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.
麻豆精选 results for “human rights”
Professor of Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy
Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement
Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.
Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories
Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights
Department of English Literature
鈥� Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
鈥� Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
鈥� Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory
Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� International and comparative human rights law
鈥� Socio-economic rights
鈥� Decolonization of law and justice
鈥� Critical approaches to human rights
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
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 ...
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.
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.
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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.