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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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Associate Professor in Environmental Archaeology
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Past PhD students supervised by David have worked on analogue studies of the plants and insects from hay meadows (with Dr Pam Grinter) and the Palaeoentomology of estuarine deposits at Goldcliff, Gwent (with Dr Emma Tetlow).
At present, David is co-supervising the PhDs of:
Shelagh Norton - who is working on the archaeology and the past environments of the Berth Hillfort, Shropshire and other ‘marshforts’ in the British Isles.
Zena ...

Professor of Applied Mathematics
School of Mathematics
Dave has supervised or co-supervised 7 successful PhD candidates in topics working on fluid mechanics in biomedicine and biotechnology, in addition to supporting the development of many others.
Highly-qualified candidates interested in biological fluid dynamics and/or modelling in endocrinology are warmly encouraged to get in touch about PhD supervision.

Professor of Applied Mathematics
School of Mathematics
Dave has supervised or co-supervised 7 successful PhD candidates in topics working on fluid mechanics in biomedicine and biotechnology, in addition to supporting the development of many others.
Highly-qualified candidates interested in biological fluid dynamics and/or modelling in endocrinology are warmly encouraged to get in touch about PhD supervision.
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
School of Physics and Astronomy
PhDs in multi-messenger gravitational lensing, and applications to fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology.

Associate Professor in Eighteenth-Century History
Department of History
Kate encourages contact from potential postgraduate students considering working on the following areas: eighteenth-century British material culture, women, domestic spaces, property, emotions, the senses, trade, consumption, manufacturing or skill.

Associate Professor in Political Science
Postgraduate Taught Programmes Lead
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Gender; sexuality; queer theory; feminist theory; sex work; body politics; poverty; genealogy
Associate Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
- Supervision of research PhDs in Theoretical Physics

Associate Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
Shakespeare Institute
I am always pleased to hear from prospective students interested in working on Shakespearean and early modern topics, especially drama; playhouse culture; music and literature.
I am supervising or have supervised PhDs on: 1580s drama; Shakespeare and Robert Southwell; early modern dramatic epilogues; objects and memory on the commercial stage, 1580-1642; plague, space and early modern drama; disguise on the early modern stage; crowns in late Elizabethan drama; Shakespeare's representations ...

Associate Professor in Molecular Endocrinology, BBSRC New Investigator Award Holder
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Vicki currently supervises/co-supervises 4 PhD students.
Vicki’s research group welcomes PhD and MRes students in projects relating to:
- Thyroid biology
- Endocrine cancer (thyroid or breast cancer)
- Cell signalling and motility
- Cell trafficking
- Thyroid hormone metabolite analysis
If you are interested in studying any of these research areas, please contact Vicki directly.
Lecturer
School of Mathematics
- Mathematical modelling of the distensible tube wave energy converter
- Strongly non-linear analysis applied to the Navier-Stokes equations

Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dr Smith is currently the co-supervisor for two people undertaking PhD study.

Emeritus Professor of Highway Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
None currently, many previously.