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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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Lecturer in Islamic Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
鈥 Haya Alqasem, 鈥淩ereading the Qur鈥檃n: the reformist hermeneutics of Muhammad Shahrur and 鈥楢dnan al-Rifa鈥檌鈥
鈥 Muhammad Yasir Al-Hanafi, "Imam al-Sanusi on the Ash'ari doctrine of God's transcendence"
鈥 Al Muatasim Al Maawali, "A juristic and codicological study of the narration of la qirad illa bi-'ayn"
鈥 Doaa Baumi, 鈥淢uslim perceptions of biblical lore narratives (7th-14th centuries)鈥
鈥 Rawdah Gawaher, "From duality of revelation to 'by scripture alone': navigating the ...
Research Fellow
Health Services Management Centre
Olamide is interested in supervising doctoral research on topics involving health inequalities, multimorbidity outcomes research, Population health, Evidence synthesis

Honorary Professor of Adaptive Immunology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Kai is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Signals regulating selection of B cells in germinal centres
- Diurnal effects on antibody affinity maturation
- Signals leading to differentiation of plasma cells
- Regulation of B cell migration by chemokines
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Professor Kai-Michael Toellner directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
For ...

School Communications Lead
Reader in Membrane Protein Biology
School of Biosciences
Mike has supervised eight PhD students to completion and has three current PhD students in his group.

Head of Global Engagement & PGA Partnership Lead
Associate Professor in Sport Pedagogy
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Current supervision projects:
- Talent identification in elite Indian sport (MRes)
- A Bourdieu/Goffman exploration of performance self-management in elite golfers (PhD)
- The concept of expertise in elite level street dance (PhD)
- Talent development journeys of elite US female footballers (Prof Doc)
- The professional journey of female PGA Pros (Prof Doc)
- Retention of female golfers in grass roots programmes (Prof Doc)

Lecturer in International Relations
Department of Political Science and International Studies
I invite doctoral research proposals in these areas:
- Chinese foreign and security policy
- Tibet and China’s Nationality Policy
- Asia-Pacific security and politics
- US-China relations
- Sino-Indian relations
- Security studies

Lecturer in Infrastructure Asset Management
Department of Civil Engineering
Digital twins for Roads
Automated condition assessment of infrastructure systems, e.g. pavement
Risk Assessment and Drainage Systems
Risk Assessment and Railway Engineering, Fault-Tree Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation
Risk Assessment and Urban Transport

Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Economic and Social Rights, Reparations, Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, Post-conflict settings

Associate Professor in Mathematics and Statistics
School of Mathematics
Panayiota Touloupou is interested in supervising PhD students in Applied Statistics with particular focus on epidemiology. If you are interested, please email her.

Consultant Cardiologist and Director of Clinical Research
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
- Dr J C Vaile 1997-1999. MD (Awarded with honours) 2001. ‘Human cardiac vagal control in health and cardiovascular disease’
- Dr J Thambyrajah 1999-2001 MD (Awarded with honours) 2002. ‘The role of homocysteine in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in chronic renal failure’
- Ms K Kullar 1998-2000 M Med Sci 2000 ‘Cardiac autonomic function following ablation of re-entrant tachycardias’
- Dr S Chowdhary 1999-2002 PhD 2002 ‘Nitric oxide and human cardiac vagal control’ ...

Professor of Mathematics
School of Mathematics
Andrew Treglown is interested in supervising PhD students in Combinatorics. If you are interested, please email him.

Associate Professor in Physical and Materials Chemistry
School of Chemistry
Teaching Programmes
- Year 2 Computational Chemistry
- Year 3 Physical Chemistry - Techniques for the Solid State
- Year 3 Advanced Computational Chemistry
- Year 4 Physical Chemistry – Molecular Solids