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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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Emeritus Professor of Immunology
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Professor Wraith has supervised the following PhD students to completion of their PhD. The current position of each student is noted in brackets:
- Anja Wegner. FP7 ITN. Neurokine [Research Fellow, UCL, Royal Free Hospital]
- Ella Shepard. MRC Case studentship [Group leader, Charles River UK]
- Barbara Metzler - Hoffman-La Roche Student [group leader Novartis]
- Richard Smith - Multiple Sclerosis Society Clinical Fellow [CSL, Cardiff]
- George Liu - Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow ...
Professor of English and Irish Literature
Department of English Literature
I welcome applications relating to early modern English and Irish literature, and am especially interested in supervising Masters and PhD projects on women鈥檚 writing (particularly Aphra Behn), Restoration poetry, Irish literature, and environmental humanities.
Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Nigel currently supervises students in urban flood resilience and urban wind power generation. He is keen to supervise students in any of the areas listed under “research interests”.
Assistant Professor in Criminology and Social Policy
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Expertise related to education inequality, childhood and youth, social and public policy, intersectionality, loneliness young people, care, NEET (not in education, employment or training), narrative and participatory methodologies.
Please contact Liam on l.wrigley@bham.ac.uk to discuss supervision opportunities.
Honorary Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering
Open PhD positions in the fields of fuel thermofluids, hydrogen/ammonia combustion, disruptive linear engine development, and AI-assisted hybrid powertrain design.
PhD scholarship is available based on academic merit.
- Find a PhD - Hydrogen Integration for Accelerated Energy Transition
- Find a PhD - Low carbon marine propulsion systems using hydrogen and hydrogen carrying fuels
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Applied Health Sciences
- PhD Supervisor, Department of Theology and Religion
Rebecca is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas of history:
- Psychiatry, mental health, and mental health care
- Burns and unintended injury
- First World War medicine and medical humanitarianism
- Quakers and other nonconformists in medicine and aid work
- Neurosurgery and neurodiversity (particularly epilepsy)
- Complaints and whistleblowing
- Health in prisons and workhouses