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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Professor of Chemistry
School of Chemistry
Tim Softley has supervised over 35 PhD students, mainly at the University of Oxford, including students who have moved on eventually to being Professors at University of Oxford, University College London, ETH Zurich, University of Arizona.
Assistant Professor in Mineral Processing
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Application of mineral processing techniques in the extraction and recycling of strategic elements and critical materials. If you are interested in this subject area, please contact Dr Sommerville.
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Jian Song is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Thermo-mechanical energy conversion and storage
- Thermal energy (heat and cold) storage
- Renewable energy technologies
- Industrial decarbonisation
Please feel free to contact Dr Jian Song for more details if you are interested in studying any of these topics.
Reader
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Leung currently supervises 9 doctoral researchers in the area of machinability of advanced alloys and composites, micro machining, process development together with workpiece integrity modelling / prediction.
Lecturer in Vehicle Aerodynamics
Head of Admissions, School of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Dr Soper is interested in supervising doctorial research students in the following areas:
- Railway vehicle aerodynamics
- Wind effects on vehicles
- The interaction between moving vehicles and infrastructure
- Wind effects on crops and trees
- Novel experimental techniques to measure turbulent flows
His current PhD students are:
- Panos Illiadis
- Anam Hashimi
- Xiadong
Professor of Occupational Epidemiology
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Sorahan is interested in supervising doctoral researchers in the identification and quantification of occupational cancer risks by means of epidemiological approaches.
Associate Professor
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Dr Soundy is supervising 12 PhD students and multiple masters students.
Teaching Fellow
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Research Students since 2001
2002-2005 Elizabeth Mavroudi, Being Palestinian in Athens: Constructing Citizenship, Identities and transnational political networks (ESRC) completed at University of Durham.
2004-2011 Sunita Dewitt, Geographies of Asian ‘Alternative’ Economic Spaces in the West Midland: understanding enterprise creation, embeddedness and access to finance and advice (ESRC)
Assistant Professor in Psychology
School of Psychology
Dr Sowden-Carvalho has expertise in experimental measures of social and motor functioning, including facial emotion production and perception, theory of mind, automatic imitation and empathy. She investigates the cognitive underpinnings of both typical and atypical social cognition, including in clinical conditions such as autism, Parkinson’s Disease, eating disorders and conduct disorder.
She is also the director of the U21 Autism Research Network, investigating autism-related language preferences, camouflaging and mental ...
Assistant Professor in History of Art
Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
decolonial methodologies in art, diaspora art practices, contemporary art from the 'Global South', decolonial archival practice, cultural identity, multilingualism, creolisation, belonging beyond the human
Assistant Professor in Creative Practice
Department of Film and Creative Writing
At present I am looking to supervise PhD research primarily in two areas: 1) projects using experimental methodologies to bring performing arts practice into film and digital media; and 2) projects that involve a serious engagement with critical black studies.
Honorary Professor of Experimental Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
I am supervising one research student at present: Hasnain Panjwani. Starting in Oct 2011 I will be supervising Miranda Bradshaw as a CASE student with Astrium.