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.
麻豆精选 results for “legal education”
Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.
Associate Professor in Law (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
I am looking to supervise doctoral candidates in areas of criminal evidence, ethics (values) and legal education/mentoring in pedagogical curricula designs that enhances student learning and teacher reflection.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...
Professor of Translator Education
Head of School of Language, Culture, Art History and Music
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Department of Modern Languages
I have wide-ranging interests across the field of Translation Studies. My current PhD students are working in translation competence, translation industry requirements, ego-targeting in tourism translation, measurement of translator style using computational methods, the use of AI in legal translation and the use and translation of evaluative adjectives in tourism translation.
Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law
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
Practitioner Tutor
School of Education
She has previously supervised the following doctoral level work: the views of men in primary school teaching; male mental health; universal design for learning in SEND; the lived experience of a visually impaired lecturer; the lived experience of a care leaver with SEND; careers advice for individuals with SEND.
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:
鈥� Digital asset regulation
鈥� African customary law in juridical settings
鈥� Gender equality and sentencing
鈥� Decolonising IP law
Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution
Co-Deputy Head of Education (Education Review)
Birmingham Law School
dispute resolution, private international law
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Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement
Director of IRiS
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Nando welcomes proposals for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the following areas:
- Forced displacement and globalisation
- Sociology of statelessness
- Dual citizenship and the experiences of dual citizens
- The intersection between migration, rights and citizenship
- Everyday experiences of superdiversity
- Neoliberalism, globalisation and governance of human mobility
- The politics of refugee voices and silences
- Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism
- Undocumented migrants and experiences of ‘illegality’ through generations
- Child and family migration
- Transnationalism and ...
Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law
Honorary Professor of Quaker Studies
Director, Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
The Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies has around 20 MA by Research/ PhD students and is the leading centre worldwide in research into Quakerism. There is a staff team of 14 supervisors and we can supervise in most areas of Quaker studies: history, theology, philosophy, sociology, literary studies and Quaker values in education.
My own research interests lie particularly in the sociology of religion and the sociology of sects. For ...
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 ...