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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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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

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.

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 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 in Comparative Education
College of Social Sciences (CoSS) Deputy Director for Research and Knowledge Transfer
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, ...

Assistant Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
Direct dark matter detection (and related) experiments (e.g. NEWS-G, MIGDAL, XLZD)

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.

Honorary Senior Research Fellow
School of Computer Science
artificial intelligence, swarm intelligence, computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, global optimisation, decision making, reinforcement learning.

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

Reader in Structural Biology
School of Biosciences
If you are interested in studying for a PhD in Tim's lab then please contact him informally using the following email address t.j.knowles@bham.ac.uk.
Funding is available through competition. Both home and international students can apply via the MIBTP scheme, whilst International students by the Darwin scheme – both normally take applications at the end of the calendar year for entry the following year, please email me if you have ...

Research Fellow
Department of Social Work and Social Care
- Masters in Public Health Dissertations
- MSc in Clinical Primary and Community Care Dissertation
- PhD mentoring for students in IAHR
Farina is interested in supervising postgraduate and PhD research students on using qualitative methods to undertake their research. She is particularly interested in access to and experiences of health, prevention and lived experience of disease and illness.

Associate Professor
Head of Postgraduate Research
Birmingham Law School
Dr Kokkinis is available to supervise doctoral researchers on corporate law, corporate governance, banking law and regulation and financial regulation. He has previously supervised research projects on shareholder activism, executive remuneration, banking regulatory architecture and the development of infrastructure through private sector involvement.