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 Partha Roy

Dr Partha Roy

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 ...

Dr Alexander Royal

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 ...

Mr Gavin Rudge

Mr Gavin Rudge

Research Fellow

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Master's in Public Health (MPH) 

 

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