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.

Start your search

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. 

Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ results for “property law”

Dr Sophie Boyron

Dr Sophie Boyron

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














Professor Muireann Quigley

Professor Muireann Quigley

Professor of Law, Medicine, and Technology

Birmingham Law School

Biolaw, property in the body and biomaterials, the use of the behavioural sciences in law and policy, (bio)technologies and law.

Dr Walters Nsoh

Dr Walters Nsoh

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







Dr Gavin Byrne

Dr Gavin Byrne

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:

Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law



Dr Maureen Mapp

Dr Maureen Mapp

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)

Birmingham Law School

Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
• Digital asset regulation
• African customary law in juridical settings
• Gender equality and sentencing
• Decolonising IP law





Dr Chen Zhu

Dr Chen Zhu

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Dr Zhu considers postgraduate research proposals falling into the following areas:

- Historical and Theoretical Aspects of Copyright Law
- Legal Construction of Authorship
- Music Copyright Law
- Software Related Intellectual Property Issues




Professor Joy Porter

Professor Joy Porter

Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ 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 ...

Professor Matt Houlbrook

Professor Matt Houlbrook

Professor of Cultural History

Department of History

I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...

Professor Jon Sadler

Professor Jon Sadler

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 ...

Ilfita Sahbudin

Ilfita Sahbudin

Associate Clinical Professor in Rheumatology

Department of Inflammation and Ageing

Ilfita welcomes enquiries from prospective students interested in any areas of her research.

Dr Rishika Sahgal

Dr Rishika Sahgal

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





Dr Mohammad Reza Salami

Dr Mohammad Reza Salami

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.

Dr Gregory Salter

Dr Gregory Salter

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.

Mr Antonio M. Sánchez

Mr Antonio M. Sánchez

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¡.

Dr Eugenio Sanchez-Moran

Dr Eugenio Sanchez-Moran

Reader

School of Biosciences

For a list of possible PhD projects offered by Dr Sanchez-Moran:

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Enea Sancho-Vaello

Enea Sancho-Vaello

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.

Professor Joe Sanderson

Professor Joe Sanderson

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

 

Dr Ivan Sansom

Dr Ivan Sansom

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.







Helen Sanson

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.

Dr Emanuelle Santos

Dr Emanuelle Santos

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 ...