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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Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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 William E. Moody

Dr William E. Moody

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.

Dr Alice Moore

Dr Alice Moore

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

Dr Cerwyn Moore

Dr Cerwyn Moore

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 Daniel Moore

Professor Daniel Moore

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.

Dr David Moore

Dr David Moore

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.

Dr Chris Moores

Dr Chris Moores

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 Caroline Moraes

Professor Caroline Moraes

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 Dominique Moran

Professor Dominique Moran

Professor in Carceral Geography

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Carceral Geography

Dr Kirsty Moreton

Dr Kirsty Moreton

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 ...

Dr Steve Morewood

Dr Steve Morewood

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 ...

Professor Peter Morey

Professor Peter Morey

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.

Dr Carleigh Morgan

Dr Carleigh Morgan

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 ...