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 “legal theory”

Professor Chris Thornhill

Professor of Law

Birmingham Law School

Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Sudan; Constitutional Reform in ...

Dr Lydia Morgan

Dr Lydia Morgan

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)

Birmingham Law School

Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...




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鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...


Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

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.

Dr Iyan Offor

Dr Iyan Offor

Assistant Professor in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development

Birmingham Law School

Iyan welcomes proposals for postgraduate research within his areas of research expertise outlined above and below.

Iyan is currently supervising the following PhD research:

Mo Esan: Investigating the History, Text and Implementation of the Animal Welfare Strategy for Africa through the lens of Third World Approaches to International Law

Samuel Hazle: Reforming Animal Law through an Intersectional Lens: Law鈥檚 Humanizing Function, Socio-Legal Justice Movements, and the Ongoing Battle to Enable ...





Dr Alex Latham-Gambi

Dr Alex Latham-Gambi

Assistant Professor

Birmingham Law School

Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥 Constitutional theory
鈥 Legal/political philosophy
鈥 Public law
鈥 Human rights law
鈥 Housing law

Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.

Current PhD students:

Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review

Past PhD students:

Sylvester ...















Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani

Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani

Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics

Department of Theology and Religion

I welcome proposals across Islamic Studies, especially in Islamic law and ethics, that engage the textual resources of the Islamic intellectual traditions.

Current doctoral supervision

The phenomena of Maddhab change amongst Sunni legal schools in the Mamluk period
Spiritual striving in British Muslim Shia communities
Previous doctoral supervision
The Origins of Im膩m墨 岣d墨th: A Bio-bibliographical Cross-reference Analysis
Taqi al-Din al-Subki on ijtihad and the role of the Qur鈥檃n in his ...







Professor Karen McAuliffe

Professor Karen McAuliffe

Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow

Birmingham Law School

Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:

The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...





Dr Shaimaa Abdelkarim

Dr Shaimaa Abdelkarim

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







Dr Gavin Byrne

Dr Gavin Byrne

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:

Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law



Dr Shahab Saqib

Dr Shahab Saqib

Assistant Professor in Law

Birmingham Law School

Discrimination Law
International Human Rights Law
Critical Legal Studies
Citizenship Studies
Migration
Islamic Law
Pakistan Law





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 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.

Professor Erika Rackley

Professor Erika Rackley

Professor of Law

Birmingham Law School

Professor Rackley has supervised several doctorates to completion and is happy to discuss proposals falling within her research interests with prospective PhD applicants. She is especially interested in supervising research in the following areas:
鈥 Legal History 鈥 particularly on topics relating to women, women鈥檚 pressure groups and feminist law reform
鈥 Judges and the Courts 鈥 including judicial diversity, judicial decision-making, and feminist judging and judgment-writing



Dr Caroline Radcliffe

Dr Caroline Radcliffe

Reader in Drama and Performance

Department of English Literature

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 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.