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.

Start your search

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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. 

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ results for “environmental law”

Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

Professor Aleksandra Cavoski

Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)

Birmingham Law School

Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.

Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.

Current PhD students
• Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...




Professor Chris Thornhill

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 ...

Dr Walters Nsoh

Dr Walters Nsoh

Associate Professor in Law
Programme Director, Online LLM in Energy and Environmental Law

Birmingham Law School

Dr Nsoh is happy to supervise within the following broad areas:

Innovative approaches such as conservation covenants, payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsets in conservation
Biodiversity and nature conservation law
Property (land) rights, land use, land tenure and livelihoods
Forest ownership and sustainability
Regulation of natural resources
Ecosystem services
Indigenous rights







Professor Joy Porter

Professor Joy Porter

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 ...

Dr Sandra Ingelkofer

Dr Sandra Ingelkofer

Assistant Professor

Birmingham Law School

Sandra is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:

German Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
European Union Law

Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting an official application.





Dr Kieren McGuffin

Dr Kieren McGuffin

Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)

Birmingham Law School

Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:

Migration
Refugee Law


Dr Scott Glaberman

Dr Scott Glaberman

Associate Professor
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice

School of Biosciences

Dr Scott Glaberman's lab is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:

  • Leveraging evolutionary principles to understand species sensitivity to chemicals
  • Analysing toxicology data within a One Health framework using big data approaches
  • Developing nematodes (including C. elegans) as model organisms in toxicology
  • Advancing environmental monitoring of contaminants through risk-based approaches
  • Reimagining risk assessment practices for environmental contaminants
Investigating evolutionary mechanisms of cancer resistance and ...

Professor Janine Natalya Clark

Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law

Birmingham Law School

Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
* Transitional justice
* Resilience
* War and armed conflict
* Environmental impacts of war
* Posthumanism






Professor Sam Lucas

Professor Sam Lucas

Professor of Cerebrovascular, Exercise & Environmental Physiology

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Professor Lucas has supervised numerous research Masters and PhD students in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, and Postdoctoral Fellows at UoB. As both a primary and co-supervisor Prof Lucas has 16 PhD and 13 MSc (research) completions, and currently co/supervises 10 PhD and 4 MSc (research) students. The details of his graduate student supervision and the subjects/areas of work are listed below: 

Postdoctoral Fellows

2023-        Dr Jun ...

Robert Elliott

Robert Elliott

Professor of Economics
Director of Research - Department of Economics

Business School

Professor Elliott is available to supervise PhD students across a broad range of topics including international and development economics and environmental and energy economics. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged and students will need to be familar with the manipulation of large data sets and econometric techniques and methods.

David Maddison

David Maddison

Professor of Economics

The Department of Economics

Any area of Environmental or Natural Resource Economics

Dr Catherine L. Muller

Dr Catherine L. Muller

Research Fellow
(Guest Lecturer)

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Doctoral Research supervision:

Doctoral Researcher: Juliana Antunes de Azevedo
Topic: Urban Heat and Energy Demand: Application of an urban meteorological network
This doctoral research will analyse the temporal and spatial variability Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡'s UHI and its relationship with household energy consumption using high-resolution meteorological data from BUCL, MODIS and Landsat ETM+ data and Energy Consumption data.

Supervisor: Dr. Lee Chapman

Co-supervisor: Dr. Catherine L. Muller

 

MSc dissertation supervision (various ...



Dr Cheng Qian

Research Fellow

School of Engineering

  • Co-supervisor for PhD students Pansa Noiskul and Vishant Shingair
  • MSc project co-supervisor for Weixin Ren, “The Virtual Aquarium”
  • Final Year Project for Robert Grainger, the creation of a VR Garden for treating cgronic pain in children. 

Professor Muireann Quigley

Professor Muireann Quigley

Professor of Law, Medicine, and Technology

Birmingham Law School

Biolaw, property in the body and biomaterials, the use of the behavioural sciences in law and policy, (bio)technologies and law.

Dr Steven Quigley

Dr Steven Quigley

Senior Lecturer

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

Current and recent projects:

• Lin Zhang : Numerical Simulation of Granular Media using Reconfigurable Computing and GPU Computing

• Jing Hu: Partial Differential Equation Solutions based on Reconfigurable Computing,

• Abed Abu-Issa: Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits with Low Power Consumption and High Fault Coverage

• Phak Len Eh Kan: Speaker Verification using Reconfigurable Computing

• Simon Parish: Behavioural synthesis of circuits for aerospace condition monitoring systems

• Dawn











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Dr Tara Lai Quinlan

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

Dr Adam Quinn

Dr Adam Quinn

Associate Professor in American and International Politics

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Dr Quinn welcomes enquiries from those wishing to undertake doctoral research in the following areas:
• United States foreign policy and grand strategy
• United States politics

Those with a serious interest in pursuing PhD research are encouraged to consult me directly by email. and to include a detailed a research proposal. For guidance on what a good research proposal should contain, please see the departmental guidance available online



Professor Andrew Quinn

Professor Andrew Quinn

Professor of Climate Adaptation
Director of Education, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Department of Civil Engineering

Professor Quinn has supervised 16 PhD students and numerous MSc dissertation students to successful completion. These students have collectively published over 20 journal papers and many conference papers of their own and have gone on to become researchers, consultants and senior engineers. Professor Quinn currently supervises 2 PhD students and is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Wind structure and statistics
  • Wind effects on transport systems ...

Dr Mary Quinton

Dr Mary Quinton

Assistant Professor in Sport and Exercise Psychology

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

Georgia Bird (Economic and Social Research Council PhD student 2019-2023: Athletes’ emotion regulation and mental health)