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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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Assistant Professor in Modern Languages
Department of Modern Languages
I would be delighted to hear from potential postgraduate students interested in working on the following areas:
Mexican visual culture (including visual and material cultures of Catholicism)
Mexican literature and cultural history
Spanish American and Latinx art (including Spanish Caribbean)
Visual culture and violence
Representations of the body
Visual propaganda and the relationship between art and politics
I welcome comparative projects and research that engages with diverse media.
Associate Professor in Cancer Biology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Currently supervising one PhD student.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
Birmingham Law School
Iyan welcomes proposals for postgraduate research within his areas of research expertise outlined above and below.
Iyan is currently supervising the following PhD research:
Mo Esan: Investigating the History, Text and Implementation of the Animal Welfare Strategy for Africa through the lens of Third World Approaches to International Law
Samuel Hazle: Reforming Animal Law through an Intersectional Lens: Law鈥檚 Humanizing Function, Socio-Legal Justice Movements, and the Ongoing Battle to Enable ...
Assistant Professor in Commercial Conflict of Laws
Birmingham Law School
Commercial Conflict of Laws and International Commercial Litigation
Associate Professor in Egyptology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I would welcome research students interested in the material culture of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom, anthropological approaches to Ancient Egypt, kinship and marriage, letters, stelae and memorial chapels, the construction of Egyptology as an area study, and aspects of the reception of Egypt in popular culture.
Professor in Russian Environmental Studies
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Jonathan Oldfield's research explores Soviet and Russian understandings of physical natural systems with a focus on geoengineering, global environmental change, climate change, and related areas of scientific thought. Jon is very happy to discuss related research areas - feel free to email.
Director of the Forensic Psychology Postgraduate Programmes
HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist
School of Psychology
Dr Oliver currently provides academic supervision to trainee Forensic, Forensic Clinical, and Clinical psychologists on the practitioner doctorate programmes at the University. She also provides supervision to students studying for a PhD in Psychology.
Emeritus Professor of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
School of Psychology
Currently supervising eight PhD students, two MRes students and five ClinPsyD students. Potential postgraduate students can make contact via email and are welcome to visit informally and meet the team. Project areas are described at The Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
Assistant Professor
Departmental Head of Education
Department of Mechanical Engineering
- MSc Summer Individual Project Supervision
- PhD and MSc by Research applicants and visiting researchers are welcome in the following areas: Automated assessment and feedback; bio tribology; application of AE in Orthopedics, and AE Signal processing using machine learning.
Associate Professor
Director of PGT Programmes
School of Psychology
Andrew is very happy to talk to potential PhD students who have interests in neuropsychology, speech and language therapy, linguistics, psycholinguistics and computational modeling. Students interested in joining the lab should email Andrew directly.
Assistant Professor in Strategy and International Business
The Department of Strategy and International Business
Adah is willing to supervise PhDs in SME and family firms’ export intensity and environmental performance.
Associate Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Onyeaka supervises PhD and MSc research projects related to Food safety and microbiology, environmental bioremediation, sustainable bioprocessing, and food waste valorization.