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.
麻豆精选 results for “human rights”
Professor of Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy
Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement
Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.
Associate Professor
Head of Planning and Strategy
Birmingham Law School
Damian is keen to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
International and Regional Protection of Human Rights
The work of international courts
Human Rights Research Methods
LGBTQI Rights
Feminist and Queer Legal Theories
Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights
Department of English Literature
鈥� Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
鈥� Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
鈥� Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory
Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� International and comparative human rights law
鈥� Socio-economic rights
鈥� Decolonization of law and justice
鈥� Critical approaches to human rights
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
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鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.
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.
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鈥檚 research seeks to ...
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.