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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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Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
PhD scholarships are available for candidates who are interested in fibre-polymer composite materials and structures.
Chair in International Business
The Department of Strategy and International Business
Currently supervising PhD research in the following areas:
- Cross-border merger and acquisitions by emerging market firms
- Political risk and Subsidiary performance
- Open innovation and firm performance
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
- Innovation in the context of transition economies
- The internationalization strategy of emerging market firms
- International knowledge transfer/spillovers, outward foreign direct investment and human mobility
Assistant Professor
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
During her PhD and postdoctoral studies, Dr Llibre has been involved in the supervision of:
- MSc students (5)
- PhD students (2)
Associate Professor in Forensic Psychology
School of Psychology
Students wishing to enquire about post-graduate supervision at the University should contact her via her University e mail.
Senior Lecturer
School of Mathematics
Allan Lo is happy to hear from any students who are interested in PhD study in Combinatorics.
Professor of Decision Neuroscience
School of Psychology
PhD students: Students interested in working with Professor Lockwood should email her to discuss potential funding opportunities. For further information regarding the PhD application process see the 'how to apply' section of the Psychology PhD programme.
Postdoctoral researchers: Professor Lockwood is also looking for excellent and motivated postdoctoral researchers and can advise and assist with obtaining funding. Please contact her to discuss further.
Professor of English Literature
Department of English Literature
I welcome enquiries from prospective graduate students across the range of my teaching and research interests.
I have been the lead or co-supervisor for a number of students who have completed their doctorates:
Wendy Trevor, whose thesis explored the varieties of dramatised male friendship in the early modern period, and is now Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs at Maria College, NY ;
Natalie Aldred, who edited William Haughton's play, ...
Professor of Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics
School of Biosciences
Nick Loman works as an Independent Research Fellow in the Institute for Microbiology and Infection at the University 麻豆精选, sponsored by a seven-year MRC Fellowship in Microbial Genomics Bioinformatics. His research explores the use of cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics approaches to the diagnosis, treatment and surveillance of infectious disease. Dr Loman has so far used high-throughput sequencing to investigate outbreaks of important Gram-negative multi-drug resistant pathogens, and recently helped ...
Lecturer in Combinatorics
School of Mathematics
Eoin is interested in supervising PhD students in Combinatorics. Please get in touch via email.
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Heather supervises students in the areas of viral and cancer immunology, including:
- Understanding T cell control of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
- The role of T cells in the control of EBV-associated lymphoma
- Uncovering biomarkers of lymphoma
- Lymphocyte infiltration into cancer
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Heather Long directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
Associate Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
RECENT PhD STUDENTS
- Richard Mason, Current, “Pyrochlore Magnetism”
- Matthew Brammall, 2010, “Orbital Ordering in strongly correlated metals”
- Melanie Hopper, 2010, “Surface magnetism of frustrated magnets”
- Mike Hawkins, 2009, “Conservation laws in integrable systems”
- Paul Guest, 2006, “Anisotropic motion in correlated metals”
- Morgan Harvey, 2005,“Combined spin and orbital ordering”
- James Champion, 2004, “Heavy fermions”
- Iain Styles, 2003, “High temperature superconductors"
Professor of English Literature
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education)
Department of English Literature
At postgraduate level I have specialist teaching and supervisory expertise in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature.
I welcome applications for study in the following areas:
Literary modernism
The city and urban theory
Women鈥檚 writing (particularly of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, May Sinclair, Edith Sitwell)
The nineteenth and/or early twentieth-century novel