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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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 Dsilva Winfred Rufuss

Dr Dsilva Winfred Rufuss

Royal Society - SERB Newton International Fellow

School of Engineering

Dr. Rufuss would be happy to supervise research related to desalination, membrane processes, water reuse, water treatment, material advances in solar thermal techniques focussing on nanocomposites.

Dr Natalia (Natasha) Rulyova

Dr Natalia (Natasha) Rulyova

Associate Professor in Russian

Department of Modern Languages

Dr Rulyova's research interests include:

Self-translation
Collaborative translation
Re-translation
Translation Studies
Post-Soviet Russian media and new media
Genre Studies
Joseph Brodsky's translations and self-translations

Current:

• Mukile Kasongo, PhD (2018-date) Translation of Feminist Female African Authors into Russian in Late Soviet Period, Lead Supervisor.
• Olga Kenton Ph (2018-date) Writing a piece of non-fiction about Russian Immigrants in the UK, Co-supervisor.

Successfully submitted:

• Balsam Mustafa, PhD (2014-2018) Discourses of ...
















Dr Seb Rumsby

Dr Seb Rumsby

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

  • South East Asian Politics/Sociology/Anthropology
  • Religion and International Development
  • Ethno-religious politics
  • Transnational labour migration

Professor Anne-Marie Russell

Professor Anne-Marie Russell

Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing Science
School Head of Research

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Professor Russell offers pre doctoral, doctoral and post-doctoral supervision.

Current projects include:

  • The Assessment Treatment of Breathing Pattern Dysfunction
  • Living beyond a diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A mixed method exploration of patient related experience and unmet health care needs
  • Remote Monitoring of Patients with Chronic Lung Disease Including IPF
  • Patient & caregiver shared experiences of pulmonary fibrosis
  • Understanding the healthcare needs of people living with Human T-cell-Lymphotrophic-Virus-type1 (HTLV-1)
  • Investigation ...

Professor Martin Russell

Professor Martin Russell

Emeritus Professor of Information Engineering

School of Computer Science

Current PhD students are:

  • Xizi Wei: Automatic assessment of Motivational Interviews using Speech and Language technology
  • Mengjie Qian: Computer Assisted Language Learning for Children
  • Yikai Peng: Compensating for Object Variability in Object-Centered Human Activity Recognition
  • Guy Coop: Automatic Sentiment Analysis in Motivational Interview Conversations
  • Chloe Seivwright: Speech Recognition using Continuous State Hidden Markov Models

Dr Lorraine Ryan

Dr Lorraine Ryan

Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

Department of Modern Languages

Dr Ryan welcomes enquiries from research students who would like to pursue further study in the following areas:

  • Spanish Women's Writing. 
  • Cultural Memory in Contemporary Spain. 
  • The Representation of Spatiality in Spanish Culture. 
  • Spanish Collective Memory.
  • Contemporary Spanish Literature.

Dr. Ryan supervises the following doctoral students:

  • Niven Whatley (Lead Supervisor
  • Virginia Maguia (Lead Supervisor)
  • Denis Reddington (co-supervisor)
  • Ascenett Martínez López (Lead Supervisor).

Find out more - our PhD Hispanic Studies ...