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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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Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Sciences
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Current and previous PhD Students
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Sian-Marie O’Brien
Defended thesis 2019 – "Regulation of intracellular sodium in the atria"
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Dannie Fobian
Defended thesis 2020 – "Translating the effect of rate control therapy in atrial fibrillation: from cellular response to cardiac function"
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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"
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Simon Wells
Defended thesis 2020 ...
Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean
Birmingham Law School
Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, 鈥楻econsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Charlotte is happy to supervise doctoral students for projects focusing on family law, especially those concerning adult relationships.
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:
鈥� Digital asset regulation
鈥� African customary law in juridical settings
鈥� Gender equality and sentencing
鈥� Decolonising IP law
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.
Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.
Reader in Sustainable Energy Technologies
Head of Sustainable Energy Technology Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. AL-Dadah works currently supervises the following doctoral research projects:
- Anil Taskin (November 2020 to November 2024): Development of small-scale scroll expander for organic Rankine cycle. Sponsored by the Turkish Government.
- Andrew Makar (October 2020 to October 2024): Development of open cycle desiccant cooling system using metal organic framework adsorbent materials for air conditioning application. Sponsored by the British Council.
- Ibrahim Albaik (October 2019 to October 2023): Development and optimisation ...
Birmingham Fellow
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Migration, asylum, immigration detention, deportation, families, Article 8 rights, gender, men and masculinity, time, bureaucracies, legal courts, hostile environment
Emeritus Professor of Urban Education History
Director of the Voices of War & Peace Centre
School of Education
Ian is interested in the following research topics:
- material cultures of schooling;
- cultural diversity and race equality;
- anti-racist and refugee education;
- black history;
- museum and heritage education; the teaching of history.
He currently supervises a number of students including the following:
- Izzy Mohammed - Public archives, Representation and Integration in Post-War, Multicultural Urban Contexts: Birmingham and Manchester
- Alison Laitner - Discovering Childrens’ Voices and Experiences; Changes from family to institutional care ...
Associate Professor in Social Anthropology and African Studies
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I welcome enquiries from students interested in the anthropology of migration and diasporas; religion, particularly Pentecostalism; and kinship and care.
Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you鈥檙e interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...
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 ...