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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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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
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.
Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Tommer is open to expressions of interest in postgraduate research which are related to any of his research interests.
Professor of Classics
Dean of Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences (2014-2018; 2019-)
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I welcome proposals dealing with any of the following:
Latin literature and cultural identity (first centuries BCE/CE)
The city of Rome in ancient and modern literature and culture
Current and most recent postgraduates
Zoe Fox (co-supervised with Lloyd Jenkins and Kate Nicholls) 鈥� Understanding Demolitions in Augustan Rome in the comparative context of Rome in the 1920s and 1930s
Miriam Bay (co-supervised with David Hemsoll) 鈥� Cultivating Myth and Composing ...
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
Head of Department for Linguistics and Communication
Department of Linguistics and Communication
I am keen to supervise postgraduate research on relations between language, politics and society, especially (but not exclusively) in recent British history.