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.
Start your search
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 “human rights”
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 Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement
Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.
Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories
Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights
Department of English Literature
鈥� Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
鈥� Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
鈥� Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory
Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
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 ...
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 International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
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鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.
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)