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

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. 

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Dr Sophie Boyron

Dr Sophie Boyron

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 Muireann Quigley

Professor Muireann Quigley

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.

Dr Walters Nsoh

Dr Walters Nsoh

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







Dr Gavin Byrne

Dr Gavin Byrne

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



Dr Maureen Mapp

Dr Maureen Mapp

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





Dr Chen Zhu

Dr Chen Zhu

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 Joy Porter

Professor Joy Porter

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 Matt Houlbrook

Professor Matt Houlbrook

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 ...

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)