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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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Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.

Professor of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
• Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
• The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
• Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
• John Austin’s theory of law
• Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law

Associate Professor
Director of LLM Programme (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Hwaidi currently accepts PhD candidates in the following areas:
• Commercial law
• International trade law
• Law and technology
• Contract law/ tort law
• International finance and banking law
• Law and sociology
• Arbitration
• Maritime law
He has supervised PhD students in the areas of the law of blockchain, drafting arbitration clauses in commercial contracts, carriage of goods by sea and privacy 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 ...
Assistant Professor in International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
International Humanitarian Law (the law of armed conflict), International Criminal Law, Transnational Criminal Law (to include cross-border crimes, such as trafficking and piracy)
International law and global legal studies (to include conflicts, transitional justice, international criminal law)

Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Birmingham Law School
• Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
• International Commercial Arbitration
• International Investment Law and Arbitration
• Energy Law
• Law and Technology
• AI and Law

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 Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law

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
• Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...

Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation

Barber Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Contract/Commercial law
Conflict of Laws
Arbitration
Comparative Law
International Trade and Finance
Current doctoral supervision
Professor Enonchong is currently supervising four doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas
Contractual Mechanisms for Reducing Risks in Long Term Oil and Gas Agreements
The Scope of the Liability of Arbitral Institutions towards the Disputing Parties
Judicial Review of International Arbitral Awards
Balancing the demands of procedural fairness and finality in ADR in ...

Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean
Birmingham Law School
Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...

Professor of Biogeography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Jon Sadler’s 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:
• International and comparative human rights law
• Socio-economic rights
• Decolonization of law and justice
• 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 Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.

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 ...