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.
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Professor in Modern History
Department of History
Listed below are the fields in which Sabine Lee is able to offer supervision of research postgraduates.
Children Born of War; Children and War
History of UN Peacekeeping
Conflict-related gender-based violence
Social consequences of war and conflict
20th century British history
20th century international relations
19th and 20th century history of science (particularly mathematics and physics)
20th German history
Professor of Cultural History
Department of History
I offer PhD supervision across the cultural history of Britain in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in areas relating to my own research interests: histories of gender and sexuality, culture and self-fashioning, urban history, and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. Feel free to get in touch if you鈥檙e interested in discussing potential projects. I'm currently or have recently co-supervised projects including women's sexual autonomy and desire ...
Professor of Central and Eastern European History
Department of History
I am currently first supervisor for the following students: Jonathan Conde, Graham Cox, Jared Feuerstein, Owen Grey and Marta Starostina.
I am happy to supervise doctoral work in the following areas: history of modern Eastern Europe, history of nationalism, interwar history, history of the First and Second World War.
Associate Professor in International History
Department of History
Steve Morewood's research interests include the military, political and strategic history of the modern East Mediterranean region (late19th and 20th centuries). He has supervised several PhDs to a successful conclusion with some students going on to publish their dissertations in book form. Topics have included the Greek press during the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22, Turkey and the Straits in the early Cold War period and the Greek-Cypriot perspective in the ...
Assistant Professor in British History
Director, Centre for Midlands History and Cultures
Department of History
I am happy to supervise doctoral researchers on topics relating to my research specialisms, just get in touch. I would be particularly keen to hear from students who are interested in working on: memory and the commemoration of conflict; family and local memory; family history; the social history of archives; the social and cultural history of the Midlands, especially during the early modern period.
Lecturer in Modern History
Department of History
I currently supervise or co-supervise a number of MA and PhD students. Subjects in which I am interested include:
The modern history of drugs, especially with a focus on Britain.
The modern history of drugs and warfare.
The history, theory and practice of air power, particularly during the era of total war.
The military history of the two World Wars, especially from a British perspective.
Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History
Department of History
I would be delighted to hear from students intending to work on any aspect of Modern German history, as well as those with thematic interests in the histories of religion, war and memory in any European context since 1800.
Associate Professor in International Politics
Department of Political Science and International Studies
I would welcome PhD applications in areas related to my research interests below, and I would encourage potential supervisees to get in touch:
- international conflict, conflict management and resolution
- international organisations, the European Union
- state recognition
- statehood, sovereignty
- secession
- unrecognised/ de facto states
Associate Professor in Ancient History
Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
I welcome proposals for supervision in any aspect of Roman History, especially political aspects of the Roman Republic and Early Principate, Imperial ideology, International Relations and diplomacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to history and material culture.
Postgraduate research projects I have supervised or am currently supervising include:
Ben Salisbury, 鈥楤efore Public Opinion: The Role of Tribunes of the Plebs in Creating, Manipulating, and Responding to Popular Sentiment in the Late Roman ...
Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History
University 麻豆精选 125th Anniversary Chair
Principal Investigator, Treatied Spaces Research Group
Department of History
Professor Porter has a strong track record helping ECR and PGR colleagues advance their careers. She has supported a significant number to achieve positions in U.K. and U.S. Universities. She has also supported students and ECRs to attract fellowships, travel awards and other funding from the AHRC, Fulbright US-UK, government bodies and North American and European universities.
She welcomes PGR enquiries linked to:
Global Indigenous Environmental History, Culture and Literature ...
Associate Professor in the History of Warfare and Conflict
Department of History
I would welcome PhD proposals on the following topics: British colonial warfare (including war during the era of decolonisation), Counterinsurgency, and the British army 1815-1945.
Senior Lecturer in colonial and post-colonial studies
Department of Modern Languages
I am happy to offer postgraduate research supervision in the following fields:
Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
British and French imperial history
Decolonisation and the End of Empire
Colonial memory
Nineteenth and Twentieth French History
I supervise or co-supervises MA dissertation students in the above mentioned areas, and perform the role of PhD supervisor for several PhD theses:
Dunya Ismael (as lead supervisor): 鈥楻etro-cultural translation: neutralising cultural capital accumulation and power ...
Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature
Department of English Literature
My work for the foreseeable future will be concerned with projects on the lives and writings of Wyndham Lewis and George Orwell. As a result, I鈥檓 currently best placed to supervise postgraduate research on these figures and their contexts/contemporaries.
Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology
School of Psychology
Current ClinPsyD research projects:
- Exploring pica and its correlates in people with intellectual disability, what separates it from other behaviours that challenge? (co-supervised by Professor Caroline Richards)
- An evaluation of an identity based post-diagnosis therapeutic group for autistic young people (co-supervised by Dr Charlie Bamford)
Reader in Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School
European Criminal Law
European Criminal Justice
Comparative criminal and criminal procedure law
Structural Developments in Criminal Justice
Terrorism 鈥� Phenomena and Responses
Trafficking Human Beings
Current doctoral students:
The Challenges Associated with Identifying Victims of Trafficking Human Beings 鈥� Matthew Davis
The Suitability of Trial by Jury for Trafficking in Persons Cases 鈥� Jack Murphy
Lecturer in Exercise Metabolism
Academic Director, Cellular Health and Metabolism Facility
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
As of September 2021, Alex supervises 2 PhD students (funded by BBSRC and Indonesian Endowment Fund for Education) and 2 MSc by Research students.
Alex welcomes applications from potential PhD or MSc by research students on topics relating to his research interests. Please see some current PhD projects available below:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/evaluating-the-effect-of-exercise-on-immune-driven-disease-activity-in-individuals-with-type-1-diabetes/?p133757
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/investigating-the-utility-of-exercise-to-enhance-the-yield-of-haemopoietic-stem-and-progenitor-cells-in-peripheral-blood/?p133759
Associate Professor of French
Department of Modern Languages
I currently co-supervise doctoral researchers working on early modern, modern and contemporary French writing, connections between literature and visual art, and Caribbean and African literature. I would be very glad to hear from students wishing to pursue Masters or doctoral research in the following areas:
modern and contemporary poetry
poetry and translation
comparative topics in modern literature
poetic form and political engagement
French writers and art
word-image interactions.
I also ...
Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
Extensive experience in supervising PhD and MPhil students, as well as Undergraduate student research projects as well.
Associate Professor of Transformative Technologies, Innovation and Global Affairs
School of Government
Dr. Wählisch is happy to discuss research proposals related to PeaceTech and digital diplomacy (AI, VR/XR), Science Diplomacy, GovTech and digital transformation, and futures thinking in public affairs.
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Consultant Neurologist
Director 麻豆精选 Headache Centre
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Dr Wakerley is currently co-supervising a PhD student looking at migraine in pregnancy.
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Communication
Dr Walker is interested in supervising doctoral research in the areas of:
Collocation and other phraseological aspects of English
The pedagogic application of corpora
Vocabulary and its teaching
Assistant Professor in Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy
Dr Walker is interested in supervising projects in the following areas:
- Knowledge exchange and capacity building for pharmacy practice and research.
- Health and medicines inequity.
- Pharmacovigilance
- Antimicrobial resistance
Professor in Regenerative Medicine
Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Ivan supervises PhD students working on stem cell culture processes and exosome production.
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.