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. 

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Dr Nicholas Stock

Dr Nicholas Stock

British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Education

Nick is currently co-supervisor for a PhD that examines students with classical academy backgrounds and their engagement with Shakespeare.

Dr Tonie Stolberg

Dr Tonie Stolberg

Assistant Professor of Science and Science Education
Student Mobility Lead
Welfare Officer

School of Education

Postgraduate responsibilities include: EdD (Learning and learning contexts); MRes, MPhil & PhD supervision.

Topics of current and recently completed doctoral studies include:

  • Religion and Sexuality Education: A narrative study with Christian young men.
  • Enhancing children’s perceptions of an engaging science education; examining the relationship between inquiry-based learning and students’ engagement with science
  • Sex Education: Perceptions and experiences of Window of Hope Tutors in Ghanaian colleges of Education
  • Critical Thinking in ...

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge

Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights

Department of English Literature

• Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
• Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
• Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory



Dr Veselina Stoyanova

Dr Veselina Stoyanova

Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business
Programme Director DL MSc International Management

The Department of Strategy and International Business

Dr. Stoyanova welcomes the opportunity to supervise research students with a research interest in:

• Organizational change directed towards sustainability

• Developing dynamic capabilities for adaptation to sustainability challenges, including climate change and broader societal transformations

• Exploring strategic development and change during turbulent periods, such as financial and economic uncertainty

• Sustainable agriculture and the implementation of regenerative business models

• International entrepreneurship

Professor Scott Sturgeon

Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy

I am eager to supervise research students in epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind.

Professor Iain Styles

Professor Iain Styles

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

School of Computer Science

Professor Styles has supervised more than twenty PhD students to successful completion. They have gone on to a range of careers, including prestigious postdoctoral positions at UCL, EMBL, Harvard, Cambridge, NPL and others. He is interested in supervising students working on computational techniques for the analysis of complex biological datasets.

Dr Jibran Sualeh Muhammad

Dr Jibran Sualeh Muhammad

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Sciences

Jibran has successfully supervised multiple MSc and PhD students during his time at the University of Sharjah, UAE. Two of his students received the Best Thesis Award, and one was awarded a dual degree from the University of Lübeck, Germany. He is actively recruiting postgraduate and doctoral research students in the following programs:

  • MSci Biomedical Sciences
  • MRes Cancer Sciences
  • Ph.D. Cancer Research

 

Dr Akila Subasinghe

Dr Akila Subasinghe

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science

Extensive experience in supervising PhD and MPhil students, as well as Undergraduate student research projects as well.

Dr Fraser Sugden

Dr Fraser Sugden

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
International Lead (Research)

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Agrarian change, Migration, Rural political economy; Agrarian history (particularly of Scotland and South Asia), Land reform, Irrigation and climate resiliance.

Dr Ellie Suh

Dr Ellie Suh

Assistant Professor in Social Policy

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Wealth inequalities, social and economic mobility, long-term saving and pension policy, assets and debt, gender and finance, intergenerational transfers.

Dr Jussi Suikkanen

Dr Jussi Suikkanen

Reader in Philosophy

Department of Philosophy

I am more than happy to supervise PG students on the following areas:

Metaethics
Ethical theories
Practical reason, reasons, and value theory
Free will, moral responsibility and personal Identity
Well-being and happiness
Political philosophy
Realism and anti-realism debates
Early modern philosophy
Some areas of applied ethics such as population ethics and the ethics of climate change
I have supervised Masters dissertations on topics such as egoism, the Euthyphro contrast, animal ...










Dr Erin Sullivan

Dr Erin Sullivan

Reader in Shakespeare

Shakespeare Institute

I would be happy to hear from prospective research students interested in Shakespeare and emotion, Shakespeare and the body and/or soul, Shakespeare and twenty-first-century performance, and Shakespeare and digital culture. In 2018 I was very fortunate to receive University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡'s Award for Excellence in Doctoral Researcher Supervision for the College of Arts and Law.

Further information about the PhD application and funding is available on the University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ ...