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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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Associate Professor in Autism Studies
School of Education
Prithvi supervises doctoral students in the field of autism and education. He is particularly interested in supervising students who want to explore intersectionality of autism and culture, autism and sexuality and co-occurrence of autism and intellectual disabilities.
Associate Professor in Linguistics and Communication
Acting Director of PGR for ELAL
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am looking to supervise postgraduate research on topics at the intersections of psycholinguistics, multimodality, metaphor, and especially iconicity. Some specific points of interest include:
Experimental studies of iconicity and metaphor in language production and understanding
Multimodal approaches to iconicity and metaphor in natural conversation, including the use of multimodal corpora
Experimental studies of iconicity and metaphor in the emergence and evolution of communication systems
Assistant Professor of Psychology
School of Psychology
Christian is interested in supervising all projects that sit within the areas of Forensic Psychology and Mental Health (please see research interests). He has a preference for researchers keen to employ qualitative methods but is happy to discuss mixed method approaches.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
School of Psychology
Ben is delighted to receive expressions of interest from academic clinical trainees, doctoral students, MRES, MSci, and Intercalated BMedSci students, to discuss projects in areas related to his research interests. Students interested in working with Ben should contact him in the first instance at b.i.perry@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
School of Education
- Bethan Morris-Tran
- Lucy Bartlett (Masters by Research). Dissertation’s title: To what extent different cultures can impact the way guidelines for SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) support are perceived and acted upon: A comparative study between Japan and England.
Professor of Genome Stability
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Dr Petermann is interested in supervising doctoral researchers in
the following areas:
- Fundamental mechanisms of DNA replication stress and DNA repair
- Oncogene-induced replication stress
- Conflicts between replication and transcription
- Targeted cancer therapies
- Cancer chemotherapy and replication stress
General doctoral research enquiries: mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Computer Security
School of Computer Science
- 2018 Alex Litowczuk Post-quantum cryptography.
- 2018 Ran Pang Post-quantum cryptography.
Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics
School of Mathematics
Natalia is interested in supervising doctoral research students in mathematical and computational ecology. Brief description of PhD projects.
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Palliative and End of Life Care
Professor of Atmospheric Science
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Aerosol Studies, Gas-phase Kinetics and Reaction Products, Indoor Air Quality, Plant-Pollution Interactions and Urban Greening.
Professor of Migration and Superdiversity
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
- South to south refugee humanitarianism (2024) (Kirsty Hearn)
- Intersectionality Between Threat Assessment and Refugees’ Personal Experiences of Violence (2026) Olivia Petie
- Superdiversity and child mistreatment PhD (2022) (Rafiyah Khan)
- Refugee integration a design approach PhD (2022) (Allaa Barri)
- Critical humanitarianism and the Community Sponsorship Programme PhD (2023) (Natasha Nicholls)
- Comparing refugee integration outcomes across resettlement programmes PhD (2023) (Gabriella D'Avino)
- Governance and migration. Danish Research Council Studentship PhD (2011) (Belisa ...
Associate Professor in Healthcare (Dubai)
Programme Director MSc Advanced Practice in Healthcare (Dubai)
Head of Subject Group 鈥� Health, Wellbeing and Human Sciences (Dubai)
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Subject Specialism
- Advanced Practice
- Independent Prescribing
- Clinical Education
- Long Term Conditions
- Workforce Planning
- Nursing and Midwifery Leadership
- Clinical Governance and Service Improvement
Methodology
- Mixed Methods
- Quality Improvement Research
- Qualitative Methods
- Quantitative Methods