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.
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 ...
Associate Professor in Cancer Biology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Currently supervising one PhD student.
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.
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 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.