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 “international law”
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
Associate Professor
Director of LLM Programme (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Hwaidi currently accepts PhD candidates in the following areas:
鈥� Commercial law
鈥� International trade law
鈥� Law and technology
鈥� Contract law/ tort law
鈥� International finance and banking law
鈥� Law and sociology
鈥� Arbitration
鈥� Maritime law
He has supervised PhD students in the areas of the law of blockchain, drafting arbitration clauses in commercial contracts, carriage of goods by sea and privacy law.
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 ...
Assistant Professor in International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
International Humanitarian Law (the law of armed conflict), International Criminal Law, Transnational Criminal Law (to include cross-border crimes, such as trafficking and piracy)
International law and global legal studies (to include conflicts, transitional justice, international criminal law)
Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Birmingham Law School
鈥� Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
鈥� International Commercial Arbitration
鈥� International Investment Law and Arbitration
鈥� Energy Law
鈥� Law and Technology
鈥� AI and Law
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 ...
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
Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Birmingham Law School
Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.
Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.
Current PhD students
鈥� Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...
Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
鈥� Law and development (especially in Latin America)
鈥� Law and political economy
鈥� Gender, sexuality, and law
鈥� Gambling regulation
Barber Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Contract/Commercial law
Conflict of Laws
Arbitration
Comparative Law
International Trade and Finance
Current doctoral supervision
Professor Enonchong is currently supervising four doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas
Contractual Mechanisms for Reducing Risks in Long Term Oil and Gas Agreements
The Scope of the Liability of Arbitral Institutions towards the Disputing Parties
Judicial Review of International Arbitral Awards
Balancing the demands of procedural fairness and finality in ADR in ...
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 ...
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.