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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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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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Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...
Associate Professor in Early Modern History
Department of History
I am interested in supervising research projects on most aspects of the social, cultural and religious history of early modern England, especially in areas relating to the reformation, theology, popular religion and belief, religious practices, puritanism, parish religion, music, the material culture of the parish church, and histories of emotion and mental illness.
I have been/am currently involved in supervising MA dissertations, MRes theses and PhD theses on the following topics: ...
Associate Professor in History of Energy and Environmental Humanities
125th Anniversary Fellow
Department of History
Dr Shin welcomes enquiries about potential postgraduate projects on all aspects of energy history, environmental history and modern economic history.
Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History
Department of History
I offer postgraduate supervision in the colonial, international and global history of modern France and its empire, on empire in the twentieth century Mediterranean and in the comparative history of European empire.
I currently supervise or co-supervise several PhD students:
Gemma Jennings (Patriarchy and Poverty? A Transnational Analysis of the Social Implications of the Oil Industry between France and Algeria)
Tomoki Yamada (The League of Nations Mandates System as a ...
Lecturer in Asian History
Department of History
Previous MA thesis topics that I have co-supervised include Sino-British economic relations and a comparative study of Roman imperial cults and Japanese overseas shrines.
I welcome inquiries from students on PhD supervision on China, East Asia, and the wider world in any time period. Current PhD topics I am co-supervising include postcolonial urban architecture and memory in Hong Kong (funded by AHRC Midlands 3 Cities Consortium), and the public history ...
Associate Professor in Environment and Society
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr Day welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in her areas of interest:
environmental justice / energy justice
energy poverty
energy geography
environmental knowledges
older age, especially in relation to environmental or energy issues
Professor, Chair of Environmental Genomics
Director, Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
School of Biosciences
The Environmental Genomics group is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:
- Molecular mechanisms of developmental plasticity & acclimation
- Pioneering the use of genomic signatures for environmental health protection
- Forecasting environmental health threats on populations using Daphnia egg bank genomics
- Biostatistical and computational methods of analyzing high dimensional data and gene networks
- Population genomics
- Heritable basis of condition-associated molecular responses and adaptive tolerance to stress ...
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Archaeology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Past PhD students supervised by David have worked on analogue studies of the plants and insects from hay meadows (with Dr Pam Grinter) and the Palaeoentomology of estuarine deposits at Goldcliff, Gwent (with Dr Emma Tetlow).
At present, David is co-supervising the PhDs of:
Shelagh Norton - who is working on the archaeology and the past environments of the Berth Hillfort, Shropshire and other 鈥榤arshforts鈥� in the British Isles.
Zena ...
Professor of Archaeology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Henry can supervise postgraduate study in the areas of later prehistory, wetland archaeology, landscape archaeology and the application of digital and spatial technologies within heritage.
He currently supervises students researching digital approaches to conflict archaeology, the landscape archaeology of European bog bodies, predictive modelling of centres of power in Bronze Age Anatolia using GIS, valuing archives in the 21st century, the landscape archaeology of Neolithic causewayed enclosures, and the archaeology ...
Professor in Carceral Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Carceral Geography
Teaching Fellow in Byzantine Archaeology
Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
- Late Roman and Byzantine archaeology; archaeology of the later medieval Aegean world
- Regional histories and economic history of the Byzantine world
Find out more - our PhD Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.
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 ...
Emeritus Professor in Multiphase Systems
School of Chemical Engineering
- Simultaneous characterisation of morphology and rheology of complex multiphase products
- Effect of catalyst particles on bubble size and overall reaction rate in mixed solvents in heterogeneous reactors at elevated pressure and temperature
- Concurrent Product Process design using rotor stator devices
- Solid/gas/liquid interfaces in multiphase catalitical reactors
- Lignosulphonate as a source of fine chemicals
Associate Professor in North American Literature
Department of English Literature
I would be delighted to supervise postgraduate work and research projects, and invite expressions of interest, in any of the following areas:
- Nineteenth-century American literature 鈥� especially Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Chesnutt, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Henry Dana Jr.
- The Gothic 鈥� I have research specialisms in American Gothic, maritime ...
Professor of Applied Linguistics
Program Director, BA Digital Media and Communications
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am always looking for students with exciting projects and am particularly interested in supervising projects which incorporate discourse analysis and narrative analysis, focus on data from spoken or social media contexts, which include multimodal materials along with verbal data, and/or explore topics in language and gender. I have supervised PhD projects in the broad fields of
Discourse analysis
Critical discourse analysis
Computer-mediated communication
Professor in Biomedical Materials Science
Director of Research
School of Dentistry
Dr Palin's current research themes for doctoral supervision include:
Materials chemistry (investigating polymerisation efficiencies of photoactive biomaterials and mproving photoinitiator systems for dental and novel medical applications
Mechanical properties of biomaterials (mechanical response and fatigue of resin composites, characteristics of bulk resin-ceramic hybrid materials, and reliability statistics for brittle materials)
Materials science-biological interface (effects of anti-bacterial additives on polymerisation kinetics and cellular behaviour and wavelength/irradiance effects on photoinitiator efficiency and ...
Associate Professor
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Claire supervises a PhD student, a clinical academic fellow and several medical students. She would be interested in hearing from people with either a scientific or clinical background that would be keen to join the group.
Lecturer in Russian
Department of Modern Languages
鈥� Russian and Russophone poetry (19th-21st Century)
鈥� Russian Formalism and literary theory
鈥� Comparative modernisms, world literature, post-colonialism
鈥� (Modernist) performance culture
鈥� Intersections between literature and visual art/music
Associate Professor in Procurement and Operations Management
Department of Management
Gu welcomes PhD applicants who are interested in: machine learning, blockchain technology, remanufacturing, reverse logistics, closed-loop supply chains, food value chains, optimisation.
For informal discussion, please forward your email to g.pang.1@bham.ac.uk
Associate Professor in European Politics
Head of Education, School of Government
Department of Political Science and International Studies
- European Union foreign policies
- Central & Eastern European foreign policies (Germany, Poland, Slovakia)
- European Neighbourhood Policy
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
PhD Student
School of Metallurgy and Materials
- Rustam Stolkin
- Amir Ghalamzan
Associate Professor in Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine
Director of NIHR/Wellcome Birmingham Clinical Research Facility
Acute Care Research Theme Lead
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Dhruv is interested in supervising doctoral research students who are interested in research in the field of respiratory, peri-operative medicine and critical care.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Dhruv Parekh directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings.
Professor of Tumour Virology
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Professor Jo Parish has supervised more than 20 postgraduate students in areas of virology and cancer biology. Many of these students now hold posts at prestigious national and international research institutes.
Jo is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Regulation of HPV gene expression control
- Regulation of HPV replication and persistence
- Regulation of HBV gene expression control
If you are interested in studying any of these ...