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 of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Birmingham Law School
Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.
Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.
Current PhD students
鈥� Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...
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 in Law
Programme Director, Online LLM in Energy and Environmental Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Nsoh is happy to supervise within the following broad areas:
Innovative approaches such as conservation covenants, payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsets in conservation
Biodiversity and nature conservation law
Property (land) rights, land use, land tenure and livelihoods
Forest ownership and sustainability
Regulation of natural resources
Ecosystem services
Indigenous rights
Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...
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.
Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law
Associate Professor
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice
School of Biosciences
Dr Scott Glaberman's lab is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:
- Leveraging evolutionary principles to understand species sensitivity to chemicals
- Analysing toxicology data within a One Health framework using big data approaches
- Developing nematodes (including C. elegans) as model organisms in toxicology
- Advancing environmental monitoring of contaminants through risk-based approaches
- Reimagining risk assessment practices for environmental contaminants
Investigating evolutionary mechanisms of cancer resistance and ...
Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
* Transitional justice
* Resilience
* War and armed conflict
* Environmental impacts of war
* Posthumanism
Professor of Cerebrovascular, Exercise & Environmental Physiology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Professor Lucas has supervised numerous research Masters and PhD students in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, and Postdoctoral Fellows at UoB. As both a primary and co-supervisor Prof Lucas has 16 PhD and 13 MSc (research) completions, and currently co/supervises 10 PhD and 4 MSc (research) students. The details of his graduate student supervision and the subjects/areas of work are listed below:
Postdoctoral Fellows
2023- Dr Jun ...
Professor of Economics
Director of Research - Department of Economics
Business School
Professor Elliott is available to supervise PhD students across a broad range of topics including international and development economics and environmental and energy economics. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged and students will need to be familar with the manipulation of large data sets and econometric techniques and methods.
Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics
Any area of Environmental or Natural Resource Economics
Research Fellow
(Guest Lecturer)
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Doctoral Research supervision:
Doctoral Researcher: Juliana Antunes de Azevedo
Topic: Urban Heat and Energy Demand: Application of an urban meteorological network
This doctoral research will analyse the temporal and spatial variability 麻豆精选's UHI and its relationship with household energy consumption using high-resolution meteorological data from BUCL, MODIS and Landsat ETM+ data and Energy Consumption data.
Supervisor: Dr. Lee Chapman
Co-supervisor: Dr. Catherine L. Muller
MSc dissertation supervision (various ...
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 ...