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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Emeritus Professor of Inclusion and Diversity
School of Education
Current students
Adel Alanazi, Inclusive education in Saudi Arabia
Layla Alshareef, Constructions of ‘dyslexia’ in KSA
Audrey Halpin, Correlates of inclusion
Jesvir Mahil, Ofsted and creativity
Raj Pahill, Positive psychology and education
Sarah Wall, Effective schools
Former students (University 麻豆精选)
Martha Cass, Early stressors in childhood
Graeme Martin, Chaos theory and education
Claire Sutton, Emotions and the experience of teaching
Sarah Clemerson, ESRC 1+3 scholarship. Autism and space
Clare Rawdin, Well-being and the curriculum
Michael Nugent, ...
Associate Professor of Cardiology and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
- Supervision of BSc Biomedical Sciences students
- Supervision of MD/PhD students
- Supervision of Masters students
Professor of Biochemical Engineering
Director of Biochemical Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
Current projects
- Process Analytical Technology informing the manufacture and formulation of biotherapeutic protein products (EngD – EPSRC/Pall Life Sciences)
- New magnetic particle based affinity separation systems (self-funded)
- Multifunctional chromatography materials: New designs and applications (EPRSC CDT in the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies)
- New manufacturing technology for E. coli expressed recombinant mini‐antibodies (with T.W. Overton) (BBSRC/MIBTP)
- Next generation’ chromatographic media for biopharmaceuticals manufacturing (EPRSC CDT in ...
Lecturer
Department of Social Work and Social Care
Siân has supervised postgraduate dissertations for the MA Social Work, MA Post-Qualifying Social Work, and MRes Gender and Sexuality programmes in the following topic areas:
- Migration, including unaccompanied asylum seeking children and No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)
- Sexual and gender-based violence, including child sexual exploitation and domestic abuse
- Child welfare and protection, including looked after children, fostering and adoption, and child protection systems
- Sex work, including legal frameworks
Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Sciences
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Current PhD Students
- Evie Garlick – ‘Using super resolution microscopy to investigate the role of actin in adenosine receptor organisation’. (COMPARE funded - writing up)
- Tom O’Sullivan – ‘An investigation into invaginated membrane system development, dynamics and actin regulation throughout megakaryopoiesis’ (MRC funded - writing up)
- Helena Brown – ‘The role of platelet receptors in inflammatory bleeding’ (EU ITN funded – writing up)
- Syeeda Kabir – ‘Investigating regulatory pathways for ...
Associate Professor in Modern History
Department of History
I am happy to supervise doctoral researchers on topics relating to my research specialisms. Feel free to get in touch.
Senior Lecturer
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Lauren Thomas-Seale supervises PhDs in the following areas:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Additive Manufacture
- Design
- Elastography
Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Dean is interested in supervising postgraduate students in mental health research, mixed methods design, paediatric burns, and hearing research. Please contact Dean directly if you would like to discuss applying for a PhD. Dean’s current PhD students include:
- Sue Blackwell - Parastomal hernia and shared decision making
Emeritus Honorary Professor of Public Health Nutrition and Exercise
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Janice has supervised 20 doctoral researchers and more than 70 MSc students to completion. As Professor Thompson is retired, she is no longer taking on any PhD students.
Associate Professor in Applied Statistics
School of Social Policy and Society
Paul is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in any of the following areas:
- Applied statistics: longitudinal modelling, randomised controlled trial design in social care or special education.
- Interdisciplinary and applied health or social care research, using quantitative methods
Please do feel free to get in contact, with a research proposal and CV, if you are interested in working with Paul to complete your PhD research.
Completed Students:
Wenyuan Liu (Warwick): ...
Reader in Applied Corpus Linguistics
Director, Centre for Corpus Research
Department of Linguistics and Communication
Paul Thompson is interested in supervising postgraduate research students in the areas of:
corpus linguistics
applications of corpus-based approaches to language description, particularly in education
applications of IT in language teaching
Associate Professor
School of Psychology
Please email if you are interested in pursuing research (at any level) in multimodal communication, sign language research, linguistics, psycholinguistics or language and cognition.