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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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Professor of Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy

Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement

Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.

Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories

Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights
Department of English Literature
• Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
• Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
• Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory

Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
• Third World Approaches to International Law
• Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
• Critical Approaches to Human Rights
• Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
• Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
• Law and Abolitionist Praxis

Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...

Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
• International and comparative human rights law
• Socio-economic rights
• Decolonization of law and justice
• Critical approaches to human rights

Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights

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’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...

Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights

Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.
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 – 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 – 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
• Russian and Russophone poetry (19th-21st Century)
• Russian Formalism and literary theory
• Comparative modernisms, world literature, post-colonialism
• (Modernist) performance culture
• 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 ...