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. 

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Dr Li Lin

Dr Li Lin

Lecturer in Accounting

The Department of Accounting

Li is currently co-supervising a final year PhD student with Dr Florian Gebreiter, on a project that examines the hospital accounting in China.

Li welcomes potential PhD applicants with qualitative research interests in social and environmental accounting (SEA), particularly in, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • Sustainability accounting and assurance
  • Carbon accounting in China
  • Biodiversity accounting in China
  • Chinese cultures and accounting practices
  • Professional accountancy firms and SEA
  • SEA ...

Dr Yong Lin

Dr Yong Lin

Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Department of Management

Yong welcomes PhD applicants who are interested in: 

  • digital transformation in supply chain
  • digital technologies and sustainability
  • logistics platform strategy
  • business ecosystems
  • manufacturing strategies

 

Dr Antje Lindenmeyer

Dr Antje Lindenmeyer

Lecturer in Medical Sociology

Birmingham Medical School

Antje is supervising PhD students with qualitative research projects or nested qualitative elements within a mixed methods study. She especially welcomes PhD students planning to work in the following areas:

  • Migrant/ transnational health
  • Lived experience of illness
  • Sociological approaches to health and illness

Professor Gregory YH Lip

Professor Gregory YH Lip

Honorary Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Distinguished Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Academic supervision and training: 

Professor Lip has successfully supervised ~45 awarded higher degrees (MD/PhD/MPhil) since 1997 [12 theses since 2012]. He is currently supervising 6 students, with ongoing research or awaiting thesis submission.

Professor Lip has established a global research training network providing new insights for multi-ethnic Birmingham.  He regularly hosts & supervises overseas research fellows, incl. China, Japan, Poland, Italy, Spain, South Korea, etc. Supervisees have returned to academic ...

Dr David Lissauer

Dr David Lissauer

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

PhD studentship to be advertised investigating ““Villitis of unknown aetiology: a potential process of fetal allograft rejection”

Dr Nanna Holmgaard List

Dr Nanna Holmgaard List

Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry

School of Chemistry

We are always looking to work with highly motivated and talented MSci and graduate students. Specific funded opportunities will be advertised on the group webpage and on the job website when available.

  • Theoretical and computational chemistry
  • Excited-state dynamics
  • Electronic spin-dependent nonadiabatic dynamics
  • Photoactive proteins

If you are interested in research in any of these directions, please reach out to Nanna via the contact details above.

Dr Ian Litchfield

Dr Ian Litchfield

Senior Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Current PhDs

  • The opportunities for early detection of oral cancer in NHS dental setting – co-supervisor (School of Dentistry)

  • The use of Natural Language Processing in the automated detection of patterns in drug-drug interaction – Co-supervisor (School of Computer Science)

Recently completed

  • The use of process involvement methodologies to equip receptionists for their clinical roles in General Practice.


Dr Max A. Little

Dr Max A. Little

Senior Lecturer

School of Computer Science

  • Ugur Kayas, The mathematical structure of deep learning (provisional title), University 麻豆精选, UK, 2018 – present (primary supervisor)

  • Yazan Qarout, Identifying surprising user behavior from wearable devices (provisional title), Aston University, UK, 2018 – present (co-supervisor)

  • Adam Farooq, Bayesian nonparametrics for high dimensional signals (provisional title), Aston University, UK, 2018 – present (co-supervisor)

  • Anna Beukenhorst, Wearable devices for digital epidemiological study of musculosketal diseases (provisional title), University of Manchester, ...

Professor Jeannette Littlemore

Professor Jeannette Littlemore

Professor of Linguistics and Communication

Department of Linguistics and Communication

I have a lively group of PhD students working on metaphor, metonymy and second language learning. I am interested in supervising MA and PhD research in the areas of:

Teaching and learning figurative language
Language learning and cognitive linguistics
Analyzing figurative language



Dr Bowen Liu

Dr Bowen Liu

Assistant Professor in Industrial and Business Economics

Department of Management

Bowen is interested in supervising PhD student across a range of areas including Environmental Economics, Climate Change Economics, Industrial and Business Economics:

1 Air pollution and human (physical &mental) health

2. Globalisation (Trade, FDI) and environment

3. Climate change, human conflict and social stability

4. ESG and firm behaviour

5. Machine learning techniques (text analysis, image recognition, regression / classification) in combination with Econometric (causal inference) methods

Haoyu Liu

Haoyu Liu

Assistant Professor in Supply Chain management

Department of Management

Haoyu is open to applications from candidates who possess a distinguished academic and professional sports background. She is particularly interested in those with a strong desire to build a career in academia, specifically in the domains of sports business management, digital transformation, big data analytics, service ecosystems, the sharing economy, social media and analytics and sustainable supply chain areas. If you foresee your future in these areas and are keen ...

Dr Jing Liu

Dr Jing Liu

Assistant Professor in Accounting

The Department of Accounting

Jing welcomes potential PhD applicants with qualitative research interests in public sector accounting, particularly in, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • Management accounting practice in public sector and not-for-profit organisations;
  • Hospital accounting;
  • Accounting history and accounting practice in Chinese context.