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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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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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
Extensive experience in supervising PhD and MPhil students, as well as Undergraduate student research projects as well.

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.

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.

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 ...

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¡ ...