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 Taghi Miri

Dr Taghi Miri

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)

School of Chemical Engineering

Dr Miri supervises PhD and MSc research projects related to Food Engineering, including Novel Food Processing and Food Safety, as well as Circular Economy and Environmental Engineering.





Professor Paolo Missier

Professor Paolo Missier

Director of the Institute for Data and AI
Chair in Computer and Data Science

School of Computer Science

Paolo has supervised eight PhD students while at Newcastle, all successfully graduated. Paolo is still actively supervising three students from Newcastle, and he is open to new PhD supervision with his new role at Birmingham.

Dr Andrea Mitchell

Dr Andrea Mitchell

Research Fellow

Institute of Microbiology and Infection

  • Currently jointly supervise 1 PhD student

Professor Rebecca N Mitchell

Professor Rebecca N Mitchell

Professor in Victorian Literature and Culture
Head of Department of English Literature

Department of English Literature

I am willing to supervise PhD projects related to Victorian literature and culture, especially print history, text/image interface, Oscar Wilde, George Meredith, George Eliot, empathy and affect studies, and fashion. I am also affiliated with the Sexuality and Gender Studies Programme and welcome related projects.

Dr Sebastian Mitchell

Dr Sebastian Mitchell

Senior Lecturer in English Literature

Department of English Literature

I supervise PhD students on a range of literary and cross-disciplinary subjects, some with AHRC M4C funding. I have recent postgraduate research projects completed on confessional writing in the Romantic age, a trans-historical study of the literary reception of Samuel Johnson, and an examination of Gaelic, Latin and English Jacobite writing in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. I have ongoing projects on scriptural allusion in the novels of ...

Dr Richard Moakes

Dr Richard Moakes

Lecturer in Healthcare Materials

School of Chemical Engineering

Dr Moakes supervises a range on inter-disciplinary projects spanning the translational medicine field. He and his team warmly welcome applications from keen and motivated individuals who share a fascination of science.

Research opportunities

Please contact Richard to discuss possible PhD and MSc research opportunities. Funded positions will be advertised on findaphd.com and through the HTI twitter account.

Miss Rana Moeini

Miss Rana Moeini

Marie Curie Research Fellow

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Rana supports MSc projects that are in her research area.

Dr Ahmed Mohammed

Associate Professor in Supply chain management
Programme director for the MSc Supply chain management

Dubai Campus

Ahmed is interesting in supervising students who have the following research interests:

  • ICT in Supply Chain Management
  • Operations research
  • Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain Management
  • Food Waste Management
  • Last Mile delivery
  • Decision making Analysis
  • Multi-objective optimization
  • Supplier selection
  • Circular Economy
  • Industry 4.0 in SCM
  • MCDM (e.g., AHP; TOPSIS, VIKOR, DEMATEL)

 

Dr Fiyaz Mohammed

Lecturer in Biomedical Structural Biology

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy

Dr Mohammed supervises PhD and MSc students.

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Fiyaz Mohammed 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 John Mohan

Professor John Mohan

Professor of Social Policy
Director of the Third Sector Research Centre

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Professor Mohan has recently been involved in supervision of research into the following fields:

Social enterprise approaches to health inequalities
Lifecourse approaches to the study of volunteering
Longitudinal studies of volunteering
Policy towards volunteering, past and present




Dr Mike Molesworth

Dr Mike Molesworth

Associate Professor in Marketing

Department of Marketing

Mike Molesworth Is an experienced PhD supervisor. He is interested in supervising projects related to:

  • Critical marketing
  • Consumer culture, especially related to digital media
  • Psychoanalytic approaches to consumer culture, or marketing
  • Corporate responsibility, especially related to new technology

Dr Mark Monahan

Dr Mark Monahan

Lecturer in Health Economics

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Current Doctoral supervision

  • Ayesha Iqbal: Health economics of maternal and infant health interventions: methodologies and economic evaluations. Lead supervisor with Professor Tracy Roberts (co-supervisor). Started May 2025 (Part-time)

Past supervision

  • Nadiath Chowdery.NIHR pre-doctoral fellowship: 10/2024-10/2025. Co-supervisor with Professor Sue Jowett (lead).

Mark is interested in supervising doctoral research related to the following topics:

  • Model-based economic evaluations
  • Aspects of economic evaluation in surgical diseases
  • Health State Valuation for use in economic ...