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 “war conflict history”

Professor Sabine Lee

Professor Sabine Lee

Professor in Modern History

Department of History

Listed below are the fields in which Sabine Lee is able to offer supervision of research postgraduates.

Children Born of War; Children and War
History of UN Peacekeeping
Conflict-related gender-based violence
Social consequences of war and conflict
20th century British history
20th century international relations
19th and 20th century history of science (particularly mathematics and physics)
20th German history










Professor Matt Houlbrook

Professor Matt Houlbrook

Professor of Cultural History

Department of History

I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you鈥檙e interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...

Professor Klaus Richter

Professor Klaus Richter

Professor of Central and Eastern European History

Department of History

I am currently first supervisor for the following students: Jonathan Conde, Graham Cox, Jared Feuerstein, Owen Grey and Marta Starostina.

I am happy to supervise doctoral work in the following areas: history of modern Eastern Europe, history of nationalism, interwar history, history of the First and Second World War.

Dr Steve Morewood

Dr Steve Morewood

Associate Professor in International History

Department of History

Steve Morewood's research interests include the military, political and strategic history of the modern East Mediterranean region (late19th and 20th centuries). He has supervised several PhDs to a successful conclusion with some students going on to publish their dissertations in book form. Topics have included the Greek press during the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22, Turkey and the Straits in the early Cold War period and the Greek-Cypriot perspective in the ...

Dr Imogen Peck

Dr Imogen Peck

Assistant Professor in British History
Director, Centre for Midlands History and Cultures

Department of History

I am happy to supervise doctoral researchers on topics relating to my research specialisms, just get in touch. I would be particularly keen to hear from students who are interested in working on: memory and the commemoration of conflict; family and local memory; family history; the social history of archives; the social and cultural history of the Midlands, especially during the early modern period.

Dr James Pugh

Dr James Pugh

Lecturer in Modern History

Department of History

I currently supervise or co-supervise a number of MA and PhD students. Subjects in which I am interested include:

The modern history of drugs, especially with a focus on Britain.
The modern history of drugs and warfare.
The history, theory and practice of air power, particularly during the era of total war.
The military history of the two World Wars, especially from a British perspective.




Dr Thomas Brodie

Dr Thomas Brodie

Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History

Department of History

I would be delighted to hear from students intending to work on any aspect of Modern German history, as well as those with thematic interests in the histories of religion, war and memory in any European context since 1800.

Dr George Kyris

Dr George Kyris

Associate Professor in International Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

I would welcome PhD applications in areas related to my research interests below, and I would encourage potential supervisees to get in touch:

- international conflict, conflict management and resolution
- international organisations, the European Union
- state recognition
- statehood, sovereignty
- secession
- unrecognised/ de facto states






Dr Hannah Cornwell

Dr Hannah Cornwell

Associate Professor in Ancient History

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology

I welcome proposals for supervision in any aspect of Roman History, especially political aspects of the Roman Republic and Early Principate, Imperial ideology, International Relations and diplomacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to history and material culture.

Postgraduate research projects I have supervised or am currently supervising include:

Ben Salisbury, 鈥楤efore Public Opinion: The Role of Tribunes of the Plebs in Creating, Manipulating, and Responding to Popular Sentiment in the Late Roman ...



Professor Joy Porter

Professor Joy Porter

Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group

Department of History

Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...

Dr Daniel Whittingham

Dr Daniel Whittingham

Associate Professor in the History of Warfare and Conflict

Department of History

I would welcome PhD proposals on the following topics: British colonial warfare (including war during the era of decolonisation), Counterinsurgency, and the British army 1815-1945.

Dr Berny S猫be

Dr Berny S猫be

Senior Lecturer in colonial and post-colonial studies

Department of Modern Languages

I am happy to offer postgraduate research supervision in the following fields:

Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
British and French imperial history
Decolonisation and the End of Empire
Colonial memory
Nineteenth and Twentieth French History

I supervise or co-supervises MA dissertation students in the above mentioned areas, and perform the role of PhD supervisor for several PhD theses:

Dunya Ismael (as lead supervisor): 鈥楻etro-cultural translation: neutralising cultural capital accumulation and power ...









Professor Louise J Jackson

Professor Louise J Jackson

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

Professor Russell Jackson

Professor Russell Jackson

Emeritus Professor of Drama

Department of Drama and Theatre Arts

I no longer supervise research dissertations.

Dr Simon Jackson

Dr Simon Jackson

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 ...




Dr Thomas Jackson

Dr Thomas Jackson

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.

Professor Saiju Jacob

Professor Saiju Jacob

Honorary Professor (Neuroimmunology)
Consultant Neurologist

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy

  • Neurology Specialty Trainees
  • International Training Fellows
  • Clinical Research Fellows

Feroz Jadhakhan

Feroz Jadhakhan

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.

Mrs Parbir Kaur Jagpal

Mrs Parbir Kaur Jagpal

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

Dr Pravin Jagtap

Dr Pravin Jagtap

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.

Dr Zahraa Jalal

Dr Zahraa Jalal

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

Dr Sabena Yasmin Jameel

Dr Sabena Yasmin Jameel

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

Professor David James

Professor David James

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 ...

Dr Peter Jan膷ovi膷

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)