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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Dr Niveen Kassem

Dr Niveen Kassem

Assistant Professor in Arabic Cultural Studies.
Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

Dubai Campus

Niveen is happy to supervise postgraduate students intersected in the following areas:

  • Middle Eastern Studies, including literary heritage and culture;
  • Cultural trauma, memory and identity research with art and story-telling (including oral history);
  • Representations of gender identity;
  • comparative literature;
  • translation studies;

Dr Ioanna Katapidi

Dr Ioanna Katapidi

Lecturer

Department of History

Heritage and Place Making
Heritage and Place identity
Heritage led urban regeneration
Heritage and Sustainable Development
The social construction of heritage





Balwant Kaur

Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice and Education

School of Education

  • Decolonial feminism
  • Intersectionality
  • Race, culture and migration
  • Diasporic communities
  • Creative research methodologies

Professor Maria Kavussanu

Professor Maria Kavussanu

Head of Postgraduate Research
Professor in Sport & Exercise Psychology

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Please e mail me to inquire about opportunities for postgraduate study in the following areas:

  • Understanding and preventing doping in sport
  • Authentic leadership in coaches
  • Antecedents and consequences of prosocial and antisocial behavior in athletes 

Current Postgraduate Students

  • Thomas Mackman
  • Katherine Sparks 
  • Jennifer Henderson

Professor Pamela Kearns

Professor Pamela Kearns

Professor of Clinical Paediatric Oncology
Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Oncology

Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit

Pam supervises clinical and non-clinical PhD students in various areas of pre-clinical in vitro and in vivo models for haematological malignancies, including currently in hodgkins and non-hodgkins lymphoma and evaluation of the paediatric immune system in childhood cancers.

 

Professor Moritz Kebschull

Professor Moritz Kebschull

Chair of Restorative Dentistry

School of Dentistry

 Professor Kebschull currently supervises international and iCASE-funded PhD students in the following areas:

  • Molecular epidemiology of oral diseases and conditions
  • Work with nucleic acid -omics profiles (DNA, RNA, miRNA, methylation, microbial signatures)
  • Multi-omics integration
He is happy to receive applications of prospective students for projects in these areas.

Dr Matt Keith

Dr Matt Keith

Assistant Professor

School of Chemical Engineering

Primary Supervision:
1. Advanced recycling of next-generation bioplastics
2. Recycling of carbon fibre reinforced polymers using Deep Eutectic Solvents
3. Development of sustainable aviation fuels from microalgae

Secondary Supervision
1. Solvent based recycling of Neodynium-Iron-Boron magnets









Dr Lucille Kelsall-Knight

Dr Lucille Kelsall-Knight

Associate Professor in Children鈥檚 Nursing
Director of Pre-Registration Nursing Programmes (BNurs/MNurs)

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Sexual minority parenting (including accessing healthcare)
Adoption and Fostering

Professor Luke Kennard

Professor Luke Kennard

Professor of Creative Writing

Department of Film and Creative Writing

I am currently supervising PhDs in the application of surrealist technique to contemporary poetry; the New York School; a feminist reading of absurdism in 21st-century poetry; Publishing and digital trends in contemporary poetry; Futurism and prize culture.

Professor Chris Kennedy

Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English Language

Department of Linguistics and Communication

I have an active group of PhD research students and I welcome MA and PhD supervision in the areas outlined under Research below.


Find out more - our PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Professor Etlyn Kenny

Professor Etlyn Kenny

Professor of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour

Department of Management

  • Radost Dineva (PT)
  • Annalise Galea (FT)
  • Nazia Saeed (FT)
  • Danni Dorn (PT)
  • Marcelle Wright (PT)

Past PhD students

  • Dr Giulia Guinti (FT)

Dr Manfred Kerber

Dr Manfred Kerber

Honorary Senior Lecturer

School of Computer Science

Manfred Kerber does not take on any Doctoral Research Students any more.