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 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

Dr 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 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.

Professor Asaf Siniver

Professor Asaf Siniver

Professor of International Security

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Professor Siniver is happy to discuss research proposals related to international security, diplomacy, conflict resolution, mediation, international law, Foreign Policy Analysis, contemporary US foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Dr Alice Sitch

Dr Alice Sitch

Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and prediction Models (BESTEAM) Team Lead
Co-Lead for Education for the Department of Applied Health Sciences

School of Health Sciences

Alice is interested in supervising students in the following areas:
• Methods for test evaluation
• Early-stage test evaluation
• Monitoring of progressive and recurrent conditions
• Test variation



Dr Konstantinos Skalomenos

Dr Konstantinos Skalomenos

Assistant Professor of Structural Engineering/Materials Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering

Currently, Dr Skalomenos is mentoring Ph.D. and Master students. Their research is related to:

  • Reduction of buckling in slender steel structures
  • Multi-objective design of steel braced structures
  • Behaviour of composite steel/concrete connections
  • Analysis and testing of high-strength steels
  • Downburst-resistant design of tall buildings

He is interested in supervising postgraduate students in the research fields of structural engineering and structural dynamics emphasizing on infrastructure resilience, structural and material efficiency, and implementation. ...