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 Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Birmingham Law School
Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.
Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.
Current PhD students
鈥� Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...
Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...
Associate Professor in Law
Programme Director, Online LLM in Energy and Environmental Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Nsoh is happy to supervise within the following broad areas:
Innovative approaches such as conservation covenants, payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsets in conservation
Biodiversity and nature conservation law
Property (land) rights, land use, land tenure and livelihoods
Forest ownership and sustainability
Regulation of natural resources
Ecosystem services
Indigenous rights
Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Sandra is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
German Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
European Union Law
Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting an official application.
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
Associate Professor
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice
School of Biosciences
Dr Scott Glaberman's lab is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:
- Leveraging evolutionary principles to understand species sensitivity to chemicals
- Analysing toxicology data within a One Health framework using big data approaches
- Developing nematodes (including C. elegans) as model organisms in toxicology
- Advancing environmental monitoring of contaminants through risk-based approaches
- Reimagining risk assessment practices for environmental contaminants
Investigating evolutionary mechanisms of cancer resistance and ...
Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
* Transitional justice
* Resilience
* War and armed conflict
* Environmental impacts of war
* Posthumanism
Professor of Cerebrovascular, Exercise & Environmental Physiology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Professor Lucas has supervised numerous research Masters and PhD students in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, and Postdoctoral Fellows at UoB. As both a primary and co-supervisor Prof Lucas has 16 PhD and 13 MSc (research) completions, and currently co/supervises 10 PhD and 4 MSc (research) students. The details of his graduate student supervision and the subjects/areas of work are listed below:
Postdoctoral Fellows
2023- Dr Jun ...
Professor of Economics
Director of Research - Department of Economics
Business School
Professor Elliott is available to supervise PhD students across a broad range of topics including international and development economics and environmental and energy economics. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged and students will need to be familar with the manipulation of large data sets and econometric techniques and methods.
Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics
Any area of Environmental or Natural Resource Economics
Research Fellow
(Guest Lecturer)
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Doctoral Research supervision:
Doctoral Researcher: Juliana Antunes de Azevedo
Topic: Urban Heat and Energy Demand: Application of an urban meteorological network
This doctoral research will analyse the temporal and spatial variability 麻豆精选's UHI and its relationship with household energy consumption using high-resolution meteorological data from BUCL, MODIS and Landsat ETM+ data and Energy Consumption data.
Supervisor: Dr. Lee Chapman
Co-supervisor: Dr. Catherine L. Muller
MSc dissertation supervision (various ...
Professor in Genetics
School of Biosciences
The lab is recruiting PhD students.
We have a PhD studentship available. Please apply before the 31st May 2023!
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/probe-mechanisms-underlying-the-maternal-inheritance-of-mitochondrial-dna-in-drosophila/?p156141
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Hepatobiliary Oncology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Yuk Ting has supervised the laboratory projects of a number of BMedSci students
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Yuk Ting Ma directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.
Professor of Maternal and Child Epidemiology
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Christine is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Trials and other quantitative studies on health problems following childbirth and on evaluation of maternity health services.
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Christine directly, or
for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Political Economy
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Huw Macartney is a political economist whose work is broadly concerned with the politics of banking and financial services. He welcomes applications from potential PhD students in the fields of International or Comparative Political Economy, banking and financial market governance, globalisation, and historical materialism.
Dr Macartney welcomes doctoral researchers with any interests relating to the politics of financial and banking services.
Honorary Research Fellow
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Hayley currently supervises 2 graduate research students (1 PhD, 1 Masters by research).
Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I would be delighted to discuss research projects on any of my major research interests: ancient political institutions, interstate relations, the Greek city-states, and epigraphic culture.
Director, Birmingham Institute of Forest Research
Professor of Atmospheric Science
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Rob MacKenzie is interested in how plants affect air composition. He is inaugural Director of the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR), which includes the BIFoR Free-Air Carbon Enrichment (FACE) facility, which is the current focus of much of the work in Rob's group. Topics include the effects of elevated CO2 on aboveground and belowground carbon cycling and the coupling of carbon, water, and nutrient cycles.
Rob's group develops atmospheric ...
Director of BactiVac, the Bacterial Vaccines Network
Professor of Vaccine Immunology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Currently supervising three PhD students.
Associate Professor in Autism
School of Education
Her research interests are as follows:
- Inclusive practice for autistic adults and young people
- models of support and self-advocacy
- higher autistic students in higher education
- participatory methodologies
- collaborative approaches to research and practice
Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics
Any area of Environmental or Natural Resource Economics
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Professor Madhani has openings for self-funded MRes and PhD (basic science and clinical) in the area of:
- Nitric oxide and nitrite in health and disease
- Cardiometabolism in ischaemic heart disease and heart failure
Associate Professor
School of Biosciences
For a list of possible PhD projects offered by Dr Madigan:
www.findaphd.com/search/customlink.asp?inst=birm-Biol&supersurname=Madigan