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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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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

Professor of Law, Medicine, and Technology
Birmingham Law School
Biolaw, property in the body and biomaterials, the use of the behavioural sciences in law and policy, (bio)technologies and law.

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

Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:
Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Birmingham Law School
Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
• Digital asset regulation
• African customary law in juridical settings
• Gender equality and sentencing
• Decolonising IP law

Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Dr Zhu considers postgraduate research proposals falling into the following areas:
- Historical and Theoretical Aspects of Copyright Law
- Legal Construction of Authorship
- Music Copyright Law
- Software Related Intellectual Property Issues

Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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 ...

Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...

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’ 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 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.

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

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)