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.
麻豆精选 results for “international law”
Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.
Professor of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
鈥� Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
鈥� The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
鈥� Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
鈥� John Austin鈥檚 theory of law
鈥� Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law
Associate Professor
Director of LLM Programme (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Hwaidi currently accepts PhD candidates in the following areas:
鈥� Commercial law
鈥� International trade law
鈥� Law and technology
鈥� Contract law/ tort law
鈥� International finance and banking law
鈥� Law and sociology
鈥� Arbitration
鈥� Maritime law
He has supervised PhD students in the areas of the law of blockchain, drafting arbitration clauses in commercial contracts, carriage of goods by sea and privacy law.
Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Chris has supervised PhDs on many legal topics, including: Constitutional Reform in Kenya; Constitutional Reform in Egypt; the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in National Constitutional Law in South America; the Global Right to Food; the History of International Criminal Law; Military Law and Legal Reform in China; Constitutional Law and Populism in Poland and Brazil; Constitutional Reform in Scotland; Constitutional Reform in Turkey; Constitutional Reform in ...
Assistant Professor in International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
International Humanitarian Law (the law of armed conflict), International Criminal Law, Transnational Criminal Law (to include cross-border crimes, such as trafficking and piracy)
International law and global legal studies (to include conflicts, transitional justice, international criminal law)
Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Birmingham Law School
鈥� Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
鈥� International Commercial Arbitration
鈥� International Investment Law and Arbitration
鈥� Energy Law
鈥� Law and Technology
鈥� AI and Law
Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...
Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law
Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Birmingham Law School
Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.
Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.
Current PhD students
鈥� Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...
Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
鈥� Law and development (especially in Latin America)
鈥� Law and political economy
鈥� Gender, sexuality, and law
鈥� Gambling regulation
Barber Professor of Law
Birmingham Law School
Contract/Commercial law
Conflict of Laws
Arbitration
Comparative Law
International Trade and Finance
Current doctoral supervision
Professor Enonchong is currently supervising four doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas
Contractual Mechanisms for Reducing Risks in Long Term Oil and Gas Agreements
The Scope of the Liability of Arbitral Institutions towards the Disputing Parties
Judicial Review of International Arbitral Awards
Balancing the demands of procedural fairness and finality in ADR in ...
Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean
Birmingham Law School
Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Birmingham Law School
鈥� Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
鈥� International Commercial Arbitration
鈥� International Investment Law and Arbitration
鈥� Energy Law
鈥� Law and Technology
鈥� AI and Law
Honorary Professor of Medicine
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
I currently do not accept new PhD students. I have 4 completed PhD students and 7 completed Master students. I currently have 4 PhD students under my supervision.
Head of the Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor of Test Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Yemisi is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Methodology for the evaluation of medical tests
- Methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Primary studies and systematic reviews of tests
If you are interested in doctoral research in or related to these areas, please contact Yemisi using the contact details above.
Professor in Financial Economics
The Department of Economics
Postgraduate Supervision
- Zixi Guo (2023 - present)
- Mohammad Aldoub (2023 - present)
- Fei Ge (2023 - present)
- Xinyi Wang (2023 - present)
- Zhenyi Zhai (2022 – present)
- Zhuangchen Wu (2021 – present)
Doctoral Research
- Abdullah F. AlSabah (2022), “Essays on Information Arrival and Asset Prices”, placement: Capital Market Authority of Kuwait
- Linh Vi (2022), “Essays on Employment and Wages in Online Labour Markets”, placement: Aston University
- Ge Gao (2022), “Essays ...
Professor of Company Law and Company Law in Context
Birmingham Law School
I am available to supervise in the following areas. Business History, corporate law theory, critical approaches to shareholder rights and shareholder centred governance, the socio-economic and political impact of corporate activities, growth, degrowth and corporate sustainability, the visual arts and corporations, corporations and labour, corporations and social progress, business human rights, feminism, gender and corporations and the political economy of companies.
Honorary Clinical Lecturer
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
This is a new skill Jennifer shall develop during her Clinical Lectureship.
Director, Research Unit in Asian Christianity
Department of Theology and Religion
- Chinese Christianity
- East Asian theologies & spirituality
- Religion and politics in East Asia
- Faith and culture
Find out more - our PhD Theology and Religion page has information about doctoral research at the University 麻豆精选.
Assistant Professor
School of Mathematics
Dr Junqi Tang is an experienced PhD supervisor and is currently accepting PhD students. Please email him with your CV if you are interested in working with him.
Assistant Professor in Modern Languages
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Department of Modern Languages
I welcome enquiries from prospective students studying in the following areas:
- Using technology to facilitate students’ learning of a foreign language;
- Investigating student experiences of learning L2 Chinese;
- Teaching Mandarin Chinese in a business context.
Assistant Professor
School of Metallurgy and Materials
Dr Tang currently co-supervises two PhD students and is looking for PhD candidates in the following areas.
- Metal additive manufacturing and related subjects
- Multi-scale experimental mechanics in extreme environment (including hydrogen)
- Design and development of new structural alloys
- Interdisciplinary research involving one or more areas above.
Associate Professor of Social Work
Department of Social Work and Social Care
Denise Tanner's current doctoral supervision covers the following areas:
鈥� Evaluation of the teaching of communication skills to social work students
鈥� Navigation of safety and risk by people with dementia and their carers
鈥� Older people and carers鈥� experiences of 鈥榟ospital-at-home鈥�
鈥� New relationships in permanent care settings from the perspective of the non-
care dwelling spouse/partner.
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Silvana is happy to supervise projects at the intersections between Criminal Law, Gender, and Human Rights. In particular, projects that aim to develop:
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of prisons and the criminal legal system.
Anticolonial and/or feminist critiques of mainstream human rights law and advocacy.
New knowledge on the links between penal violence and social reproduction.
New knowledge on feminist and anti-carceral social movements.