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 Laura Kudrna

Dr Laura Kudrna

Associate Professor in Health Research Methods

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Laura is available to supervise doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Workplace health and wellbeing research in policy, including meaningful work and subjective perceptions of wellbeing
  • Behavioural and implementation science projects that apply established frameworks to better understand health and wellbeing

If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Laura directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk

Dr Laila Kudsiova

Dr Laila Kudsiova

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 Daniela K眉hn

Professor Daniela K眉hn

Emeritus Professor in Mathematics

School of Mathematics

Daniela Kühn is interested in supervising PhD students in Combinatorics. If you are interested, please email her.

Dr Kanta Kumar

Dr Kanta Kumar

Associate Professor
Affiliated with School of Health Sciences
Affiliated with School 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







Dr Santosh Kumar

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Biosciences

Co-supervised four Postgraduate students, along with my PI, Dr. Peter Lund.

Dr Balachandran Kumarendran

Dr Balachandran Kumarendran

Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Dr B Kumarendran is completing supervision of the dissertations of three Masters of Public Health candidates at the University 麻豆精选. He has already completed supervision of 6 dissertations of master’s degrees and one thesis of MD in Medical Administration in Sri Lanka.

Dr Jing-Ming (Thomas) Kuo

Dr Jing-Ming (Thomas) Kuo

Associate Professor in Finance

The Department of Finance

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance (and Corporate Social Responsibility)
  • Financial Markets
  • Asset Pricing
  • Behavioural Finance
  • Applied Financial Economics
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Environmental Finance

Dr Irina Kuznetsova

Dr Irina Kuznetsova

Associate Professor

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Forced displacement, migration, well-being, ageing

Dr George Kyris

Dr George Kyris

Associate Professor in International Politics
Doctoral Research Lead

Department of Political Science and International Studies

I would welcome PhD applications in areas related to my research interests below, and I would encourage potential supervisees to get in touch:

- international conflict, conflict management and resolution
- international organisations, the European Union
- state recognition
- statehood, sovereignty
- secession
- unrecognised/ de facto states






Dr Derek Kyte

Dr Derek Kyte

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

PhD Supervision

Birgith Engelst Grove (2018) TelePRO use in the Danish renal population.

Olalekan Ayiegbusi (2015). Using patient reported outcomes to promote quality of care and safety in the management of patients with chronic kidney disease. Funder: Health Foundation.

Samantha Cruz Riviera (2015). Evaluating the impact of patient-reported outcome (PRO) trial results on future patient care. Funder: Mexican Government.

 External advisor: Improving Patient-Reported Outcome research practices and Documentation (The ImPROveD Study) Mercieca-Bebber R, Calvert M, Stockler M, Kyte ...