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. 

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ results for “health care law”

Professor Nicola Gale

Professor Nicola Gale

Head of the School of Social Policy and Society
Professor of Health Policy and Sociology, Health Services Management Centre

Health Services Management Centre

Nicola is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in any of the following areas:

  • Preventative health care policy (especially using risk work theory)
  • Sociology of health and healing (especially complementary and alternative medicine)
  • Sociology of work and professions (especially embodied forms of learning, lay health workers)
  • Gender and sexuality (especially around LGBTQ health inequalities)
  • Sociology of the body and embodiment (especially body work theory)
  • Interdisciplinary and applied health research, using qualitative methods ...

Professor Jean V. McHale

Professor of Health Care Law

Birmingham Law School

Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,

Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research






Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research

Birmingham Law School

Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law



Dr Kirsty Moreton

Dr Kirsty Moreton

Associate Professor in Law

Birmingham Law School

Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

Professor Rosie Harding

Professor Rosie Harding

Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean

Birmingham Law School

Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:

- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor G. Neil Thomas

Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods
Director, NIHR Research Support Service National Collaborative
Director NIHR Research Support Service Birmingham Hub and partners Keele, and Warwick

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Professor Thomas is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following general areas:

  • Determinants of cardiometabolic disease, particularly atrial fibrillation,  morbidity and mortality.
  • Approaches to attenuate cardiometabolic disease and associated risk factors and improve care pathways for their management.
  • Health consequences of air pollution.

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Thomas on the contact details above or through FindAPhD.com.

Professor Thomas has ...

Dr Benjamin Costello

Dr Benjamin Costello

Research Fellow

School of Psychology

Ben is interested in supervising students in the areas of qualitative research related to mental health, applied health research, and ethics (including applied/practical ethics). He currently supervises students on qualitative research projects.

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor Kate Bedford

Professor of Law and Political Economy

Birmingham Law School

I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation





Professor KK Cheng

Professor KK Cheng

Professor of Public Health and Primary Care

Department of Applied Health Sciences

KK has supervised over 20 doctoral students at the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡. Important examples of publications arising from their theses include:

Li B, Pallan M, Liu WJ, Hemming K, Frew E, Lin R, Liu W, Martin J, Zanganeh M, Hurley K, Cheng KK, Adab P. The CHIRPY DRAGON intervention in preventing obesity in Chinese primary-school--aged children: A cluster-randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2019 Nov 26;16(11):e1002971. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002971. (this was one of ...

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Professor Shakila Thangaratinam

Honorary Professor

Department of Metabolism and Systems Science

Primary Supervision

Completed

  • PhD Pundir J (2016-2022) Interventions to improve fertility outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
  • PhD A Hamilton (2013-2019) Views of women and healthcare professionals on lifestyle interventions in pregnancy
  • PhD B Wattar - (2013-2017) - Improving health outcomes for pregnant women with metabolic risk factors
  • PhD J Allotey (2014-2018) Improving the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
  • PhD E Rogozinska (2014-2017) Diet and physical activity based interventions for antenatal ...

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Associate Professor

Health Services Management Centre

PhD Supervision Interests

Sexual Health in children and young people
Sexual behaviours in children and young people
Evaluation of policy and programmes
Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties






Dr Jonathan (Jon) Ives

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Jonathan is currently supervising two PhD students:

  • Derek Kyte (2011 – 2014; FT) The Methodological and Ethical Issues Associated with Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Clinical Trials
  • Bert Vanderhaegen (2013 - 2019; PT) A Critical Reflection upon the Nature, Limits and Impact of Empirical Ethics’

Former PhD students are:

  • Greg Moorlock (2009-2012; FT)  An empirically informed ethical analysis of directed and conditional cadaveric organ donation. Awarded in 2012.
  • Simon Jenkins ...

