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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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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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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 of Cardiovascular Genetics
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Neil is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Gene identification of inherited bleeding disorders
- Next generation sequencing technologies in human disease gene identification
- Platelet and Megakaryocyte Biology of novel disease genes mutated in inherited thrombocytopenia
- Phenotyping and functional testing of Bleeding Disorders of Unknown Cause (BDUC)
Current PhD students: Zoe Markham-Lee, Natasha Pavey, Ravinder Bhardwaj
Current Postdoctoral research fellows: Dr Xenia Sawkulycz
Alumni PhD students: Ben Johnson, ...

Senior Lecturer in Dental Public Health
School of Dentistry
Water fluoridation impact
Dental fluorosis
Oral cancer

Associate Professor in Mathematical Analysis
School of Mathematics
Andrew is interested in supervising postgraduate research students in harmonic analysis, operator theory and partial differential equations. Some example projects include those given below.

Professor of Computational Physics
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Density-functional theory, battery applications, first principles modelling and spectroscopy.

Assistant Professor of Industrial Economics
Department of Management
Supervises doctoral students using applied econometrics techniques to assess microlevel issues related innovation, entrepreneurship, climate change, and energy.

Professor of Molecular Genetics
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Dr Morris currently supervises doctoral researchers in the following areas:
Ubiquitin pathways in the mammalian DNA damage response
BRCA1 missense gene changes and the link to breast and ovarian cancer

Head 麻豆精选 Clinical Trials Unit
Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine
Honorary Consultant Maternal Fetal Medicine, Birmingham Women鈥檚 and Children鈥檚 Hospital
Department of Applied Health Sciences
- Supervision of PhD and MRes students
- Supervision of non-clinical Masters and intercalating students
- Supervision of Clinical PhD students
- Supervision of Advanced Specialist training in Maternal and Fetal Medicine

Associate Professor in Astronomy
School of Physics and Astronomy
PhD supervision in exoplanet detection, radial velocity extraction, Sun-as-a-star studies, and stellar atmospheres.

Barling Professor of Surgery
Head of Surgery
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Theses Supervised
Table of Research Students, Thesis Titles and Dates of Award
Name of Student and Thesis Title
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Degree Award Date
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Yvonne Wallis
Phenotype genotype correlation in FAP
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PhD (Birmingham) 1996
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Shaheen Chughtai
Studies of putative tumour suppressor genes on C8p
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PhD (Birmingham) 1999
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Michael Kuo
“Tumour suppressor gene studies in head and neck cancers”
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PhD (Birmingham) 1999
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Mohammed A Mohammed
Evaluating the process of care |
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Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Katharina is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
Comparative Law
Personal Insolvency Law
Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting an official application.

Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology
Department of Theology and Religion
Gospel of Mark
Early Christianity
Martyrdom
Resurrection and Afterlife in the New Testament and Early Christianity
Reception History
Ancient Medicine and the New Testament
Disability Studies and the Bible
Greco-Roman influence on the New Testament and Early Christianity
Influence of the Bible in contemporary affairs
Ancient Slavery