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. 

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Dr Sophie Boyron

Dr Sophie Boyron

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law

Current doctoral supervision:

Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:

Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation














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 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







Dr Gavin Byrne

Dr Gavin Byrne

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:

Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law



Dr Maureen Mapp

Dr Maureen Mapp

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:
• Digital asset regulation
• African customary law in juridical settings
• Gender equality and sentencing
• Decolonising IP law





Dr Chen Zhu

Dr Chen Zhu

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Dr Zhu considers postgraduate research proposals falling into the following areas:

- Historical and Theoretical Aspects of Copyright Law
- Legal Construction of Authorship
- Music Copyright Law
- Software Related Intellectual Property Issues




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 ...

Professor Matt Houlbrook

Professor Matt Houlbrook

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 ...

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)