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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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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.

Assistant Professor in Public Management and Public Policy
Department of Public Administration and Policy
- Public contracts and procurement
- Commercialisation and marketisation of public services
- Cross-sector partnerships
- Policy implementation
- Digital government

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 vulnerability
• Craft consumption and marketing
• Ethical, sustainable and responsible consumption
• Food insecurity
• Prosumption
• Responsible marketing
• Social marketing
• Creative approaches to qualitative consumer 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
Steve Morewood's research interests include the military, political and strategic history of the modern East Mediterranean region (late19th and 20th centuries). He has supervised several PhDs to a successful conclusion with some students going on to publish their dissertations in book form. Topics have included the Greek press during the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22, Turkey and the Straits in the early Cold War period and the Greek-Cypriot perspective in the ...

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.

Assistant Professor in Film
Department of Film and Creative Writing
I invite expressions of interest from doctoral students interested in receiving co-supervision on projects engaging any of the following topics:
animation, production studies, new media, cinematic materiality, video games, film history, feminist theory, labour, art history, digital culture, visual effects, expanded cinemas, and philosophies of film and media.
Previous supervisions
I have supervised students completing dissertations at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level; subject matter ranged from an undergraduate dissertation ...