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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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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Professor Danny McGowan

Professor Danny McGowan

Professor of Finance
Head of the Department of Finance

The Department of Finance

  • Samuel James
  • Zainab Al-Gabr

I have previously advised four PhD students to completion: Arisyi Fariza Raz, Seyit Gokmen, Huyen Nguyen and Piotr Danisewicz. All have been subsequently found jobs at universities.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD, feel free to contact me. I am mainly interested in working on topics related to banking, mortgage markets and household finance that have a strong focus on quasi-experimental research methods.

Dr Kieren McGuffin

Dr Kieren McGuffin

Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)

Birmingham Law School

Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:

Migration
Refugee Law


Professor Jean V. McHale

Professor of Health Care Law

Birmingham Law School

Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,

Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research






Dr Maeve McHugh

Dr Maeve McHugh

Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology

I am available to discuss research projects on any of the major research interests: ancient agriculture; ancient landscapes; pedestrian landscape survey; and lives of non-elites in antiquity.

Dr Gemma McKenna

Dr Gemma McKenna

Assistant Professor
Advisor at the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS)

Health Services Management Centre

Supervision interests include;

  • Youth mental health policy and practice
  • School-based mental health and wellbeing
  • Personal experiences of health/mental health and illness
  • Access to urgent and emergency care, particularly for vulnerable groups
  • Co-design and public involvement in service delivery, using qualitative approaches (citizen panels and creative design)
  • Health policy and innovative health system changes, working with NHS workforce and patients
  • Patient decision makings aids, especially projects using qualitative methods

Claire Mcloughlin

Claire Mcloughlin

Associate Professor

International Development Department

Public services, state (de-)legitimation, the politics of public goods distribution

Dr Shane McLoughlin

Dr Shane McLoughlin

Associate Professor of Character Education

School of Education

MA Character Education dissertations on:

  • Virtue development
  • Well-being
  • Psychometric validation
  • Intervention designs

Dr Christel McMullan

Dr Christel McMullan

Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Christel has co-supervised one doctoral research students to completion and is currently supervising three others. Their projects, using qualitative and mixed-methods, focus on ePROs in renal care and real-world evidence.

Christel is interested in supervising further doctoral research students who are planning to use qualitative within their research. If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Christel directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please ...

Professor Alan McNally

Professor Alan McNally

Head of School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology
Professor in Microbial Evolutionary Genomics

School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology

Alan has successfully supervised 9 PhD students. He is interested to hear from students interested in undertaking a PhD in the fields of:

  • Population genomics of multi-drug resistant E. coli
  • Evolution of antimicrobial resistance in gram negative pathogens
  • Evolution of pathogenesis in the Yersinia genus
  • Experimental evolution of MDR plasmid carriage in gram negative pathogens

If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Alan ...

Professor Daniel McNeil

Professor Daniel McNeil

Stuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Professor Daniel McNeil is available to supervise graduate students and postdoctoral researchers working in interdisciplinary areas that intersect with Black Studies, Cultural Studies, and Public Humanities. He welcomes students from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in exploring the cultural, political, and historical dimensions of race, migration, and identity. Professor McNeil is particularly interested in supervising projects related to:

  • Black Atlantic History and Diaspora Studies
  • Migration and Multiculturalism
  • Cultural Studies ...

Dr Luis Medina Cordova

Dr Luis Medina Cordova

Lecturer in Modern Languages (Spanish)

Department of Modern Languages

I am interested in supervising doctoral projects on Latin American cultural production broadly, but particularly in the following areas:

- Latin American literature, mainly 20th century and contemporary

- Ecuadorian Literature

-World Literature from Latin American perspectives

-Intersections of economics and Latin American cultural production

-Covid-19 Narratives in Latin America









Professor Nikolay Mehandjiev

Professor Nikolay Mehandjiev

Vice Provost Research

Dubai Campus

Nikolay has supervised more than 25 Doctoral students to successful completion, and has acted as external PhD examiner for nine Universities in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Italy.  He has also supervised over 50 MSc Dissertations.