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 theory”

Professor Chris Thornhill

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 Sudan; Constitutional Reform in ...

Dr Lydia Morgan

Dr Lydia Morgan

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 Rosie Harding

Professor Rosie Harding

Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean

Birmingham Law School

Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:

- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor of International Law & Human Rights

Birmingham Law School

Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.

Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili

Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili

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






Dr Iyan Offor

Dr Iyan Offor

Assistant Professor in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development

Birmingham Law School

Iyan welcomes proposals for postgraduate research within his areas of research expertise outlined above and below.

Iyan is currently supervising the following PhD research:

Mo Esan: Investigating the History, Text and Implementation of the Animal Welfare Strategy for Africa through the lens of Third World Approaches to International Law

Samuel Hazle: Reforming Animal Law through an Intersectional Lens: Law鈥檚 Humanizing Function, Socio-Legal Justice Movements, and the Ongoing Battle to Enable ...





Dr Alex Latham-Gambi

Dr Alex Latham-Gambi

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 ...















Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani

Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani

Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics

Department of Theology and Religion

I welcome proposals across Islamic Studies, especially in Islamic law and ethics, that engage the textual resources of the Islamic intellectual traditions.

Current doctoral supervision

The phenomena of Maddhab change amongst Sunni legal schools in the Mamluk period
Spiritual striving in British Muslim Shia communities
Previous doctoral supervision
The Origins of Im膩m墨 岣d墨th: A Bio-bibliographical Cross-reference Analysis
Taqi al-Din al-Subki on ijtihad and the role of the Qur鈥檃n in his ...







Dr Shaimaa Abdelkarim

Dr Shaimaa Abdelkarim

Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)

Birmingham Law School

Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥 Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥 Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥 Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥 Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥 Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥 Law and Abolitionist Praxis







Professor Karen McAuliffe

Professor Karen McAuliffe

Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow

Birmingham Law School

Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:

The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...





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 Shahab Saqib

Dr Shahab Saqib

Assistant Professor in Law

Birmingham Law School

Discrimination Law
International Human Rights Law
Critical Legal Studies
Citizenship Studies
Migration
Islamic Law
Pakistan Law





Mr Neeraj Lal

Mr Neeraj Lal

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 Patricia Lalor (Trish)

Professor Patricia Lalor (Trish)

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.

 

 

Dr Hubert Lam

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 Gabriel Landini

Professor Gabriel Landini

Professor of Analytical Pathology and Head of Oral Pathology Unit

School of Dentistry

Gabriel is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Quantitative microscopy of oral cancer and oral mucosa ageing.
  • Development of intelligent imaging methods for histological image interpretation.
  • Biological object segmentation, image enhancement and digital staining.
  • Analysis and computer modeling of cell mixing in heterogeneous populations in vitro.

For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.


Professor Peter Lane

Professor Peter Lane

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 Peter Langdon

Professor Peter  Langdon

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.

Dr Knut Lange

Dr Knut Lange

Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business

The Department of Strategy and International Business

I welcome PhD applications that employ qualitative research methods in the following areas:

  • SME internationalisation
  • Internationalisation support mechanisms 
  • Institutional approaches to internatiional business (e.g. comparative country studies)
  • The Blue Economy and international business
  • Geopolitics and international business
  • Innovation and international business (including both radical and incremental innovations)

Dr Richard Langley

Dr Richard Langley

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.

Dr Chris Laoutaris

Dr Chris Laoutaris

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 ...

Professor Daniel Lasserson

Professor Daniel Lasserson

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

Dr Alex Latham-Gambi

Dr Alex Latham-Gambi

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 ...















Dr Ryan Latimer

Dr Ryan Latimer

Associate Professor in Music

I am currently supervising postgraduate composers completing composition portfolios and dissertations. I would be happy to supervise students interested in instrumental/vocal composition and interdisciplinary collaboration.