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 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

School of Social Policy and Society

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 ...

Dr Francesca Kinsella

Dr Francesca Kinsella

Consultant Haematologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer
Birmingham ECMC - Immunotherapy Theme Lead
Director of the Birmingham Centre for Cellular Therapy and Transplantation at UHB

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy

• PhD Immunology - Dr Luke Maggs. Awarded 2017
• PhD Immunology - Mr Ali Gazwani. Commenced study 2022


Professor Paulus Kirchhof

Professor Paulus Kirchhof

Honorary Professor

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Professor Kirchhof has successfully supervised over 20 MD and PhD students in Germany. Three students won prizes with their theses in the past, and many of his MD and PhD candidates are developing their careers as successful clinicians, clinician-scientists and scientists. He supervises MD and PhD students in Birmingham. Current students are listed on the cluster webpage.

Professor Andrew Kirkman

Professor Andrew Kirkman

Peyton and Barber Professor of Music

Department of Music

I have supervised PhD topics as diverse as 'Music in Post-Communist Poland' and 'The iPad', but am particularly happy to supervise students wishing to study topics in late medieval and renaissance music, in terms of repertory, cultural practice and historiography.

Professor Jackson C. Kirkman-Brown MBE

Professor Jackson C. Kirkman-Brown MBE

Professor in Reproductive Biology

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

  • Main Supervisor for two PhD students
  • Joint Supervisor / Co-Investigator for five PhD students
  • PhDs applications encouraged from potential students who can secure funding.

Funded PhD opportunity 

Applications are invited for PhD Studentships. 
Applicants should have a strong background in a relevant scientific discipline. They should have a commitment to reproductive science research and hold or realistically expect to obtain at least an Upper Second Class Honours Degree in a ...

Professor Dina Kiwan

Professor Dina Kiwan

Professor in Comparative Education
IGI Fellowship

School of Education

Dina currently supervises students (ESRC scholarship, Global Challenges PhD scholarship and University Scholarship) on the following topics: disability, education and social movements in the Middle East, Syrian refugees and higher education, global citizenship and international schooling, Black British women’s experiences of education, and ethnic minority students’ conceptions of fairness in school. She has experience of supervising MA and PhD students on a wide range of topics including citizenship, civil society, activism, ...

Dr Patrick Ryan Knights

Dr Patrick Ryan Knights

Assistant Professor

School of Physics and Astronomy

Direct dark matter detection (and related) experiments (e.g. NEWS-G, MIGDAL, XLZD)

Dr Andrew Knops

Dr Andrew Knops

Lecturer in Sociology
Departmental Extenuating Circumstances Officer

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Andrew is keen to supervise students on the following areas: the theory and / or practice of deliberative democracy (in specific contexts or more generally), active citizenship, political participation and open government. He is particularly keen to supervise research in these areas that focuses on groups that are seen as oppressed or marginalised.

Professor Joshua Knowles

Professor Joshua Knowles

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

School of Computer Science

artificial intelligence, swarm intelligence, computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, global optimisation, decision making, reinforcement learning.

Professor Sandy (Alexander) Knowles

Professor Sandy (Alexander) Knowles

Professor in Nuclear Materials
Royal Academy of Engineering Associate Research Fellow
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

School of Metallurgy and Materials

New PhD studentship positions in the group are advertised via findaphd.com.

  • Demonstration of novel high temperature zirconium alloys under irradiation for generation-IV fission with National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL)
  • Development of Novel Radiation Tolerant W Alloys for Nuclear Fusion with Oxford Sigma
  • High throughput combinatorial discovery & demonstration of novel alloys with UKAEA