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
Director of LLM Programme (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Hwaidi currently accepts PhD candidates in the following areas:
鈥� Commercial law
鈥� International trade law
鈥� Law and technology
鈥� Contract law/ tort law
鈥� International finance and banking law
鈥� Law and sociology
鈥� Arbitration
鈥� Maritime law
He has supervised PhD students in the areas of the law of blockchain, drafting arbitration clauses in commercial contracts, carriage of goods by sea and privacy law.
Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Birmingham Law School
鈥� Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
鈥� International Commercial Arbitration
鈥� International Investment Law and Arbitration
鈥� Energy Law
鈥� Law and Technology
鈥� AI and Law
Barber Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Contract/Commercial law
Conflict of Laws
Arbitration
Comparative Law
International Trade and Finance
Current doctoral supervision
Professor Enonchong is currently supervising four doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas
Contractual Mechanisms for Reducing Risks in Long Term Oil and Gas Agreements
The Scope of the Liability of Arbitral Institutions towards the Disputing Parties
Judicial Review of International Arbitral Awards
Balancing the demands of procedural fairness and finality in ADR in ...
Associate Professor
Director of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
Dr Coe welcomes expressions of interest for prospective PhD students in his areas of interest, and the field of Media Law more broadly.
Associate Professor
Head of Postgraduate Research
Birmingham Law School
Dr Kokkinis is available to supervise doctoral researchers on corporate law, corporate governance, banking law and regulation and financial regulation. He has previously supervised research projects on shareholder activism, executive remuneration, banking regulatory architecture and the development of infrastructure through private sector involvement.
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.
Associate Professor in Law and Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School
criminal law, criminal procedure, terrorism, counter-terrorism, police, disproportionality in the criminal justice system, stop and search, jury diversity
Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution
Co-Deputy Head of Education (Education Review)
Birmingham Law School
dispute resolution, private international law
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
National and Global Patient Safety
Clinical Negligence Litigation
Assistant Professor in Commercial Conflict of Laws
Birmingham Law School
Commercial Conflict of Laws and International Commercial Litigation
Professor of Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School
Anthea has supervised research students in many aspects of criminal justice in the UK and internationally. She welcomes applications from UK and international students interested in any area of criminal justice including, but not limited to, electronic monitoring, pre-trial detention and bail, police powers, courts, prisons, community sentences, technologies and private and voluntary sector involvement in criminal justice.
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 ...