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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Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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. 

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ results for “health care law”

Professor Nicola Gale

Professor Nicola Gale

Head of the School of Social Policy and Society
Professor of Health Policy and Sociology, Health Services Management Centre

Health Services Management Centre

Nicola is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in any of the following areas:

  • Preventative health care policy (especially using risk work theory)
  • Sociology of health and healing (especially complementary and alternative medicine)
  • Sociology of work and professions (especially embodied forms of learning, lay health workers)
  • Gender and sexuality (especially around LGBTQ health inequalities)
  • Sociology of the body and embodiment (especially body work theory)
  • Interdisciplinary and applied health research, using qualitative methods ...

Professor Jean V. McHale

Professor of Health Care Law

Birmingham Law School

Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,

Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research






Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research

Birmingham Law School

Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law



Dr Kirsty Moreton

Dr Kirsty Moreton

Associate Professor in Law

Birmingham Law School

Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

Professor Rosie Harding

Professor Rosie Harding

Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean

Birmingham Law School

Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:

- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods
Director, NIHR Research Support Service National Collaborative
Director NIHR Research Support Service Birmingham Hub and partners Keele, and Warwick

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Professor Thomas is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following general areas:

  • Determinants of cardiometabolic disease, particularly atrial fibrillation,  morbidity and mortality.
  • Approaches to attenuate cardiometabolic disease and associated risk factors and improve care pathways for their management.
  • Health consequences of air pollution.

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Thomas on the contact details above or through FindAPhD.com.

Professor Thomas has ...

Dr Benjamin Costello

Dr Benjamin Costello

Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Ben is interested in supervising students in the areas of qualitative research related to mental health, applied health research, and ethics (including applied/practical ethics). He currently supervises students on qualitative research projects.

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor of Law and Political Economy

Birmingham Law School

I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation





Professor KK Cheng

Professor KK Cheng

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care

Department of Applied Health Sciences

KK has supervised over 20 doctoral students at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡. Important examples of publications arising from their theses include:

Li B, Pallan M, Liu WJ, Hemming K, Frew E, Lin R, Liu W, Martin J, Zanganeh M, Hurley K, Cheng KK, Adab P. The CHIRPY DRAGON intervention in preventing obesity in Chinese primary-school--aged children: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2019 Nov 26;16(11):e1002971. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002971. (this was one of ...

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Honorary Professor

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Primary Supervision

Completed

  • PhD Pundir J (2016-2022) Interventions to improve fertility outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
  • PhD A Hamilton (2013-2019) Views of women and healthcare professionals on lifestyle interventions in pregnancy
  • PhD B Wattar - (2013-2017) - Improving health outcomes for pregnant women with metabolic risk factors
  • PhD J Allotey (2014-2018) Improving the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
  • PhD E Rogozinska (2014-2017) Diet and physical activity based interventions for antenatal ...

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Associate Professor

Health Services Management Centre

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






Dr Jonathan (Jon) Ives

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Jonathan is currently supervising two PhD students:

  • Derek Kyte (2011 – 2014; FT) The Methodological and Ethical Issues Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Clinical Trials
  • Bert Vanderhaegen (2013 - 2019; PT) A Critical Reflection upon the Nature, Limits and Impact of Empirical Ethics’

Former PhD students are:

  • Greg Moorlock (2009-2012; FT)  An empirically informed ethical analysis of directed and conditional cadaveric organ donation. Awarded in 2012.
  • Simon Jenkins ...

Professor Ata Kaban

Professor Ata Kaban

School of Computer Science

  • Statistical machine learning - theory and practice

  • High-dimensional data spaces, distance concentration

  • Probabilistic modelling of data, Bayesian inference

  • Large scale black-box, optimisation

  • Dimensionality reduction, random projections

  • Compressive learning, compressive optimisation 

Dr Sakdirat Kaewunruen

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 ...

Dr. Anne Kairu

Dr. Anne Kairu

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.

Dr Neena Kalia

Dr Neena Kalia

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 ...

Dr Kärg Kama

Dr Kärg Kama

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 ...

Dr Inès Kander

Dr Inès Kander

Research Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Inès is open to supervision of postgraduate research projects relating to any of her research interests.

Dr Aytac Karabay

Dr Aytac Karabay

Assistant professor

Dubai Campus

Shuyao Wang (PhD student) – “Computational and neural underpinnings of visual information processing”

Dr Argyro Karanasiou

Dr Argyro Karanasiou

Assistant Professor in Law and Innovation

Birmingham Law School

Dr Karanasiou’ 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 Niki Karavitaki

Professor Niki Karavitaki

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 Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡)

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.

Dr Katharina Karcher

Dr Katharina Karcher

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’s movements
Feminist Theory
1968 and its legacy
Political extremism
Contemporary German culture and politics








Dr Andreas Karwath

Dr Andreas Karwath

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. 

 

Dr Eilnaz Kashefi Pour

Dr Eilnaz Kashefi Pour

Associate Professor in Finance
Deputy Head of the Department of Finance

The Department of Finance

  • Tariq Qaysi (PhD)
  • Junchen Li (PhD)
  • Haoying Zhou (PhD)