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. 

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Mr Prashant Patel

Mr Prashant Patel

Associate Clinical Professor, Urology

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Prashant has supervised the following students:

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  • 2020-2022 - Umair Kamran - POUGIC – Quality Indicators of Upper GI Endoscopy (Funding: Joint with Dr Nigel Trudgill and SWBHT)
  • 2017 - 2020 - Omar Abdullah - VTE in Bladder Cancer (Funding: Joint with Professor Annie Young and Warwick University)
  • 2018 - 2020 - Dominic King - Outcomes of PTC and EUS biopsy for Pancreatic malignancies (Funding: Joint with Dr Nigel Trudgill and SWBHT)
  • 2018 - 2019 - Amandeep Dosanjh - Validation of ...

Dr Amanda Patten

Dr Amanda Patten

Associate Professor in Historical Linguistics
Head of Education for the School of EDACS

Department of Linguistics and Communication

I am particularly interested in supervising MA and PhD research in the areas of:

Historical linguistics and language change
Construction grammar and the relationship between form and meaning
Information packaging constructions and other specialised linguistic patterns
Pattern Grammar and the relationship between words and grammar




Dr David Pattie

Dr David Pattie

Senior Lecturer

Department of Drama and Theatre Arts

Samuel Beckett.
Contemporary British theatre and performance.
Performance and popular culture.

Professor Stephen Pattison

Professor Stephen Pattison

Emeritus Professor of Religion, Ethics and Practice
HG Wood Professor of Theology

Department of Theology and Religion

  • Practical and pastoral theology
  • Religious ethics and practice
  • Ethics and values of professional and managerial practice
  • Ethics and values of health care
  • Contemporary religion and spirituality

Find out more - our PhD Theology and Religion  page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.

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 ...

Dr Anna Peacock

Dr Anna Peacock

Reader in Bioinorganic Chemistry

School of Chemistry

Research projects in the Peacock group provide excellent training for anyone wishing to conduct research in bioinorganic chemistry and metallopeptide design. 

Potential applicants interested in joining the group are encouraged to contact Dr Peacock directly by email.

Dr Imogen Peck

Dr Imogen Peck

Assistant Professor in British History
Director, Centre for Midlands History and Cultures

Department of History

I am happy to supervise doctoral researchers on topics relating to my research specialisms, just get in touch. I would be particularly keen to hear from students who are interested in working on: memory and the commemoration of conflict; family and local memory; family history; the social history of archives; the social and cultural history of the Midlands, especially during the early modern period.

Professor Andrew Peet

Professor Andrew Peet

Professor of Clinical Paediatric Oncology (NIHR)

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

PhD students main supervisor - 10 completed

PhD students co-supervisor -  9 completed

Dr Wouter Peeters

Dr Wouter Peeters

Associate Professor in Global Ethics

Department of Philosophy

I am happy to supervise students working on political philosophy, global (bio)ethics, climate change, environmental sustainability and intersubjective ethics.

Professor Eddie Pelan

Professor Eddie Pelan

Professor of Chemical Engineering

School of Chemical Engineering

Eddie has experience as an Industrial Supervisor for many students, across many Unilever projects during his career there.  This has included short term stages, summer students, and EngDs, PhDs, and coaching of Research Fellows. Eddie has also been an external examiner of PhD thesis, both in the Netherlands and the UK. 

Dr Rosina Pendrous

Dr Rosina Pendrous

Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Rosie is interested in supervising mixed methods PhD projects aimed at understanding and evaluating interventions related to mental health, particularly focusing on eating disorders and/or suicide and self-harm research. She is also interested in supervising PhD projects that explore and evaluate novel methodological approaches for understanding mental health in clinical and community settings, ranging from ecological momentary assessment and SCED to qualitative co-production work. Those wishing to apply to work with ...

Dr Florent Perek

Dr Florent Perek

Associate Professor in Cognitive Linguistics
Deputy Director of the Centre for Corpus Research

Department of Linguistics and Communication

Florent Perek would be happy to take on prospective PhD students interested to pursue a project in cognitive linguistics with a particular focus on the syntax, morphology, or semantics of English (and/or other European languages), and preferably using corpus-based and/or experimental methods.