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. 

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Professor Shishir Shetty

Professor Shishir Shetty

Professor in Liver Tumour Immunology, Interim Director of the Centre for Liver and Gastrointestinal Research
Cancer Research UK Advanced Clinician Scientist
Honorary Consultant Hepatologist

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy

Professor Shetty is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:

  • Imaging and analysis of immune cell adhesion and migration via liver endothelial cells
  • Leukocyte/endothelial interactions in the inflamed liver and liver cancer
  • The role of C-type lectins and scavenger receptors in liver fibrosis and liver cancer

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Shishir Shetty directly, or for any general ...

Professor Zongbo Shi

Professor Zongbo Shi

Professor of Atmospheric Biogeochemistry

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zongbo Shi has research interests in atmospheric chemistry, machine learning, Net Zero, indoor air quality, health and mineral dust

Professor Shi welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in the above areas.

Dr Adrian Shields

Dr Adrian Shields

Clinical Lecturer

Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy

Enquires should be directed to a.m.shields@bham.ac.uk

Dr Hiroki Shin

Dr Hiroki Shin

Associate Professor in History of Energy and Environmental Humanities
125th Anniversary Fellow

Department of History

Dr Shin welcomes enquiries about potential postgraduate projects on all aspects of energy history, environmental history and modern economic history.

Dr Eric Shiu

Dr Eric Shiu

Assistant Professor in Marketing and Innovation Management

Department of Marketing

Eric supervises students of undergraduate, master’s and PhD levels, and has been an examiner of a number of external and internal PhD theses. To date he has successfully nurtured more than ten PhD graduates.

Dr Oluwaseyi Shorinola

Dr Oluwaseyi Shorinola

Assistant Professor

School of Biosciences

Seyi is interested in supervising MSc and PhD students on topics relating to crop genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics; he welcomes applications via email.

 

Dr Richard Shorten

Dr Richard Shorten

Associate Professor in Political Theory

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Richard Shorten is happy to consider supervising doctoral researchers in the broad areas of modern political philosophy, ideology or rhetoric.

Dr Manbinder Sidhu

Dr Manbinder Sidhu

Associate Professor

Health Services Management Centre

Dr Sidhu is interested in supervising doctoral researchers who plan to use qualitative methods/rapid methodology in whole or parts of their research projects. He is particularly interested in the following areas: 

  • Primary care
  • Quality and safety
  • Organisational collaboration

Professor Stan Siebert

Professor Stan Siebert

Professor of Labour Economics

Department of Management

  • Industrial relations (unions, worker participation);
  • European social and labour policy;
  • Vocational training and education;
  • Wage issues (gender wage gap, minimum wages, wage inequalities)

Professor Nando Sigona

Professor Nando Sigona

Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement
Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity (IRIS)

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Nando welcomes proposals for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the following areas: 

  • Forced displacement and globalisation
  • Sociology of statelessness
  • Dual citizenship and the experiences of dual citizens
  • The intersection between migration, rights and citizenship 
  • Everyday experiences of superdiversity
  • Neoliberalism, globalisation and governance of human mobility
  • The politics of refugee voices and silences
  • Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism 
  • Undocumented migrants and experiences of ‘illegality’ through generations
  • Child and family migration 
  • Transnationalism and ...

Dr Alex Silk

Associate Professor in Philosophy

Department of Philosophy

I'm happy to supervise graduate students in philosophy of language, ethics, and metaethics.

Emeritus Professor Nigel Simpkins

Emeritus Professor Nigel Simpkins

Professor of Chemistry

School of Chemistry

Nigel is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas.

  • Asymmetric organic synthesis.
  • Synthesis of Natural products and analogues.
  • Synthesis aimed at novel molecular scaffolds, including boxes formed using templating methods.