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.
麻豆精选 results for “constitutional law”
Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law
Current doctoral supervision:
Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation
Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...
Professor of European Law and Policy
Director, Institute of European Law
Associate Dean 麻豆精选 Law School
Birmingham Law School
European Law
European defence and security integration
Public procurement
Professor Trybus provides doctoral supervision and supervision for other research degrees offered by the University 麻豆精选. Particular areas of expertise and interest include public procurement law and policy generally (not only in relation to the EU) and European law and policy, especially in relation to defence integration.
He has supervised research students undertaking research in the following areas:
Barriers to ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥� Constitutional theory
鈥� Legal/political philosophy
鈥� Public law
鈥� Human rights law
鈥� Housing law
Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.
Current PhD students:
Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review
Past PhD students:
Sylvester ...
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥�, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:
The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Sandra is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
German Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
European Union Law
Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting an official application.
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� International and comparative human rights law
鈥� Socio-economic rights
鈥� Decolonization of law and justice
鈥� Critical approaches to human rights
Reader in Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School
European Criminal Law
European Criminal Justice
Comparative criminal and criminal procedure law
Structural Developments in Criminal Justice
Terrorism 鈥� Phenomena and Responses
Trafficking Human Beings
Current doctoral students:
The Challenges Associated with Identifying Victims of Trafficking Human Beings 鈥� Matthew Davis
The Suitability of Trial by Jury for Trafficking in Persons Cases 鈥� Jack Murphy
Professor of Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
School of Computer Science
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Statistical machine learning - theory and practice
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High-dimensional data spaces, distance concentration
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Probabilistic modelling of data, Bayesian inference
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Large scale black-box, optimisation
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Dimensionality reduction, random projections
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Compressive learning, compressive optimisation
Reader in Railway and Civil Engineering
Convenor, UG Railway Engineering Program (BEng/MEng)
Coordinator, RISEN (www.risen2rail.eu)
Department of Civil Engineering
Zac is interested in supervising both undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the following areas:
- design, construction, inspection, operation and maintenance of civil and rail infrastructure system
- train/track interface and interaction
- railway and permanent way engineering; structural dynamics, reliability and resilience
- shock/blast and impact
- transportation systems
- risks, economics, strategy, systems and urbanisation
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas or related ...
Newton International Fellow, Postdoctoral Position
International Development Department
Rotich Dominic: Assessment of mangrove cover change in Shirazi, Bodo, Mwenje, Funzi blocks, Kwale County. Ongoing. Anthony M. Karani: community engagement in the conservation of Critically Endangered Kenya Montane Dancing Jewel Platycypha amboniensis in Mount Kenya. Ongoing.
Reader in Microcirculation Research
Director of the Intravital Imaging Research Facility
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Dr Kalia has successfully supervised more than 20 postgraduate students as first supervisor. PhD students have attained postdoctoral positions in academia or R&D careers in pharma/industry. She has also previously acted as the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences Postgraduate Lead. Dr Kalia currently has openings for self-funded PhD students in the areas of:
- Enhancing the vasculoprotective effects of stem cells (HSCs and MSCs) in IR injured organs
- Identification of vasculoprotective stem cell sub-types ...
Associate Professor in Human Geography
Geography and Environmental Sciences
Cyrus Nayeri (ESRC studentship at the University of Oxford) - Governing the ungovernable: investigating the geopolitics of volcano hazard management on Iceland's South Coast (co-supervised with Dr Beth Greenhough and Dr Jamie Lorimer)
Kärg welcomes proposals from potential PhD applicants on the following topics:
- The scientific and political controversies of unconventional fossil fuels development and other extractive frontiers
- ‘Resource-making’ processes: resource ontologies, materialities, and temporalities
- New materialist approaches to critical ...
Research Fellow
Health Services Management Centre
Inès is open to supervision of postgraduate research projects relating to any of her research interests.
Assistant professor
Dubai Campus
Shuyao Wang (PhD student) – “Computational and neural underpinnings of visual information processing”
Assistant Professor in Law and Innovation
Birmingham Law School
Dr Karanasiou鈥� s principal research interests are in regulatory design of emerging technologies, particularly looking at the promotion of autonomy in times of rapid automation within and beyond the digital sphere. Argyro welcomes enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in pursuing PhD study under her supervision.
Professor of Endocrinology
Lead for Continuous Professional Development in the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Lead for Academic Clinical Training in Endocrinology and Diabetes (University 麻豆精选)
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Clinical Research Fellows, Clinical Post-graduate Trainees
Niki is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Pituitary tumours
- Hypopituitarism
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Niki on the details above.
Associate Professor in German
Department of Modern Languages
I would be happy to supervise students with a research interest in:
Political violence and terrorism
Gender and conflict
Feminist protest and European women鈥檚 movements
Feminist Theory
1968 and its legacy
Political extremism
Contemporary German culture and politics
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
I am always looking for interested and motivated PhD students within my preferred research areas. Please contact me directly via email.
Associate Professor in Finance
Deputy Head of the Department of Finance
The Department of Finance
- Tariq Qaysi (PhD)
- Junchen Li (PhD)
- Haoying Zhou (PhD)