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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 “legal theory”
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
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 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 ...
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.
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.
Professor of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
鈥� Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
鈥� The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
鈥� Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
鈥� John Austin鈥檚 theory of law
鈥� Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥� Constitutional theory
鈥� Legal/political philosophy
鈥� Public law
鈥� Human rights law
鈥� Housing law
Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.
Current PhD students:
Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review
Past PhD students:
Sylvester ...
Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics
Department of Theology and Religion
I welcome proposals across Islamic Studies, especially in Islamic law and ethics, that engage the textual resources of the Islamic intellectual traditions.
Current doctoral supervision
The phenomena of Maddhab change amongst Sunni legal schools in the Mamluk period
Spiritual striving in British Muslim Shia communities
Previous doctoral supervision
The Origins of Im膩m墨 岣d墨th: A Bio-bibliographical Cross-reference Analysis
Taqi al-Din al-Subki on ijtihad and the role of the Qur鈥檃n in his ...
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥�, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:
The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...
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
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:
Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law
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
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.