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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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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 ...

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

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 ...

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
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, ...

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