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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 Deaf Education
School of Education
Emmanouela supervises students with topics focused on:
- Education of deaf and hearing impaired children
- Literacy skills of deaf children and young people
- socioemotional development of deaf children and young people.
She currently supervises a number of students including:
Hadeel Alharbi
Catherine Walker - Do young people with mild / moderate hearing loss have the social and emotional skills to enable them to lead confident and independent lives beyond school?

Emeritus Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science and International Studies
- Economic policymaking in the United Kingdom
- The role of the Treasury
- The role and power of the Bank of England
- Comparative economic policy making
- Comparative Central Banks
- British Politics in general (ie role of PM, Parliament, devolution)
- The political economy of the G7
- Fiscal policymaking

Honorary Professor
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Primary Supervision
Completed
- PhD Pundir J (2016-2022) Interventions to improve fertility outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
- PhD A Hamilton (2013-2019) Views of women and healthcare professionals on lifestyle interventions in pregnancy
- PhD B Wattar - (2013-2017) - Improving health outcomes for pregnant women with metabolic risk factors
- PhD J Allotey (2014-2018) Improving the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes
- PhD E Rogozinska (2014-2017) Diet and physical activity based interventions for antenatal ...

Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics
Dr Jyoti Thanvi has been involved in supervising PG and PhD students in the areas of:
- Distribution Theory
- Biostatistics
- Applied statistics
- Actuarial Statistics

Associate Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
Surface and Nano Science.

Lecturer
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
David is always looking for new Ph.D. students interested in the ionosphere, data assimilation, and radio propagation.
Interested students should send David a complete CV and a one-page (single sided) statement on their research interests.

Senior Lecturer in Classics
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I welcome research proposals on women’s writing and classical reception, and on any aspect of Roman republican or Augustan poetry.
Current supervision:
Elizabeth Cook’s Achilles as a model for feminist reception
Ali Smith, gender, and the reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Research topics I have supervised in the past include:
Tacitus’ Agricola and the politics of fama
Romulus and Numa in Ovid’s Fasti
Speech and Silence in Ovid’s Heroides
Postmodernism and ...

Associate Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Dr Marios Theofanous's main research interests include experimental and numerical research of structural steel, stainless steel and high strength steel structures at cross-sectional, member and system level. Other research interests include FRP-strengthened concrete structures, structural fire engineering and semi-rigid connections.
Marios is interested in supervising postgraduate students in the following research fields:
Structural fire engineering
Robustness of stainless steel and high strength steel structures
Deformation based design procedures for seismic ...

Professor in Respiratory Medicine
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
- Previously had 4 MD students and 1 PhD student successfully complete
- Currently has 1 MD student and 4 PhD students

125th Anniversary Chair - Professor of Health Behaviour Change
Professor Thøgersen-Ntoumani is interested in supervising any projects related to motivation and behaviour change in the fields of health (primarily physical activity and weight management), body image and climate adaptation/mitigation.

Professor of Molecular Genetics
School of Biosciences
For a list of possible PhD projects offered by Prof Thomas www.findaphd.com/search/customlink.asp?inst=birm-Biol&supersurname=Thomas

Professor of Epidemiology and Research Methods
Director, NIHR Research Support Service National Collaborative
Director NIHR Research Support Service Birmingham Hub and partners Keele, and Warwick
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor Thomas is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following general areas:
- Determinants of cardiometabolic disease, particularly atrial fibrillation, morbidity and mortality.
- Approaches to attenuate cardiometabolic disease and associated risk factors and improve care pathways for their management.
- Health consequences of air pollution.
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Thomas on the contact details above or through FindAPhD.com.
Professor Thomas has ...