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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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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 ...

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

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 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’s attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...

Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
• Law and development (especially in Latin America)
• Law and political economy
• Gender, sexuality, and law
• Gambling regulation
Professor of Health Care Law
Birmingham Law School
Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,
Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research

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.

Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, ‘Reconsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...

Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Birmingham Law School
Professor McAuliffe is currently committed to work 100% of her time on the European Research Council project ‘Law and Language at the European Court of Justice’, but welcomes research proposals for future doctoral and postdoctoral research in the following areas:
The relationship between language and law
Multilingual legal systems
Legal translation/Institutional translation and its impact on law
Dynamics of language/culture/multilingualism in European Union Institutions
Proposals for empirical research projects and ...

Assistant Professor in Law and Innovation
Birmingham Law School
Dr Karanasiou’ s principal research interests are in regulatory design of emerging technologies, particularly looking at the promotion of autonomy in times of rapid automation within and beyond the digital sphere. Argyro welcomes enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in pursuing PhD study under her supervision.

Professor of International Legal Studies
Associate Dean Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ Law School
Birmingham Law School
I am interested in supervising high quality postgraduate research projects in the following areas:
Preferential trade agreements and regional blocs; Comparative regional economic integration law; Eurasian economic integration
EU Neighbourhood Policy and external relations with Eastern Europe and Eurasia; EU-Russia relations
Legal reform; Law and Development; External promotion of rule of law and good governance
Comparative Corporate Governance

Associate Professor
Director of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
Dr Coe welcomes expressions of interest for prospective PhD students in his areas of interest, and the field of Media Law more broadly.

Assistant Professor of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Birmingham Law School
• Private International Law (conflicts of law, conflicts of jurisdiction)
• International Commercial Arbitration
• International Investment Law and Arbitration
• Energy Law
• Law and Technology
• 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 Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡.

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:
• Evaluation of the teaching of communication skills to social work students
• Navigation of safety and risk by people with dementia and their carers
• Older people and carers’ experiences of ‘hospital-at-home’
• 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.