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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麻豆精选 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. 

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Dr Richard Todd

Dr Richard Todd

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 ...



Dr Olamide Todowede

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

Professor Kai-Michael Toellner

Professor Kai-Michael Toellner

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.

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Dr Michael Tomlinson

Dr Michael Tomlinson

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.

Dr Martin Toms

Dr Martin Toms

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)

 

Dr Tsering Topgyal

Dr Tsering Topgyal

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

Dr Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan

Dr Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan

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



Dr Felix E Torres

Dr Felix E Torres

Assistant Professor

Birmingham Law School

Economic and Social Rights, Reparations, Transitional Justice, Distributive Justice, Post-conflict settings

Dr Panayiota Touloupou

Dr Panayiota Touloupou

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.

Professor Jon Townend

Professor Jon Townend

Consultant Cardiologist and Director of Clinical Research

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences

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

Professor Andrew Treglown

Professor Andrew Treglown

Professor of Mathematics

School of Mathematics

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

 

 

Dr Maryjane Tremayne

Dr Maryjane Tremayne

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