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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Assistant Professor
School of Biosciences
I have supervised three PhD students, one of which has recently passed their viva and one has just submitted their thesis.
Senior Lecturer
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Prospective graduate students interested in Miguel’s research topics (see “Research” below) may contact him by email.
Professor of Neurodevelopmental Conditions
Deputy Head of Education
School of Psychology
- Georgie Agar, PhD candidate – University 麻豆精选
- Lucy Licence, PhD candidate – University 麻豆精选
- Catherine Laverty, PhD candidate – University 麻豆精选
- Andrea Thomas, PhD candidate – University 麻豆精选
- Alice Winsor, PhD candidate – University 麻豆精选 (co-supervisor)
- Connor Keating, PhD candidate – University 麻豆精选 (co-supervisor)
- Kaysha Lucas, ClinPsyD candidate – University 麻豆精选
- Natalie Hallett, ClinPsyD candidate – University 麻豆精选
- Elizabeth Hawkins, ClinPsyD candidate ...
Associate Professor in Clinical Exercise Physiology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Director of Studies
- PhD: Abi Saunders – Pressure overload – Using echocardiography to investigate left ventricular responses to resistance exercise.
- PhD: Abbie Bell - Sedentary Behaviour in Coronary Heart Disease and its Effect on Cardiometabolic Risk Markers and Left Ventricular Function and Structure (Viva Voce – Nov/Dec 2024)
- MSc by Research: Natasha Wing – The effects of static water immersion and different body postures on the cardiovascular system in healthy ...
Associate Professor in Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Dr Richardson would be happy to hear from potential graduate students with research proposals around the following areas:
Russia
International borders / Territorial disputes
Political geography / geopolitics
Sovereignty
Identity politics
Nationalism and national identity
Director of the Clinical Immunology Services
Professor and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Immunology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Doctorates
- MD – Prevalence of MGUS in acute admissions
- PhD – Role of B cells in HIV
- PhD - The role of B cells in non small cell lung cancer (current)
- PhD - The Immunology of recurrent miscarriage (current)
- DClinSci - Prevalence of secondary immunodeficiency in stem cell transplant recovery (current)
Other
- Regularly supervisors masters and batchelor degree projects
- Educational supervisor for clinical lecturer and academic clinical fellow
If you ...
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.
Professor of Music
Department of Music
I welcome PhD project proposals on aspects of western art music from analytical or historical perspectives, on analysis of popular music genres, and on performance practice (primarily piano). I currently supervise PhD projects on Tchaikovksy, Michael Tippett, Louis Vierne and British string quartets. I have supervised past postgraduate research projects on Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Kod谩ly, Turina, Brazilian piano music and British Wagnerism.
Assistant Professor in Heritage and History
Department of History
I provide PhD supervision across various fields of heritage, public, and community archaeology, with a particular focus on public participation, wellbeing, and communication. Don鈥檛 hesitate to contact me to discuss research ideas or potential projects.
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature
Department of English Literature
I am keen to supervise projects on any aspect of 20th and 21st century literature related to my specific research interests.
Projects I would love to supervise:
How to Do Things with Books in Contemporary Britain (or Iceland, or India, or Pitcairn!); publisher鈥檚 reject piles; Amazon鈥檚 algorithms; Book Tok; computer poetry; literature and the British Council/AHRC/UNESCO; Conservative government policy effects on the arts; Brum literary culture; tech memoirs; modernism鈥檚 contemporary ...
Senior Lecturer
School of Chemical Engineering
Ongoing Projects (PhD)
- Ibrahim Palabiyik – Product recovery and thin film cleaning in FMCG industry (co-supervise with Prof Peter Fryer)
- Majed Al-Harthi – Investigating pasteuriser fouling and cleaning (co-supervise with Prof Peter Fryer)
- Iain Kings – Supercritical Water Oxidation (co-supervise with Dr Bushra Al-Duri)
- Wan Wan Dagang – Adhesion of Biofilms (co-supervise with Prof Zhibing Zhang)
- Andrew Savage – The use of electro hydrodynamics for producing mono-dispersed droplets (external PhD ...
Professor of Public Engagement in Science
School of Biosciences
Alice Roberts has co-supervised a postgraduate student studying locomotor behaviour and anatomy in human and non-human apes. She is currently a member of the supervisory team for a postgraduate student investigating ageing in chimpanzees.