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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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Clinical Tutor in Clinical Psychology
Msci Psychology and Psychological Practice Programme Lead
Teresa is involved in the supervision of clinical psychology doctorate research projects.

Associate Professor in Marketing
Programme Director, Distance Learning MBA
Department of Marketing
Currently receiving applications for postgraduate students in the broad topics of (ir)responsible consumers, companies, tourists and employees.

Assistant Professor in Systems Chemistry
School of Chemistry
Systems Chemistry
Physical Organic Chemistry
Soft Matter

Associate Professor in Business Analytics
Department of Management
Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji has supervised many PG dissertations (over 100) and PhD thesis (over 15 completions). Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji is eager to participate in PhD application in the following topics:
1) Game Theory in Business and Management
2) Decision Making in Business and management
3) Sustainable Logistics and Global Supply Chains

Professor in Engineering Education
Deputy Head, School of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Aziza is currently supervising projects linked to engineering education.

Professor of Electroacoustic Composition and Practice
Department of Music
Electroacoustic music
Acousmatic composition
Multichannel composition including ambisonics
Spatialisation and diffusion
Field-Recording and phonography
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Site-specific composition and installation
Assistant Professor in Accounting & Finance
The Department of Finance
Dr. Mak currently undertaking research projects about International Financial Reporting Standards in China, Latin America and Europe, corporate restructuring activities, corporate site visiting, financial analysts’ earnings forecasts and asset pricing models.
Ph.D. applicants are very welcome, in particular if they are interested in the above topic areas and with computer programming skills.

Lecturer in Accounting & Finance
The Department of Finance
Ph.D graduate’s first placement:
Lecturer in Accounting and Finance, Department of Accounting, Swansea School of Management, Swansea University, UK.
Ph.D. Supervision:
Number of completed supervision: 1, completed on 19th June, 2014.
Number of lead supervision: 1, is going to be completed on 14th July, 2017.
Number of second supervision: 2
M Phil graduate’s placement:
Officer of Brazilian government.
M.Phil Supervision:
Number of completed supervision: 1, completed ...

Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
School of Chemistry
Josh is always happy to discuss potential research projects with interested students, who should contact him on the email address above. Projects are available in the following areas:
- New catalysts for ammonia synthesis and decomposition
- Ionic conductivity in metal amides/imides
- Synthesis of silicon imide materials
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.

Head of Quality Assurance
Lecturer in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
SPECS Programme Lead
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Kiki currently supervises a number of PhD and MSc students in the areas of Inclusion in Physical Education, Mental Health and Wellbeing, and Continuing Professional Development (both formal and informal learning) for Physical Education (PE) teachers.
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Kiki directly to discuss project availability and your research interests.

Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies
Department of Modern Languages
I welcome applications from PhD students in any of my areas of interest, especially the following:
corpus-based translation studies in general
translation and language change (esp. use of diachronic corpora in translation studies)
translation of tourism texts
translation of visual material
Past and current PhD projects include:
Edward Clay, ‘Understanding Translation as a Site of Contact-Induced Language Change in the Field of Migration’
HAH, ‘A Corpus-Based Investigation of Translator Style ...

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr Malboubi has supervised Postdocs, PhD and MSc research projects related to Microfluidics, Cell Mechanics, Neuronal electrophysiology and 3D printing.