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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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Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Rui supervises undergraduate and postgraduate Master (MSc, MRes) and PhD students in the following areas of research:
- The role of transcriptional and epigenetic regulators in endothelial and haematopoietic development
- The role of endothelial and haemogenic-specific cis-regulatory elements in zebrafish
- Screening of modifiers of blood stem cell fitness, survival and differentiation
- In vivo modelling of the genetic basis of human disease in zebrafish
If you are interested in studying any of ...

Professor of Social Intervention
Cross Whitehall Trials Panel Advisor and Affiliate Professor at the Department of Family Studies, University of Malta
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Prof Montgomery-Marks has supervised over 20 doctoral students to successful completion and is currently supervising PhD projects looking at a range of social work intervention and social policy topics in collaboration with other members of the department.

Honorary Senior Lecturer
Consultant Cardiologist – Imaging and Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Open to postgraduate supervision.
Expert examiner to a number of internal and external PhD fellows.

Associate Professor in International Relations
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Dr Moore is happy to supervise students in any area of International Relations theory (especially interpretive IR; narratives, hermeneutics and aesthetics), and research students interested in post-Soviet security, and war, terrorism and insurgency linked to the North Caucasus.

Professor of English Literature
Head of English Drama and Creative Studies
Department of English Literature
I supervise students who work in my period of research expertise. These have included projects on Wilkie Collins and Medicine, on Egyptology in late nineteenth century culture, on the Birmingham Group of writers in the 1930s, and a number of other projects on modernist fiction. I’d be very interested in receiving PhD proposals from prospective students working across the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Senior Lecturer
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Moore is interested in supervising doctoral research students in areas of, or containing, health technology assessment, evidence synthesis and systematic reviews. He has a particular interest in eye health/disease.
Dr Moore has successfully supervised and continues to supervise, PhD/MD students.

Senior Lecturer
Contemporary History
Department of History
I am happy to discuss supervision in subjects relating to my research interests. Feel free to get in touch to talk about research ideas or potential projects.
I currently co-supervise the work of Emma Barrett, Katie Jones, Ellie Munro, Martha Robinson Rhodes and Chelsea-Anne Saxby.

Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research
Co-Director of the Centre for Responsible Business
Department of Marketing
Current research topics of interest include:• Community consumption• Consumer boycotts and buycotts• Consumer resistance• Consumption in degrowth futures• Consumption and the circular economy• Craft consumption and marketing• Ethical, sustainable and responsible consumption• Food and financial insecurity• Prosumption• Responsible marketing• Social marketing• Creative approaches to qualitative consumer research• Ethnographic research

Professor in Carceral Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Carceral Geography

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, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

Associate Professor in International History
Department of History
Topics concerning the origins of the Second World War, the early part of that conflict in the Mediterranean and Middle East, and the Suez Crisis are of particular interest.
In 2025 a PhD on British Leyland was completed (co-supervised with Drs. Dick and Francis). Past supervisions have included the role of the Greek press during the Greek-Turkish War (1920-22), subsequently published as a monograph, and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus ...

Chair in 20th Century English Literature
Department of English Literature
I have experience of supervising PhD students working on South Asian diaspora literature, and globalisation and literature.
I welcome research proposals in these areas, and also on questions of narrative and power; literature and cultural difference; literature and the War on Terror; and writing on Muslim minorities in the West.