising IP law
Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution
Co-Deputy Head of Education (Education Review)
Birmingham Law School
dispute resolution, private international law
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Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement
Director of IRiS
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Nando welcomes proposals for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the following areas:
- Forced displacement and globalisation
- Sociology of statelessness
- Dual citizenship and the experiences of dual citizens
- The intersection between migration, rights and citizenship
- Everyday experiences of superdiversity
- Neoliberalism, globalisation and governance of human mobility
- The politics of refugee voices and silences
- Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism
- Undocumented migrants and experiences of ‘illegality’ through generations
- Child and family migration
- Transnationalism and ...

Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law

Honorary Professor of Quaker Studies
Director, Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
The Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies has around 20 MA by Research/ PhD students and is the leading centre worldwide in research into Quakerism. There is a staff team of 14 supervisors and we can supervise in most areas of Quaker studies: history, theology, philosophy, sociology, literary studies and Quaker values in education.
My own research interests lie particularly in the sociology of religion and the sociology of sects. For ...

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)