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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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Dr Akira Murakami

Dr Akira Murakami

Birmingham Fellow

Department of Linguistics and Communication

I am keen to supervise PhD research on topics at the interface between corpus linguistics (particularly learner corpus research) and second language acquisition. Please get in touch if you are interested in working with me.

Dr Anthony Murphy

Dr Anthony Murphy

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

School of Psychology

  • Policing
  • Forensic mental health
  • Service-user experience
  • Victims of crime

Professor Paul Murray

Professor Paul Murray

Professor of Molecular Pathology

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy

I have supervised 12 PhD students to graduation. I currently supervise 6 PhD students, mentor 3 post‐doctoral fellows and regularly take undergraduate and Master’s project students.

PhD graduates have gone on to work in highly respected academic institutions or taken up senior positions in industry. For example, Victor Lopes is now running his own successful research group as Professor in the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University ...

Professor Philip Ian Murray

Professor Philip Ian Murray

Professor of Ophthalmology

Department of Inflammation and Ageing

  • PhD Supervisor – clinicians, basic scientists
  • MD Supervisor – clinicians
  • Academic Supervisor – Academic Trainees (NIHR Clinical Lecturer, University Clinical Lecturer, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow)
  • Educational Supervisor – West Midlands’ Ophthalmology Trainees
  • Clinical Supervisor – West Midlands’ Ophthalmology Trainees

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Philip Murray directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

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Dr Fuad Musallam

Dr Fuad Musallam

Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology

Department of African Studies and Anthropology

The Middle East; migrant labour; urban life; activism and social movements; political subjectivity/imagination; affect and emotion; temporality and futurity.

Mona Mustafa

Mona Mustafa

Program Director MSc HRM, Associate Professor

Dubai Campus

Postgraduate students (MSc/PhD) seeking supervision in the following areas can contact Dr Mustafa:

  • Sustainability and productivity in employment and decent work
  • Inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities.
  • Remote working and the future of work
  • Work/life balance
  • Expatriate Management and third culture kids
  • Artificial intelligence and its impact on education
  • Workplace health and safety and wellbeing at work

Dr Richard Mycroft

Dr Richard Mycroft

Senior Lecturer

School of Mathematics

Richard Mycroft has acted as principal supervisor for four PhD students, and as co-supervisor for a further five PhD students. He is always keen to hear from any prospective students who are interested in PhD study in Combinatorics.

Professor Kevin Myers

Professor Kevin Myers

Professor in History and Education

School of Education

Kevin welcomes enquiry from prospective students in the history and sociology of education.

Current students:

  • 2021-. Talia Sanchez (ESRC 1+3 studentship, PhD) Gender and Pedagogy in Black Britain. 
  • 2020-. Manning Luo (PhD). Education, Social Class and Boarding Schools Students in China.

Successful submission: 

  • 2018-2022. Elizabeth Staddon (PhD). Money, Morality and Markets in Higher Education. 
  • 2015 -2021. Kate Bennett. (PhD). Education, Informal Learning and Museums. 
  • 2012 - 2020. Alison Laitner. (PhD). ...