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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 International Security
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Professor Wolff is happy to discuss research proposals related to:
Civil war, ethnic conflict and conflict management and settlement, including post-conflict reconstruction and state-building, and international/humanitarian intervention.
Associate Professor in Jewish and Holocaust Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
Elie Wiesel and Jewish religious responses to the Holocaust;
Contemporary Christian-Jewish relations (with a particular interest in the Christianization of the Holocaust, Catholic-Jewish relations, Christian BDS movements and Kairos Palestine);
Representations of the Holocaust (particularly museums, memorials, photographs, film, testimony, gendered responses);
British responses to the Holocaust (with a particular interest in the Kindertransport, Holocaust Memorial Day, the institutionalization of British memory of the Holocaust in museums and memorials, the ...
Assistant Professor
Programme Director for MA in Interpreting with Translation
Department of Modern Languages
I am interested in supervising postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Theatre translation
Chinese Shakespeare
Feminist Translation/Gender and Translation
Religious Translation
Interpreting Pedagogy
Translation Education
Lecturer in Space Weather and Space Systems Engineering
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Dr Wood is always happy to consider inquiries and applications from prospective PhD students interested in space weather.
Prior to approaching Alan, prospective applicants should prepare a short statement of proposed research (no more than two sides of A4, in addition to a CV) indicating the following:
- Identify an area of new work (what is worth pursuing?)
- Show a reasonable understanding of existing work in the field (what is the ...
Professor in Chemical Reaction Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
Topics of interest for supervision include:
- In-situ upgrading of heavy oils using Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) and Catalytic Process In-situ (CAPRI)
- Upgrading of biofuels via hydrodeoxygenation (HDO)
- Production of bio-based drop-in chemicals (5-hydroxymethylfurfural, 5HMF)
- Depolymerisation of renewable plastics such as polylactic acid (PLA)
- Catalysis using bio-nanoparticles
- Reaction-separation engineering including membrane reactors
- Development of adsorbents for carbon dioxide capture
- Modelling carbon capture at pre- and post combustion power plants.
- Catalysis for ...
Associate Professor in American Literature and Culture
Department of English Literature
I welcome research proposals on twentieth-century American visual art and literature.
African American Studies
African American visual culture
Post 1945 American art
Post 1945 American Literature
Contemporary Literature
Reader in Applied Clinical Psychology
Lead of People and Culture for the School of Psychology
School of Psychology
Kate is currently principally supervising a PhD student based at Queen’s University Belfast, who is due to complete in autumn 2018. She is also co-supervising a further PhD student who began at Queen’s University Belfast in September 2017. Kate has funding for PhD projects in areas relevant to the impact of executive functioning and/or emotion regulation on the behaviour and mental health of children and adolescents, due to begin at ...
Professor of Forensic Psychology
Head of Research
School of Psychology
Jessica has supervised more than 100 MSc students to date and 19 ForenPsyD/ClinPsyD students.
Current PhD students:
- Shoshana Gander-Zaucker
- Thomas Klaus
- Manuela Mihauic
- Prachi Shah
Completed PhD Supervision:
- Kari Davies
- Fazeelat Duran (co-supervised with Darren Bishopp)
- Kamonchanok Montasevee (co-supervised with Louise Dixon and Darren Bishopp
- Teresa da Silva
- Mark Kells
- Zoe Stephenson
- Matthew Tonkin
- Shannon Vettor
- Chelsea Slater
- Paul Dawson
PhD Student
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Supervisors: Professor Francis Pope, Professor Sheila Greenfield.
Birmingham Springboard Fellow
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
In his role as a doctoral and post-doctoral researcher Joseph has supervised lab-based projects for BSci and MD students.
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.