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 Graeme Kettles

Dr Graeme Kettles

Assistant Professor in Plant Pathology

School of Biosciences

Graeme will be looking to recruit PhD and Masters level students in the 2018-19 academic year. Please contact Graeme directly if you are interested in projects that are currently available.

Professor Nick Kettridge

Professor Nick Kettridge

Professor of Ecohydrology
Head of School, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Nick Kettridge specialises in characterising the ecohydrological resilience of ecosystems to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Much of his research focuses on peatlands; understanding the processes that control the provision of key ecosystem services within these environments, and quantifying their response to changing climatic conditions and extreme events such as fire and drought.

Much of Dr Kettridge鈥檚 research focuses on peatlands and aims to understand the processes that control the ...

Dr Kieran Khamis

Dr Kieran Khamis

Lecturer in Physical Geography

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Kieran is interested in supervising projects related to environmental sensing in freshwater environments and the impacts of environmental change on river ecosystem structure and function.

Dr Kamran Khan

Dr Kamran Khan

Associate Professor in Language, Social Justice and Education

School of Education

Kamran is open to supervising PhDs on language and migration, citizenship and race.

Dr Naeem Khan

Senior Research Fellow

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy

Supervising BMedSc student projects:

  • Developing novel flow cytometry assays for predicting chemosensitivity in acute myeloid leukemia patients

Dr Farhat Latif Khanim

Dr Farhat Latif Khanim

Lecturer
Director of Research

Department of Biomedical Sciences

The main aim of Farhat Khanim鈥檚 research is the identification and delivery of effective, non-toxic therapies for blood cancers to the clinic. To achieve this goal, the group studies the basic biology of haematological malignancies, performs drug redeployment screening and drug mechanism of action studies. Mechanistic studies include analysis of tumour metabolism in response to drugs and tumour niche interactions.

Applicants who are interested in postgraduate projects with Dr Khanim ...

Dr Jeremy H. Kidwell

Dr Jeremy H. Kidwell

Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics

Department of Theology and Religion

Given that my own work is interdisciplinary, I welcome enquiries from prospective research students on a variety of topics in theological ethics carried out in the form of constructive critical reflection or ethnographic inquiry. To get a better sense of my work, have a look over my website at jeremykidwell.info, but my current areas of work include: environmental ethics (or 鈥渞eligion and ecology鈥), technology, business and organisational ethics, design and ...

Dr Jesse Kigozi

Dr Jesse Kigozi

Associate Professor in Health Economics

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Jesse has successfully supervised 1 PhD student to completion.

Dawit Zemedikun (Topic: Exploring, quantifying and updating estimates of the economic burden of back pain in the UK using routine data) – Completed 2020.

Jesse is primarily interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Evaluative research (effectiveness and cost-effectiveness analysis)
  • Investments in mental health of young people
  • Measurement and valuation of wider societal costs
  • Aspects of economic evaluation ...

Professor Mark David Kilby

Professor Mark David Kilby

Emeritus Professor of Fetal Medicine

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

  • Supervision of non-clinical PhD students.

  • Supervision of Clinical PhD students.

  • Supervision of Advanced Specialist training in Maternal and Fetal Medicine.

Dr Yoon Jin Kim

Dr Yoon Jin Kim

Assistant Professor in Sport Pedagogy

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Yoon Jin is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas: 

  • Safeguarding in sport/PE settings
  • Coach development (recruitment, education, practices)
  • International sport coach migration
  • Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE)
  • PE teacher socialisation and identities 
If you are interested in studying any of these areas of research, please contact Yoon Jin at y.j.kim.1@bham.ac.uk, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: dr@contacts.bham.ac.uk or call +44 (0)121 414 ...

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Dr Sophie King-Hill

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






Dr Philip Kinghorn

Dr Philip Kinghorn

Senior Lecturer

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Current

  • Lead supervisor: Gareth Hooper (Start date: September 2022).  Gareth’s PhD is exploring the economic evidence base for interventions to manage frailty.

Previous

  • Co-Supervisor for Alastair Canaway's PhD, "Capturing Family Benefits of End of Life Care for use in Economic Evaluation".  Graduated Winter 2015.
  • Co-supervisor for Chidubem Ogwulu’s PhD, “Developing and piloting approaches for the valuation of outcomes associated with sexually transmitted infections in order to construct quality adjusted life years ...