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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Professor of Criminal Law
Head of Research (Law)
Birmingham Law School
John is interested in doctoral candidates in criminal law doctrine and theory, comparative criminal law, and/or criminal law and neuroscience.
John's previous successful doctoral students include:
* Rachel Gimson, 鈥楥aptured red handed: the impact of social media on the evolving concepts of the criminal defendant and the presumption of innocence鈥� - Completed in 2016;
* Stavros Demetriou, 'Anti-Social Behaviour and Civil Preventive Measures: Creating Localised Criminal Codes?' - Completed in ...
Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...
Reader in Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School
European Criminal Law
European Criminal Justice
Comparative criminal and criminal procedure law
Structural Developments in Criminal Justice
Terrorism 鈥� Phenomena and Responses
Trafficking Human Beings
Current doctoral students:
The Challenges Associated with Identifying Victims of Trafficking Human Beings 鈥� Matthew Davis
The Suitability of Trial by Jury for Trafficking in Persons Cases 鈥� Jack Murphy
Assistant Professor in International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
International Humanitarian Law (the law of armed conflict), International Criminal Law, Transnational Criminal Law (to include cross-border crimes, such as trafficking and piracy)
International law and global legal studies (to include conflicts, transitional justice, international criminal law)
Professor of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
鈥� Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
鈥� The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
鈥� Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
鈥� John Austin鈥檚 theory of law
鈥� Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, 鈥楻econsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...
Associate Professor in Law and Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School
criminal law, criminal procedure, terrorism, counter-terrorism, police, disproportionality in the criminal justice system, stop and search, jury diversity
Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
鈥� Law and development (especially in Latin America)
鈥� Law and political economy
鈥� Gender, sexuality, and law
鈥� Gambling regulation
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
Associate Professor
Director of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
Dr Coe welcomes expressions of interest for prospective PhD students in his areas of interest, and the field of Media Law more broadly.
Professor of Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School
Anthea has supervised research students in many aspects of criminal justice in the UK and internationally. She welcomes applications from UK and international students interested in any area of criminal justice including, but not limited to, electronic monitoring, pre-trial detention and bail, police powers, courts, prisons, community sentences, technologies and private and voluntary sector involvement in criminal justice.
Associate Professor of Law
Deputy Head of Postgraduate Research & PGR Mentor
Birmingham Law School
Anti-Human Trafficking Law
International Investment Law
Sports Law
Birmingham Fellow in Molecular Physiology and Biochemistry
Director of Mitochondrial Profiling Centre
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
If you are interested in joining Yu-Chiang’s research group, please contact him directly through email with a brief motivation letter and CV.
Email: y.lai.1@bham.ac.uk
Birmingham Fellow in Molecular Physiology and Biochemistry
Director of Mitochondrial Profiling Centre
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
If you are interested in joining Yu-Chiang’s research group, please contact him directly through email with a brief motivation letter and CV.
Email: y.lai.1@bham.ac.uk
Academic Clinical Lecturer in General Surgery
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Neeraj is supervising multiple clinical and non-clinical PhD students. He is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Solid tumour genetics/biology
- Molecular pathology
- Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
Professor in Experimental Hepatology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Professor Lalor has several current students on clinical, academic and industry funded programmes.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Patricia Lalor directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.
Lecturer In Environmental And Occupational Epidemiology
Hubert supervises a number of MSc dissertation projects every year. He is also co-supervising a doctoral project on the reanalysis of time-series studies on the health effects of air pollution.
Professor of Analytical Pathology and Head of Oral Pathology Unit
School of Dentistry
Professor Landini is interested in supervising doctoral researchers in the following areas:
Quantitative microscopy of oral cancer and oral mucosa ageing
Intelligent imaging methods for histological image interpretation
Biological object segmentation, image enhancement and digital staining
Analysis and computer modelling of cell mixing in heterogeneous populations in vitro
Professor of Immunology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
- Supervisor MRC Clinician Scientist Gwilym Webb (2015- )
- Supervisor Wellcome Trust Phd Emily Halford (2012-2016)
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Peter Lane directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.
Professor of Clinical Psychology
Health Services Management Centre
Professor Langdon would welcome opportunities to supervise PhD students and trainee clinical psychologists who are interested in undertaking projects involving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This includes projects that focus upon criminal offending risk and/or forensic mental health as well as mental health.
Head of Department of Film and Creative Writing
Associate Professor in Film
I am currently supervising several audio-visual dissertations of students on the Film and Television MA.
I am interested in working with students interested in Film production; documentary; digital media; audio-visual academia; social action filmmaking.
Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare
Shakespeare Institute
I am currently supervising or co-supervising subjects as diverse as Shakespeare鈥檚 military spouses; Shakespeare in applied theatre settings; Shakespeare and the body; and the menopausal female body in Shakespeare. I have also been involved in the supervision of doctoral students in the following areas: infanticide in Early Modern England; elite female self-starvers in Renaissance England; and Shakespeare and Domestic Tragedy. I would be interested in hearing from prospective doctoral students ...
Honorary Professor of Ambulatory Care
Academic/Clinical
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Lasserson is available for PhD supervision in mixed methods research in acute clinical settings
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥� Constitutional theory
鈥� Legal/political philosophy
鈥� Public law
鈥� Human rights law
鈥� Housing law
Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.
Current PhD students:
Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review
Past PhD students:
Sylvester ...