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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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Professor of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
School of Chemical Engineering
Paula M Mendes is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Molecular diagnostics
- Biosensors
- Development of materials to prevent biofouling
- Synthetic tools for glycan analysis and detection
- Synthesis and characterisation of functional nanoparticles
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science
Dr Mesquita supervises PhD students interested in optical imaging and neuroimaging analysis and/or instrumentation.
Prospective students are always welcome to get in touch through email.
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Writing
Department of Film and Creative Writing
Innovative projects in prose fiction
Professor of Infrastructure Monitoring
Director of the National Buried Infrastructure Facility
Department of Civil Engineering
Currently, Nicole supervises the following research projects:
- Multi-sensor approach: Can Quantum Technology gravity be combined with other (non QT) geophysical instrumentation to set constraints for gravity inversion (PhD, 2017-2023)
- Acoustic signal transmission along a buried pipe (PhD, 2014 – 2020)
- Development of advanced AI- assisted computational routines to infer quantum technology sensors’ data (2019-2022)
- Real-time gravity processing using QT gravity sensors – optimisation of quality control and survey strategies (2019-2024) ...
Associate Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience
International Lead
School of Psychology
Dr Mevorach is accepting applications from graduate students all year long in topics related to the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Students should be knowledgeable about neuroscience, and ideally have some experience with brain imaging or brain stimulation. Students interested in attention intervention projects are also welcome to apply.
Current PhD students:
- Orli Azulai - Orli is an external student (Tel Aviv University) co-supervised with Prof. Lilach Shalev. Her PhD work focuses on ...
Dean, Birmingham Business School
Social Sciences
Leadership
Team work
Online pedagogy
Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics
School of Mathematics
John supervises PhD students in applied mathematics, MSc Financial Engineering (16 dissertations supervised) and MSc Mathematical Modelling (2 dissertations supervised).
Emeritus Professor of Motor Neuroscience
School of Psychology
Chris Miall is not taking on any new doctoral research students at the moment.
Associate Professor
Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Global Fellow
School of Psychology
Current PhD students
Jess Williams “Understanding the role of self-stigma and shame in suicidality and self-harm among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning young people: a mixed methods study” (ESRC DTP funded).
Margaret Hardiman “Understanding the development and experience of self-harm in young Pakistani women in Karachi and Birmingham” (University 麻豆精选 Global Challenges Scholarship).
Matt Horrocks “The development of an electronic clinical decision support system to support ...
Professor of Medical Oncology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Gary is currently supervising six PhD students and is particularly interested in training students on tumour immunobiology and defining novel targets for the treatment of lung cancer.
Systems Thinking and Leadership Practitioner
Birmingham Leadership Institute
- Systemic Leadership
- Systems Thinking
- Systemic Action Research
- Communicating systems thinking and systemic leadership.
- Community Operational Research
- Power relations in the context of systemic leadership and systems practice
- Conflict and marginalization processes
- The neuroscience and social psychology of perception, emotion and consciousness applied to the development of systems methodology
- Methodological pluralism / multimethodology / mixed-method research
- Applied projects in any area of policy or practice where the pursuit of public, community ...
Assistant Professor in Education Studies
School of Education
I accept doctoral students whose research interests focus on educational equity and justice, centering the lived experiences of marginalised communities living at the intersection of multiple forms of oppressions.