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.
麻豆精选 results for “constitutional law”
Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law
Current doctoral supervision:
Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation
Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...
Professor of European Law and Policy
Director, Institute of European Law
Associate Dean 麻豆精选 Law School
Birmingham Law School
European Law
European defence and security integration
Public procurement
Professor Trybus provides doctoral supervision and supervision for other research degrees offered by the University 麻豆精选. Particular areas of expertise and interest include public procurement law and policy generally (not only in relation to the EU) and European law and policy, especially in relation to defence integration.
He has supervised research students undertaking research in the following areas:
Barriers to ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥� Constitutional theory
鈥� Legal/political philosophy
鈥� Public law
鈥� Human rights law
鈥� Housing law
Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.
Current PhD students:
Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review
Past PhD students:
Sylvester ...
Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥�, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:
The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...
Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Sandra is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
German Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
European Union Law
Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting an official application.
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� International and comparative human rights law
鈥� Socio-economic rights
鈥� Decolonization of law and justice
鈥� Critical approaches to human rights
Reader in Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School
European Criminal Law
European Criminal Justice
Comparative criminal and criminal procedure law
Structural Developments in Criminal Justice
Terrorism 鈥� Phenomena and Responses
Trafficking Human Beings
Current doctoral students:
The Challenges Associated with Identifying Victims of Trafficking Human Beings 鈥� Matthew Davis
The Suitability of Trial by Jury for Trafficking in Persons Cases 鈥� Jack Murphy
Professor of Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy
Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights
Professor of Biogeography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Jon Sadler鈥檚 research focuses on the ecology of two very different environments (riparian and urban) that are subjected to periodic disturbances by either natural and/or anthropogenic processes. The main thrust of the work is to disentangle the often conflicting influences of the landscape ecology of riverscapes and urban landscapes on the ecology of animals that live there. Within these broad areas there are two key linking and cross-cutting themes: gaining ...
Associate Clinical Professor in Rheumatology
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Ilfita welcomes enquiries from prospective students interested in any areas of her research.
Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� International and comparative human rights law
鈥� Socio-economic rights
鈥� Decolonization of law and justice
鈥� Critical approaches to human rights
Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Please do not hesitate to contact Dr Salami if you are passionate about research, and are interested in pursuing a PhD study in any of the aforementioned research areas.
Associate Professor in History of Art
Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies
Gregory Salter's research to date has focused on art from Britain since 1945, focusing particularly on histories of gender, sexuality, migrations, and home / the domestic across this period.
Dr Salter welcomes enquiries from prospective postgraduate students hoping to undertake research relating to his research and teaching interests.
Senior Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies
Department of Modern Languages
I would welcome graduate students wishing to work on any area within modern Hispanic literature and intellectual and cultural history or any other of my research interests.
Find out more - our PhD Hispanic Studies page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.
Reader
School of Biosciences
For a list of possible PhD projects offered by Dr Sanchez-Moran:
www.findaphd.com/search/customlink.asp?inst=birm-Biol&supersurname=Sanchez-Moran
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of Microbiology and Infection
Enea has mentored BSc, PhD students and technicians in the groups where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher.
Deputy Head of College of Social Sciences
Department of Management
- Public sector procurement and supply management
- Public - Private Partnerships
- Contracting and governance in large-scale projects
- Supplier relationship and contract management
Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ivan Sansom is currently undertaking research projects in the following areas:
The Ordovician radiation of fish: a Gondwanan perspective on diversification in fluctuating palaeoenvironments
Cambro-Ordovician fish from North America
The palaeobiology of Ordovician fish from South America
The origins and early evolution of vertebrate biomineralisation
The origin of the gnathostomes
Dr Sansom welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in his areas of interest.
Assistant Professor (Education) - Systems Thinking and Leadership - Birmingham Leadership Institute
College of Social Sciences
Helen is interested in supervising postgraduate students in the areas of Systems Thinking, Leadership, Adult Learning, and Professional Development.
Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages
Department of Modern Languages
I welcome applications of postgraduate students working in many aspects of the Portuguese-speaking world and critical theory, including comparative studies involving other languages and cultures, and am open to co-supervision. My areas of interest include:
- Cultures and intellectual histories of the Portuguese-speaking world (including national, transnational, and comparative approaches)
- Brazilian cultures
- Postcolonial studies
- World literature theories and pedagogies
- Postcolonial memory
- The history and aesthetics of the novel
- Diasporas of the ...