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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Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Sciences
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Current and previous PhD Students
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Sian-Marie O’Brien
Defended thesis 2019 – "Regulation of intracellular sodium in the atria"
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Dannie Fobian
Defended thesis 2020 – "Translating the effect of rate control therapy in atrial fibrillation: from cellular response to cardiac function"
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Chris O’Shea
Defended thesis 2020 – "Developing a high-resolution optical mapping setup with integrated high-throughput analysis capabilites for dissecting molecular mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias"
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Simon Wells
Defended thesis 2020 ...
Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean
Birmingham Law School
Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, 鈥楻econsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Charlotte is happy to supervise doctoral students for projects focusing on family law, especially those concerning adult relationships.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Birmingham Law School
Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
鈥� Digital asset regulation
鈥� African customary law in juridical settings
鈥� Gender equality and sentencing
鈥� Decolonising IP law
Professor of Feminist Legal Studies
Head of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
I am willing to supervise research students in the following areas:
Gender, law and Religion, particularly from feminist or critical legal perspectives.
Politics of reproductive justice.
'Historical' institutional abuse.
Law, activism and social movements.
I am happy to answer email queries from prospective students before submission of an official proposal.
Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.
Reader in Sustainable Energy Technologies
Head of Sustainable Energy Technology Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. AL-Dadah works currently supervises the following doctoral research projects:
- Anil Taskin (November 2020 to November 2024): Development of small-scale scroll expander for organic Rankine cycle. Sponsored by the Turkish Government.
- Andrew Makar (October 2020 to October 2024): Development of open cycle desiccant cooling system using metal organic framework adsorbent materials for air conditioning application. Sponsored by the British Council.
- Ibrahim Albaik (October 2019 to October 2023): Development and optimisation ...
Birmingham Fellow
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Migration, asylum, immigration detention, deportation, families, Article 8 rights, gender, men and masculinity, time, bureaucracies, legal courts, hostile environment
Emeritus Professor of Urban Education History
Director of the Voices of War & Peace Centre
School of Education
Ian is interested in the following research topics:
- material cultures of schooling;
- cultural diversity and race equality;
- anti-racist and refugee education;
- black history;
- museum and heritage education; the teaching of history.
He currently supervises a number of students including the following:
- Izzy Mohammed - Public archives, Representation and Integration in Post-War, Multicultural Urban Contexts: Birmingham and Manchester
- Alison Laitner - Discovering Childrens’ Voices and Experiences; Changes from family to institutional care ...
Associate Professor in Social Anthropology and African Studies
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I welcome enquiries from students interested in the anthropology of migration and diasporas; religion, particularly Pentecostalism; and kinship and care.
Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you鈥檙e interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...
Honorary Associate Clinical Professor
Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Dr Nadir has supervised cardiology and interventional cardiology fellows from around the world both clinically and mentoring them to write thesis and publish in peer-reviewed journals.
Senior Lecturer
Interim Department Head of Education
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Zsuzsanna is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following area:
- The role of cell cycle related molecules in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Zsuzsanna Nagy 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 ...
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Honorary Consultant ENT/Head & Neck Surgeon
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
- Currently co-supervising 2 PhD students
- Has supervised BMedSc and MSc students
Professor of Diabetes Medicine
Honorary Consultant Physician
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Parth has supervised over 10 MD and PhDs on the subject of diabetes and immunology
Reader in TeraHertz Science and Engineering
Head of the Metamaterials and Nanophotonics Group
Associated with the School of Physics and Astronomy and the School of Engineering (Department of EESE)
School of Physics and Astronomy
Current PhD students
Primary Supervisor
- D. Feng, Surface scattering and propagation through inhomogeneous media, University 麻豆精选, UK.
- E. J. Magaway, Terahertz hyperspectral imaging for tribology, University 麻豆精选, UK.
- Y. Farahi, Terahertz medical imaging, University 麻豆精选, UK.
Secondary Supervisor
- E. Gaggs, Macroscopic metasurfaces for quantum systems, University 麻豆精选, UK
- R. Fakhteh, Reconfigurable metasurfaces using new materials and structures, University 麻豆精选, UK.
- C. Sumner, Nanophotonic cavities for Raman ...
Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Fellow
School of Chemical Engineering
Aditya provides supervision for some Masters and PhD students within the group.
Senior Research Fellow
Deputy Theme Lead for Rheumatology
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Amy currently supervisors doctoral researchers undertaking the following projects:
- An organotypic model of the bone remodelling process
- Targeting the novel CD248-MMRN2-CLEC14A signalling pathway in age-related bone loss
- The ageing bone – a novel peptide as an inducer of bone repair
- Formulation of a novel suspending medium for immobilised culture and tissue processing
- Characterising the therapeutic potential of a novel peptide in age-related bone loss, skeletal remodelling and repair
- Development of ...
Associate Professor in People and Organisation Management
Department of Management
Research Fellow in Skeletal Ageing and Inflammation
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Georgiana is interested in co-supervising postgraduate projects (MRes, MSci, PhD) in the area of Multi-modal volumetric imaging, Ageing and Inflammation associated Bone Loss, Postnatal Bone Development. These projects will also be supervised by Prof. Adam Croft.
Professor of Public Policy and Public Management
Health Services Management Centre
Catherine would welcome PhD students interested in aspects of the following:
- Social care systems
- Personalisation and coproduction in social care
- Public service reform, focused on the UK, or putting the UK in comparative perspective.
Associate Professor
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Sue is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Palliative and end of life care
- Bereavement support
- Nursing
- Research using qualitative methodology
If you are interested in studying in any of these subject areas please contact Sue on the contact details above or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
School of Mathematics
Sándor is supervising postgraduate students in Optimisation on Manifolds, Convex Optimisation, Equilibrium Systems, Ordered Vector Spaces and Multicriteria Decision Making.