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 “legal theory”

Professor Chris Thornhill

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 ...

Dr Lydia Morgan

Dr Lydia Morgan

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 Rosie Harding

Professor Rosie Harding

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 ...


Professor M谩ir茅ad Enright

Professor M谩ir茅ad Enright

Professor of Feminist Legal Studies
Head of Research Impact

Birmingham Law School

I am willing to supervise research students in the following areas:

Gender, law and Religion, particularly from feminist or critical legal perspectives.
Politics of reproductive justice.
'Historical' institutional abuse.
Law, activism and social movements.
I am happy to answer email queries from prospective students before submission of an official proposal.





Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

Professor Mohammad (Shahab) Shahabuddin

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 Alexander Orakhelashvili

Professor Alexander Orakhelashvili

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






Dr Alex Latham-Gambi

Dr Alex Latham-Gambi

Assistant Professor

Birmingham Law School

Alex is happy to supervise PhD students in any of his areas of research expertise, including:
鈥 Constitutional theory
鈥 Legal/political philosophy
鈥 Public law
鈥 Human rights law
鈥 Housing law

Potential students are invited to get in touch via e-mail to discuss their preliminary research proposals.

Current PhD students:

Yossra Hamouda, Denshway, Reparations and Decolonizing International Law
Yuan Feng, Comparative Study of Constitutional Review

Past PhD students:

Sylvester ...















Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani

Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani

Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics

Department of Theology and Religion

I welcome proposals across Islamic Studies, especially in Islamic law and ethics, that engage the textual resources of the Islamic intellectual traditions.

Current doctoral supervision

The phenomena of Maddhab change amongst Sunni legal schools in the Mamluk period
Spiritual striving in British Muslim Shia communities
Previous doctoral supervision
The Origins of Im膩m墨 岣d墨th: A Bio-bibliographical Cross-reference Analysis
Taqi al-Din al-Subki on ijtihad and the role of the Qur鈥檃n in his ...







Professor Karen McAuliffe

Professor Karen McAuliffe

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 鈥楲aw and Language at the European Court of Justice鈥, 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 ...





Dr Shaimaa Abdelkarim

Dr Shaimaa Abdelkarim

Assistant Professor in Law (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)

Birmingham Law School

Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥 Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥 Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥 Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥 Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥 Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥 Law and Abolitionist Praxis







Dr Gavin Byrne

Dr Gavin Byrne

Associate Professor

Birmingham Law School

Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:

Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law



Professor Atina Krajewska

Professor Atina Krajewska

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



Dr Willem van Eekelen

Dr Willem van Eekelen

Honorary Associate Professor

International Development Department

Civil society, civic space, global patterns in socio-economic development, humanitarian interventions

Professor Willem van Schaik

Professor Willem van Schaik

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. 

Dr. Wieske van Zoest

Dr. Wieske van Zoest

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 Rohit Varman

Professor Rohit Varman

Professor of Marketing and Consumption

Department of Marketing

  • Four Successful PhD Supervisions
  • Served on Supervisory Committees for Several PhD Students

Professor Alberto Vecchio

Professor Alberto Vecchio

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.

Professor Jet Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Professor Jet Veldhuijzen van Zanten

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 ...

Santhilata Venkata

Santhilata Venkata

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 Mark Viant

Professor Mark 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

Professor Mark Viant

Professor Mark 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

Dr Marco Vieira

Dr Marco Vieira

Associate Professor in International Relations

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Dr Vieira鈥檚 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







Dr Darrelle Villa

Dr Darrelle Villa

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.

Dr Katia Vione

Dr Katia Vione

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.