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. 

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Dr Davor Pavlovic

Dr Davor Pavlovic

Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Sciences

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Current and previous PhD Students

  • Sian-Marie O’Brien

    Defended thesis 2019 – "Regulation of intracellular sodium in the atria"
  • Dannie Fobian

    Defended thesis 2020 – "Translating the effect of rate control therapy in atrial fibrillation: from cellular response to cardiac function"
  • 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"  
  • Simon Wells

    Defended thesis 2020 ...

Professor Rosie Harding

Professor Rosie Harding

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’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Dr Kirsty Moreton

Dr Kirsty Moreton

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, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

Dr Charlotte Bendall

Dr Charlotte Bendall

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Charlotte is happy to supervise doctoral students for projects focusing on family law, especially those concerning adult relationships.

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





Professor Máiréad Enright

Professor Máiréad Enright

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 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 Raya AL-Dadah

Dr Raya AL-Dadah

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 ...

Dr Melanie Griffiths

Dr Melanie Griffiths

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

Professor Ian Grosvenor

Professor Ian Grosvenor

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 ...

Dr Leslie Fesenmyer

Dr Leslie Fesenmyer

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 Matt Houlbrook

Professor Matt Houlbrook

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’re interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...

Dr Lucy O’Sullivan

Dr Lucy O’Sullivan

Assistant Professor in Modern Languages

Department of Modern Languages

I would be delighted to hear from students interesting in exploring the below topics:

Visual propaganda and the relationship between art, politics and protest
The relationship between visual culture and violence
Any aspect of visual culture (including but not limited to muralism, photography, painting, printmaking, posters and other public forms of art) in a Spanish American or Latin American context
The image-text relations

I would be happy to offer supervision ...






Dr Elena Odintsova

Dr Elena Odintsova

Associate Professor in Cancer Biology

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Currently supervising one PhD student.

 

Dr Chukwuma Okoli

Dr Chukwuma Okoli

Assistant Professor in Commercial Conflict of Laws

Birmingham Law School

Commercial Conflict of Laws and International Commercial Litigation

Dr Leire Olabarria

Dr Leire Olabarria

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.

Dr Osama Olaby

Dr Osama Olaby

Research Fellow in Mechatronic Systems

Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Supervisor of MSc projects in Railway Engineering.
  • Co-supervisor of final year projects in BEng, Meng, MSc.

Dr Olaby warmly welcomes postgraduate students (co-supervising) with a keen interest in multidisciplinary research in the field of Control Engineering.

Professor Jonathan Oldfield

Professor Jonathan Oldfield

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.

Dr Caroline Oliver

Dr Caroline Oliver

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.

Professor Chris Oliver

Professor Chris Oliver

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.

 

Dr Khadijat A Olorunlambe

Dr Khadijat A Olorunlambe

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.

 

Dr Andrew Olson

Dr Andrew Olson

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.

Dr Adah-Kole Emmanuel Onjewu

Dr Adah-Kole Emmanuel Onjewu

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.

Dr Helen Onyeaka

Dr Helen Onyeaka

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.