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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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Assistant Professor in Finance
The Department of Finance
Partha is interested in supervising postgraduate research students within the wider areas of corporate finance. He is keen on undertaking multi-disciplinary research exploring how various disciplines such as climate, sustainability, psychology, politics, and sociology affect and connect to various dimensions of corporate finance research. Postgraduate research topics may include but are not limited to:
- Institutional Investors
- ESG
- Climate Finance
- Corporate Investments and Risk-taking
- Corporate Governance
- Social and Political Issues in ...
Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Alexander is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Cement-bentonite cut-off walls retarding solute migration
- Subsurface interactions between water and soil with respect to geotechnical applications
- The geotechnical factors impacting upon the successful use of trenchless technologies
- Geohazards, with particular interest in the influence of damaged utilities on behavior of surrounding ground and the role of clay mineralogy on the behavior of the ground
If you are ...

Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Master's in Public Health (MPH)

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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