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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 in Modern History
Department of History
Listed below are the fields in which Sabine Lee is able to offer supervision of research postgraduates.
Children Born of War; Children and War
History of UN Peacekeeping
Conflict-related gender-based violence
Social consequences of war and conflict
20th century British history
20th century international relations
19th and 20th century history of science (particularly mathematics and physics)
20th German history

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’re interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...

Professor of Central and Eastern European History
Department of History
I am currently first supervisor for the following students: Jonathan Conde, Graham Cox, Jared Feuerstein, Owen Grey and Marta Starostina.
I am happy to supervise doctoral work in the following areas: history of modern Eastern Europe, history of nationalism, interwar history, history of the First and Second World War.

Associate Professor in International History
Department of History
Steve Morewood's research interests include the military, political and strategic history of the modern East Mediterranean region (late19th and 20th centuries). He has supervised several PhDs to a successful conclusion with some students going on to publish their dissertations in book form. Topics have included the Greek press during the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22, Turkey and the Straits in the early Cold War period and the Greek-Cypriot perspective in the ...

Assistant Professor in British History
Director, Centre for Midlands History and Cultures
Department of History
I am happy to supervise doctoral researchers on topics relating to my research specialisms, just get in touch. I would be particularly keen to hear from students who are interested in working on: memory and the commemoration of conflict; family and local memory; family history; the social history of archives; the social and cultural history of the Midlands, especially during the early modern period.

Lecturer in Modern History
Department of History
I currently supervise or co-supervise a number of MA and PhD students. Subjects in which I am interested include:
The modern history of drugs, especially with a focus on Britain.
The modern history of drugs and warfare.
The history, theory and practice of air power, particularly during the era of total war.
The military history of the two World Wars, especially from a British perspective.

Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History
Department of History
I would be delighted to hear from students intending to work on any aspect of Modern German history, as well as those with thematic interests in the histories of religion, war and memory in any European context since 1800.

Associate Professor in International Politics
Department of Political Science and International Studies
I would welcome PhD applications in areas related to my research interests below, and I would encourage potential supervisees to get in touch:
- international conflict, conflict management and resolution
- international organisations, the European Union
- state recognition
- statehood, sovereignty
- secession
- unrecognised/ de facto states

Associate Professor in Ancient History
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I welcome proposals for supervision in any aspect of Roman History, especially political aspects of the Roman Republic and Early Principate, Imperial ideology, International Relations and diplomacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to history and material culture.
Postgraduate research projects I have supervised or am currently supervising include:
Ben Salisbury, ‘Before Public Opinion: The Role of Tribunes of the Plebs in Creating, Manipulating, and Responding to Popular Sentiment in the Late Roman ...

Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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 the History of Warfare and Conflict
Department of History
I would welcome PhD proposals on the following topics: British colonial warfare (including war during the era of decolonisation), Counterinsurgency, and the British army 1815-1945.

Senior Lecturer in colonial and post-colonial studies
Department of Modern Languages
I am happy to offer postgraduate research supervision in the following fields:
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
British and French imperial history
Decolonisation and the End of Empire
Colonial memory
Nineteenth and Twentieth French History
I supervise or co-supervises MA dissertation students in the above mentioned areas, and perform the role of PhD supervisor for several PhD theses:
Dunya Ismael (as lead supervisor): ‘Retro-cultural translation: neutralising cultural capital accumulation and power ...
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 ...