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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Associate Professor
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Supervision of students undertaking MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Assistant Professor
Department of Film and Creative Writing
I would be excited to work on all forms of poetry, with a particular interest in work which touches on multilingualism, translation, voice as a medium, storytelling, and the experimental. I would also consider hybrid projects combining poetry with other forms of writing.

Lecturer
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Current postgraduate supervision includes:
1. Studies on separation of neodymium from rare earth NdFeB permanent magnets

Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
Economic anthropology, Oceania, gambling, political anthropology, anthropology of the future, anthropology of finance, anthropology of elites

Associate Professor in Philosophy
Director, Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion
Department of Philosophy
I have a wide range of philosophical interests across my research areas of Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics and Early Modern Philosophy. I am open to supervising topics in any of these areas, including where they overlap. I warmly welcome email enquiries from potential PhD students at any time.

Associate Professor in Pharmacology
Department of Biomedical Sciences
Ilse supervises undergraduate final year, MSc and mRes research projects. She has supervised several PhDs to completion and currently serves as supervisor for a number of PhD students at the University 麻豆精选 and as an honorary supervisor at other UK universities.

Assistant Professor in Astronomy
School of Physics and Astronomy
PhD supervision in exoplanets and their atmospheres.

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Birmingham Fellow
Associate Professor in Organic Chemistry
School of Chemistry
Sarah is interested in supervising MSci and postgraduate students in the following areas:
- Supramolecular chemistry; molecular recognition and host-guest chemistry
- Synthesis and conformational analysis of oligomers
- Molecular machines and switches
Students who are interested in these research areas should contact her using the email address above.

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Photophysics
School of Chemistry
For opportunities to join the research group, please email Professor Zoe Pikramenou and also see postgraduate opportunities.

Lecturer in Education of Children and Young People with Vision Impairments
School of Education
Anna is not currently undertaking supervision activities.

George Drexler & Royal College of Surgeons Chair of Surgical Trials
Honorary Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon
Department of Applied Health Sciences
- Samerah Saeed, Clinical Research Fellow (2023-ongoing)
- Sue Blackwell, PhD Student (2022-ongoing)
- Kayani Kayani, Academic Clinical Fellow (2021-2024)
- Daniel Osei-Bardom, Academic Clinical Fellow (2018-2021)
- Elizabeth Li, Clinical Research Fellow (PhD) (2017-2020)
- Yashawi Sinha, Academic Clinical Fellow (2017-2020)
- James Glasbey, Academic Clinical Fellow (2016-2019)
- Muhammad Atif, Academic Clinical Fellow (2015-2018)
- Dmitri Nepogodiev, Academic Clinical Fellow (2014-2017)

Royal Society University Research Fellow
School of Biosciences
If you are interested in possible upcoming postgraduate opportunities in the lab, please get in touch with Andy.