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 of Psychology of Language and Language Learning
Department of Modern Languages
I welcome applications from PhD students in any of my areas of interest, especially the following:
The role of learning in language behaviour and language description (e.g., comprehension and production, foreign language learning, reading and others).
Understanding/describing language as a complex dynamic system, its relationships with other cognitive systems (e.g., perception, memory, problem solving).
The dyads of language-communication and cognition-conceptualisation as pillars of human (social) adaptation.
I currently co-supervise the ...

Director of the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC)
Professor of Health Organisation and Management
Health Services Management Centre
Ross is interested in PhD supervision across the following research areas:
Quality improvement
Safety
Inter-organisational collaboration
Governance
He specialises in the use of qualitative research methods.
Senior Lecturer
School of Chemical Engineering
- Supercritical drying of food products (EPSRC)
- Drying and rehydration of emulsion systems (EPSRC)
- 3D Printing of edible materials (EPSRC)
- Fluid gel emulsion systems (Industry Funded)
- Understanding the key drivers of crispness attributes (Industry Funded, EngD)
- Rheological design of biopolymer composites for application in 3D jet based printing (EPSRC)
- Glassy state control of food biopolymer fibres for extrusion printing (EPSRC)
- Understanding low alcohol beer brewing

Senior Lecturer
Department of History
I would be happy to supervise students working on any early modern topic that overlaps with my research interests, such as history of reading and of the book, political history understood as broadly as possible, the history of subjectivities, and so on.

Professor of River Ecosystems
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Alexander Milner鈥檚 research involves river ecosystems in alpine and Arctic environments and includes long-term studies in Glacier Bay National Park and Denali National Park in Alaska. The study in Glacier Bay represents the longest continual study of stream succession and development within a primary successional framework. Other studies have included how water sources are changing in glacially influenced river systems with climate change and how these changes alter ecological structure ...
Lecturer in Modern Languages
Department of Modern Languages
I welcome enquiries from graduate students who would like to pursue further study in the areas of:
- Practice-based research in translation
- Creative /collaborative/ multimodal translation
- The visual turn in translation
- Translating Spanish and Latin American literature
Find out more - our PhD Hispanic Studies page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

Professor and Honorary Consultant in Periodontology
Director of Education for the College of MDS
Collaborative Programme Officer for the School of Hygiene & Therapy
School of Dentistry
Mike is currently supervising several grants and self-funded PhD & MSc students.

Assistant Professor of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
Department of History
I am interested in supervising topics in 20th c US history, with a particular focus on histories of white privilege, racism, women鈥檚 history, urban history and queer sexualities.
Current PhD supervisions:
Lesbian Cultures in UK Urban Spaces
Women and Marginalized Peoples in Community Archives

Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
School of Computer Science
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Dr Rodolfo Cavalcante (completed in 2017), topic: time series forecast in non-stationary environments.
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Ds Liyan Song, (completed in 2018), topic: software effort estimation using machine learning.
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Mr Michael Chiu, topic: machine learning for non-stationary environments.
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Mr Honghui Du, topic: machine learning for non-stationary environments.
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Mr Gustavo Henrique Ferreira de Miranda Oliveira, topic: machine learning for non-stationary environments.
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Mr Gan Ruan, topic: dynamic optimisation.
- Ms Dalia Sobhi (completed in 2019), topic: software architectures.

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Miri supervises PhD and MSc research projects related to Food Engineering, including Novel Food Processing and Food Safety, as well as Circular Economy and Environmental Engineering.

Chair in Computer and Data Science
School of Computer Science
Paolo has supervised 8 PhD students while at Newcastle, all successfully graduated. Paolo is still actively supervising 3 students from Newcastle, and he is open to new PhD supervision with his new role at Birmingham.

Research Fellow
Institute of Microbiology and Infection
- Currently jointly supervise 1 PhD student