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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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Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.

Associate Professor in Law (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
I am looking to supervise doctoral candidates in areas of criminal evidence, ethics (values) and legal education/mentoring in pedagogical curricula designs that enhances student learning and teacher reflection.

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...

Professor of Translator Education
Head of School of Language, Culture, Art History and Music
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Department of Modern Languages
I have wide-ranging interests across the field of Translation Studies. My current PhD students are working in translation competence, translation industry requirements, ego-targeting in tourism translation, measurement of translator style using computational methods, the use of AI in legal translation and the use and translation of evaluative adjectives in tourism translation.

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

Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law
Current doctoral supervision:
Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation

Practitioner Tutor
School of Education
She has previously supervised the following doctoral level work: the views of men in primary school teaching; male mental health; universal design for learning in SEND; the lived experience of a visually impaired lecturer; the lived experience of a care leaver with SEND; careers advice for individuals with SEND.

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Birmingham Law School
Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
• Digital asset regulation
• African customary law in juridical settings
• Gender equality and sentencing
• Decolonising IP law
Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution
Co-Deputy Head of Education (Education Review)
Birmingham Law School
dispute resolution, private international law
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Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement
Director of IRiS
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Nando welcomes proposals for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the following areas:
- Forced displacement and globalisation
- Sociology of statelessness
- Dual citizenship and the experiences of dual citizens
- The intersection between migration, rights and citizenship
- Everyday experiences of superdiversity
- Neoliberalism, globalisation and governance of human mobility
- The politics of refugee voices and silences
- Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism
- Undocumented migrants and experiences of ‘illegality’ through generations
- Child and family migration
- Transnationalism and ...

Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law

Honorary Professor of Quaker Studies
Director, Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
The Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies has around 20 MA by Research/ PhD students and is the leading centre worldwide in research into Quakerism. There is a staff team of 14 supervisors and we can supervise in most areas of Quaker studies: history, theology, philosophy, sociology, literary studies and Quaker values in education.
My own research interests lie particularly in the sociology of religion and the sociology of sects. For ...

Honorary Associate Professor
International Development Department
Civil society, civic space, global patterns in socio-economic development, humanitarian interventions

Head of Research of the School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology
School of Infection, Inflammation and Immunology
Professor Van Schaik is always interested in hearing from potential PhD students who want to apply genomic and metagenomic approaches to study the emergence of drug-resistance in opportunistic pathogens.
You can contact Willem by email.

Assistant Professor
Director of Postgraduate Programmes
School of Psychology
Wieske is currently working with Claudia Bonmassar (phd-student) at the Center for Mind/ Brain Sciences at the University of Trento.
Wieske is always interested in talking to potential students (masters or phds) and postdoctoral fellows. Please do not hesitate to contact her via w.vanzoest@bham.ac.uk.
For more information see https://sites.google.com/site/wieskevanzoest

Professor of Marketing and Consumption
Department of Marketing
- Four Successful PhD Supervisions
- Served on Supervisory Committees for Several PhD Students

Professor of Astrophysics
Director, Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
School of Physics and Astronomy
PhD projects in compact objects, gravitational wave sources and observations.
Visit http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/phd/index.php for full details.

Senior Lecturer in Biological Psychology
Director of Graduate Research, College of Life and Environmental Sciences
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Jet currently supervises nine postgraduate research students exploring the links between behaviour and physical and psychological health in different populations (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, older adults, young people). Her PhD students have won many prestigious awards, such as young investigator awards at conferences (American Psychosomatic Society), award for best abstract in clinical science (European League against Rheumatism), best publication award (Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust), winner of the poster award of ...

Senior Research Fellow
The Department of Strategy and International Business
- Graduate teaching assistant, Kings College London (2013-17)
- PG student teaching and project supervision, BITS-Pilani, Goa campus, 2009-2012

Professor of Metabolomics
Director of Phenome Centre Birmingham
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
School of Biosciences
For a list of possible PhD projects offered by Professor Viant www.findaphd.com/search/customlink.asp?inst=birm-Biol&supersurname=Viant

Professor of Metabolomics
Director of Phenome Centre Birmingham
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
School of Biosciences
For a list of possible PhD projects offered by Professor Viant www.findaphd.com/search/customlink.asp?inst=birm-Biol&supersurname=Viant

Associate Professor in International Relations
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Dr Vieira’s research interests include:
South-South relations/institutions
The reform of global governance structures
The global politics of HIV/AIDS and climate change
International relations theory
International security
Foreign policy of emerging states
Regional politics in South America and Southern Africa

Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology
School of Psychology
Darrelle supervises projects on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate and the MRes in Clinical Psychology. She is interested in projects on/using:
- Identity and relationships in the context of brain injury.
- Experiences of psychological interventions.
- Qualitative methodologies particularly interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) and metasynthesis of qualitative research.

Assistant Professor in Psychology
School of Psychology
Dr Katia Vione welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students interested in projects on psychological processes involved in clinical decision-making, pedagogical research on critical thinking skills, and psychometrics.