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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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Professor of Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Stefan Krause’s research investigates the impacts of global environmental change on hydrological fluxes, biogeochemical cycling and ecohydrological feedback functions in complex landscapes with coupled groundwater-surface water systems. His work focuseses in particular on the analysis and quantification of multi-component reactive transport processes at aquifer-river interfaces and how these are influenced by changes in land-use and climate. This combines novel modelling techniques with the development of innovative experimental technologies for investigating ...

Associate Professor in Computational Biology
School of Biosciences
For a list of possible PhD projects offered by Dr Kreft www.findaphd.com/search/customlink.asp?inst=birm-Biol&supersurname=Kreft

Chair of Allergy, Clinical Immunology and Global Health
Honorary Consultant Allergist and Immunologist
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Research
- Currently supervising 3 PhD students (Drug Allergy)
- Supervised 1 international training fellow (2021-23)
- Clinical supervisor for Allergy and Immunology specialist trainees (2005 onwards)

Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics
Deputy Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues
School of Education
Kristján Kristjánsson has wide experience of working with postgraduate students and would be interested in supervising doctoral students across a large area of concerns and interests, having to do with moral education, virtue ethics, well-being, educational values, teacher/student emotions and self-concepts.

Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Director of the Birmingham MBA in Singapore
Head of the Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Innovation Group and Cluster (ELIC)
Department of Management
Ms Mihaela Ursuleac researching for her PhD on institutional forces in the context of family firms at University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.
Mr Yichen Xi researching for his PhD on the opportunities of blockchain technologies in the public sector at University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.
Ms Jieya Lyu researching for her PhD on the human capital of returnee entrepreneurs at Royal Holloway University of London.
Mr Narayan Bhattarai researching for his PhD on digital ...

Professor of Psychology of Language
Deputy Head of School
School of Psychology
Andrea Krott is a psycholinguist who is interested in language acquisition and brain responses to language processing. Many of her studies, carried out in various languages, have focused on how adults and children understand and produce compound words (eg, ‘baby bottle’). Her current research concerns children’s word learning and language-related brain responses (EEG) in adults.
With regard to adult language processing, Dr Krott often uses EEG to better understand the ...

Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology and Clinical Psychologist
School of Psychology
Carl supervises a number of Clinical Psychology Trainees in various research themes.

Associate Professor of Language, Social Justice and Education
School of Education
Harry is open to supervising PhD candidates in the following areas:
- Teaching and Researching Young Language Learners
- Multilingual Education
- English medium Education
- Learner autonomy
- Language teacher education and professional development

Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Laura is available to supervise doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Behaviour change programmes that apply established frameworks (COM-B, Mindspace) to affect health and wellbeing
- Workplace health and wellbeing research, including meaningful work and subjective perceptions of wellbeing
- Diary-based and time use approaches to tracking behaviour and wellbeing
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Laura directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, ...

Associate Professor
Postgraduate Research lead in the College of Medicine and Health - Dubai
Co-Programme Director of Biomedical Sciences Programme in Dubai
Institute of Clinical Sciences
Laila has three PhD students undertaking projects in the following areas:
- Development of hyperbranched peptide nanocarriers for targeted siRNA delivery to HER2 overexpressing breast cancer
- Stimuli-responsive nanometal-loaded liposomes for cancer therapy and diagnosis.
- Progenitor cells activation in musculoskeletal diseases

Professor in Mathematics (Mason Chair)
School of Mathematics
Daniela Kühn is interested in supervising PhD students in Combinatorics. If you are interested, please email her.
Associate Professor
Affiliated with School of Health Sciences
Affiliated with Department of Nursing and Midwifery
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Behavioural medicine
Impact of Ethnicity on musculoskeletal disease
Long-term disease management
Management of co-morbidities
Clinical improvement
medication adherence
Training of healthcare professionals