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 “environmental law”
Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Birmingham Law School
Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.
Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.
Current PhD students
鈥� Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...
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 in Law
Programme Director, Online LLM in Energy and Environmental Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Nsoh is happy to supervise within the following broad areas:
Innovative approaches such as conservation covenants, payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsets in conservation
Biodiversity and nature conservation law
Property (land) rights, land use, land tenure and livelihoods
Forest ownership and sustainability
Regulation of natural resources
Ecosystem services
Indigenous rights
Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...
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.
Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law
Associate Professor
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice
School of Biosciences
Dr Scott Glaberman's lab is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:
- Leveraging evolutionary principles to understand species sensitivity to chemicals
- Analysing toxicology data within a One Health framework using big data approaches
- Developing nematodes (including C. elegans) as model organisms in toxicology
- Advancing environmental monitoring of contaminants through risk-based approaches
- Reimagining risk assessment practices for environmental contaminants
Investigating evolutionary mechanisms of cancer resistance and ...
Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
* Transitional justice
* Resilience
* War and armed conflict
* Environmental impacts of war
* Posthumanism
Professor of Cerebrovascular, Exercise & Environmental Physiology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Professor Lucas has supervised numerous research Masters and PhD students in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, and Postdoctoral Fellows at UoB. As both a primary and co-supervisor Prof Lucas has 16 PhD and 13 MSc (research) completions, and currently co/supervises 10 PhD and 4 MSc (research) students. The details of his graduate student supervision and the subjects/areas of work are listed below:
Postdoctoral Fellows
2023- Dr Jun ...
Professor of Economics
Director of Research - Department of Economics
Business School
Professor Elliott is available to supervise PhD students across a broad range of topics including international and development economics and environmental and energy economics. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged and students will need to be familar with the manipulation of large data sets and econometric techniques and methods.
Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics
Any area of Environmental or Natural Resource Economics
Research Fellow
(Guest Lecturer)
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Doctoral Research supervision:
Doctoral Researcher: Juliana Antunes de Azevedo
Topic: Urban Heat and Energy Demand: Application of an urban meteorological network
This doctoral research will analyse the temporal and spatial variability 麻豆精选's UHI and its relationship with household energy consumption using high-resolution meteorological data from BUCL, MODIS and Landsat ETM+ data and Energy Consumption data.
Supervisor: Dr. Lee Chapman
Co-supervisor: Dr. Catherine L. Muller
MSc dissertation supervision (various ...
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)