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.

Start your search

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 Mohd Hwaidi

Dr Mohd Hwaidi

Associate Professor
Director of LLM Programme (Dubai)

Birmingham Law School

Dr Hwaidi currently accepts PhD candidates in the following areas:
• Commercial law
• International trade law
• Law and technology
• Contract law/ tort law
• International finance and banking law
• Law and sociology
• Arbitration
• 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.










Dr Amer Tabbara

Dr Amer Tabbara

Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution

Birmingham Law School

• Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
• International Commercial Arbitration
• International Investment Law and Arbitration
• Energy Law
• Law and Technology
• AI and Law






Professor Nelson Enonchong

Professor Nelson Enonchong

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 ...










Dr Peter Coe

Dr Peter Coe

Associate Professor
Director of Research Impact

Birmingham Law School

Dr Coe welcomes expressions of interest for prospective PhD students in his areas of interest, and the field of Media Law more broadly.

Dr Andreas Kokkinis

Dr Andreas Kokkinis

Associate Professor
Head of Postgraduate Research

Birmingham Law School

Dr Kokkinis is available to supervise doctoral researchers on corporate law, corporate governance, banking law and regulation and financial regulation. He has previously supervised research projects on shareholder activism, executive remuneration, banking regulatory architecture and the development of infrastructure through private sector involvement.

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.





Dr Tara Lai Quinlan

Associate Professor in Law and Criminal Justice

Birmingham Law School

criminal law, criminal procedure, terrorism, counter-terrorism, police, disproportionality in the criminal justice system, stop and search, jury diversity

Dr Georgia Antonopoulou

Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution
Co-Deputy Head of Education (Education Review)

Birmingham Law School

dispute resolution, private international law

John Tingle

John Tingle

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

National and Global Patient Safety
Clinical Negligence Litigation


Dr Chukwuma Okoli

Dr Chukwuma Okoli

Assistant Professor in Commercial Conflict of Laws

Birmingham Law School

Commercial Conflict of Laws and International Commercial Litigation

Professor Anthea Hucklesby

Professor Anthea Hucklesby

Professor of Criminal Justice

Birmingham Law School

Anthea has supervised research students in many aspects of criminal justice in the UK and internationally. She welcomes applications from UK and international students interested in any area of criminal justice including, but not limited to, electronic monitoring, pre-trial detention and bail, police powers, courts, prisons, community sentences, technologies and private and voluntary sector involvement in criminal justice.

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.