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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Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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. 

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ results for “legal education”

Professor Lisa Webley

Professor Lisa Webley

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.




Dr Shamini Ragavan

Dr Shamini Ragavan

Associate Professor in Law (Dubai)

Birmingham Law School

I am looking to supervise doctoral candidates in areas of criminal evidence, ethics (values) and legal education/mentoring in pedagogical curricula designs that enhances student learning and teacher reflection.

Dr Lydia Morgan

Dr Lydia Morgan

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)

Birmingham Law School

Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...




Professor Emma Tyler

Professor Emma Tyler

Professor of Translator Education
Head of School of Language, Culture, Art History and Music
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Department of Modern Languages

I have wide-ranging interests across the field of Translation Studies. My current PhD students are working in translation competence, translation industry requirements, ego-targeting in tourism translation, measurement of translator style using computational methods, the use of AI in legal translation and the use and translation of evaluative adjectives in tourism translation.

Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research

Birmingham Law School

Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law



Dr Sophie Boyron

Dr Sophie Boyron

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law

Current doctoral supervision:

Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:

Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation














Dr Sarah Wall

Dr Sarah Wall

Practitioner Tutor

School of Education

She has previously supervised the following doctoral level work: the views of men in primary school teaching; male mental health; universal design for learning in SEND; the lived experience of a visually impaired lecturer; the lived experience of a care leaver with SEND; careers advice for individuals with SEND.

 

Dr Maureen Mapp

Dr Maureen Mapp

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:
• Digital asset regulation
• African customary law in juridical settings
• Gender equality and sentencing
• Decolonising IP law





Dr Georgia Antonopoulou

Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution
Co-Deputy Head of Education (Education Review)

Birmingham Law School

dispute resolution, private international law

Professor Nando Sigona

Professor Nando Sigona

Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement
Director of IRiS

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Nando welcomes proposals for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the following areas: 

  • Forced displacement and globalisation
  • Sociology of statelessness
  • Dual citizenship and the experiences of dual citizens
  • The intersection between migration, rights and citizenship 
  • Everyday experiences of superdiversity
  • Neoliberalism, globalisation and governance of human mobility
  • The politics of refugee voices and silences
  • Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism 
  • Undocumented migrants and experiences of ‘illegality’ through generations
  • Child and family migration 
  • Transnationalism and ...

Dr Kieren McGuffin

Dr Kieren McGuffin

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


Professor Ben Pink Dandelion

Professor Ben Pink Dandelion

Honorary Professor of Quaker Studies
Director, Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies

Department of Theology and Religion

The Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies has around 20 MA by Research/ PhD students and is the leading centre worldwide in research into Quakerism. There is a staff team of 14 supervisors and we can supervise in most areas of Quaker studies: history, theology, philosophy, sociology, literary studies and Quaker values in education.

My own research interests lie particularly in the sociology of religion and the sociology of sects. For ...

Dr Adnan Nadir

Dr Adnan Nadir

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.

Dr Zsuzsanna Nagy

Dr Zsuzsanna Nagy

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 ...

Dr Paul Nankivell

Dr Paul Nankivell

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 Parth Narendran

Professor Parth Narendran

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

Dr Miguel Navarro-Cía

Dr Miguel Navarro-Cía

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 Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡, UK.
  • E. J. Magaway, Terahertz hyperspectral imaging for tribology, University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡, UK.
  • Y. Farahi, Terahertz medical imaging, University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡, UK.

Secondary Supervisor

  • E. Gaggs, Macroscopic metasurfaces for quantum systems, University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡, UK
  • R. Fakhteh, Reconfigurable metasurfaces using new materials and structures, University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡, UK.
  • C. Sumner, Nanophotonic cavities for Raman ...

Dr Aditya Nayak

Dr Aditya Nayak

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

School of Chemical Engineering

Aditya provides supervision for some Masters and PhD students within the group.

Dr Amy Naylor

Dr Amy Naylor

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 ...

Dr Georgiana Neag

Dr Georgiana Neag

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 Catherine Needham

Professor Catherine Needham

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. 

Dr Susan Neilson

Dr Susan Neilson

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

Dr Sándor Zoltán Németh

Dr Sándor Zoltán Németh

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.