Dr Muhammad Saqib Rabbani

Dr Muhammad Saqib Rabbani

Research Fellow

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering

He co-supervise UG, PG, and PhD projects on novel topics on antennas, propagations, filters, metasurfaces for sensors/radars and other wireless systems.

Dr Caroline Radcliffe

Dr Caroline Radcliffe

Reader in Drama and Performance

Department of Drama and Theatre Arts

Caroline Radcliffe welcomes any informal enquiries from potential MPhil or PhD applicants. I am interested in supervising theses within any areas of my specialisms, also practice-based research or doctorates.

Caroline recently supervised or am currently supervising MPhil and PhD students in areas such as site-specific theatre, visual and scenographic techniques, actor training in relation to opera direction, Victorian Pantomime and Black-Country Industry, and Phillipe Gaulier.pieceRevolution. Dr Radcliffe’s research seeks to ...

Professor Jonathan Radcliffe

Professor Jonathan Radcliffe

Professor in Energy Systems and Policy
Fellow of the Institute for Global Innovation, Resilient Cities theme lead

School of Chemical Engineering

PhD supervision in energy storage, systems and innovation.

Dr Mohammad Radfar

Dr Mohammad Radfar

Associate Professor of Sustainable Urban Design and Planning

Dubai Campus

Public spaces, Urban social sustainability, Cognitive City, Human-centric cities, Cross-cultural urban design, Place-based concepts, Urban regeneration and Masterplanning, Landscape and green infrastructire

Dr Raeni

Dr Raeni

Assistant Professor

The Department of Accounting

Raeni invites PhD applications within the accounting discipline, particularly in areas of accounting for climate change, climate finance, climate-related financial disclosures, sustainable development, and management and public sector accounting.

 

Dr Shamini Ragavan

Dr Shamini Ragavan

Associate Professor in Law (Dubai)

Birmingham Law School

I am looking to supervise doctoral candidates in areas of criminal evidence, ethics (values) and legal education/mentoring in pedagogical curricula designs that enhances student learning and teacher reflection.

Dr Ayesha Sabah Rahman

Dr Ayesha Sabah Rahman

Associate Professor in Microbiology

School of Dentistry

Current projects:

  • MIBTP-Case award: Mechanistic Evaluation of the effect of dry coated antibiotic amino-acid complexes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Preparation of Micro/Nanoparticles for the delivery of high-dose antimicrobial agents to the respiratory system in cystic fibrosis patients
  • Investigation of the effect of amino acids on P. aeruginosa biofilms and pigment formation.

Emeritus Professor John Raine

Emeritus Professor John Raine

Professor of Management in Criminal Justice

Department of Public Administration and Policy

  • Supervisor for a number of PhDs on aspects of criminal justice, public management and local governance
  • Supervisor for a number of MSc dissertations

Professor George Edward Rainger

Professor George Edward Rainger

Deputy Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Director of Research
Professor of Chronic Inflammation

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

Professor Rainger is interested in supervising doctoral research on in vitro modelling of the cellular pathology of atherosclerosis.

Dr Mabel Rajendran

Dr Mabel Rajendran

Assistant Professor

School of Mathematics

Mabel is happy to supervise students who are interested in the analysis of differential equations with applications in Biology. If you are interested, please email her.

Dr Adam Ramadan

Dr Adam Ramadan

Associate Professor in Human Geography

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dr Ramadan welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in his areas of interest. These include topics around the political geography of the Middle East, forced displacement and refugees, and everyday geopolitics. He is also happy to discuss topics within political geography more broadly, or between political and cultural geography.

Dr Paulina Ramirez

Dr Paulina Ramirez

Associate Professor of of Strategy and Innovation

The Department of Strategy and International Business

I am interested in supervising PhDs that examine any of the following areas:

  • The dynamics of national and regional business and innovation systems
  • The emergence of and knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs) and global innovation networks (GINs)
  • The impact of GINs of national and regional innovation and business systems
  • Global knowledge flows

I prefer to supervise qualitative research methods.