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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Dr Zhong-Nan Wang

Dr Zhong-Nan Wang

Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering

School of Metallurgy and Materials

PhD topics to supervise

  • Hierarchical geometry and turbulence modelling of turbomachinery flows
  • High-fidelity simulation of turbulence-generated noise, particularly for fan and jet noise
  • Data-driven analysis of aerodynamic noise sources
  • Data-driven modelling of turbulent flows

I am accepting PhD students and postdoctoral research fellow all year around. The scholarship could be provided via the following routes:

  • School/College scholarship (Home/EU students)
  • CSC scholarship (Chinese students)

Learn more about international scholarship routes.

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Dr Zixuan Wang

Dr Zixuan Wang

Assistant Professor

School of Pharmacy

Dr Zixuan Wang is seeking highly organised and motivated PhD candidates for research in the area of pharmacoepidemiology, in particular the following area:

  • Medication safety in pregnancy
  • Polypharmacy/Comorbidities
  • Mental Health in women and children
Zixuan is also interested in supervising interdisciplinary research with environmental epidemiology, such as air pollution and climate change.

Professor Aengus Ward

Professor Aengus Ward

Professor in Medieval Iberian Studies

Department of Modern Languages

I welcome applications for postgraduate study on an aspect of medieval Iberia, on history and historiography in particular and also on textual editing. I particularly welcome suggestions for digital editing of medieval Iberian texts. I am especially interested in collaborating with Distance Learning projects.

I currently supervise three PhD projects: Holly Kashin Brown鈥檚 digital edition and study of three texts written by women authors in the late Middle Ages (with ...

Dr Derek Ward

Dr Derek Ward

Reader in Public Health and Medical Education

Department of Applied Health Sciences

Derek is available to supervise postgraduate students in any area related to his research or professional interests.

Dr Douglas Ward

Dr Douglas Ward

Senior Research Fellow
Bladder Cancer Research Centre (BCRC) Theme Lead for Biomarkers & Proteomics

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Currently 5 lab based PhD students.

Dr Mark Ward

Dr Mark Ward

Associate Professor
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor

School of Metallurgy and Materials

Open:

  • Experimenting in, modelling, understanding and developing the production of high quality titanium aluminide alloys by Plasma melting

Current:

  • Measuring the phase proportions in steel by image analysis
  • Factors controlling the quality of nickel alloys produced by Durville casting
  • Linear friction welding of aerospace alloys
  • Segregation and quality during ESR of steels
  • Analysis of EBSD orientation maps of rail steel

Dr Matthew Ward

Dr Matthew Ward

Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Department of English Literature

I welcome enquiries in the following areas: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry, Romanticism, especially Lord Byron, Coleridge, Keats, the Shelleys, and the Wordsworths; post-Romantic poetry; literary influence and inheritance, and allusion and echo; emotions, affect, and the senses; laughter and the laughable; environmental studies and nature writing.

Dr Nils Warnken

Dr Nils Warnken

Associate Professor in Materials Modelling

School of Metallurgy and Materials

If you are interested in starting a PhD, talk to me.

I supervise - presently and in the past - projects in the fields of:

  • Phase field modelling of
    • solidification
    • oxidation
  • Directional solidification of alloys
  • Microstructure formation during solidification of superalloys
  • Modelling of reactions between alloys and environment
  • Thermodynamic modelling (CALPHAD)
  • Effect of fluid flow on alloy solidification

If you are interested in starting a PhD in any of these ...

Dr Ben Warwick

Dr Ben Warwick

Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy

Birmingham Law School

Ben Warwick is interested in supervising research in the following areas:

Economic and social rights
International human rights and resources
Rights enforcement



Dr Emma Watkins

Dr Emma Watkins

Associate Professor in Criminology

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

SEDA Accredited: Supervising Doctoral Research

Emma would be interested in supervising PhD theses related to Historical Criminology and Crime History in the following areas:

  • Institutional history
  • The history of the criminal justice system
  • Colonial history
  • Juvenile offending and justice
  • Nineteenth-century crime and punishment
  • Other related topics

Dr Alan Watson

Reader in Particle Physics

School of Physics and Astronomy

  • Alan has supervised more than 15 PhDs in Particle Physics, between the OPAL, BaBar and ATLAS experiments.

 

Professor Glyn Watson

Professor Glyn Watson

Senior Lecturer

Department of Management

Contracts and Incentives
Conflict and Conflict Resolution 
Public Sector Purchasing 
Management Theory