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 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 ...

Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Constitutional law
Administrative law
European law
Comparative law
Current doctoral supervision:
Sophie Boyron is currently supervising three doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
Institutional autonomy and the United Kingdom Supreme Court
External participation in EU decision-making process through the EU established instruments
The jurisprudence of mediation

Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Birmingham Law School
Professor de Londras currently supervises students working on (national, comparative, and international) public law and on topics as diverse as the conceptualisation of security in law, the future of the ECtHR, postcoloniality and nationality law, migrants' rights, and the regulation of abortion information. Her former doctoral students now hold academic posts at leading law schools around the world, in practice, and in regulatory and policy bodies. She has a strong ...

Professor of European Law and Policy
Director, Institute of European Law
Associate Dean 麻豆精选 Law School
Birmingham Law School
European Law
European defence and security integration
Public procurement
Professor Trybus provides doctoral supervision and supervision for other research degrees offered by the University 麻豆精选. Particular areas of expertise and interest include public procurement law and policy generally (not only in relation to the EU) and European law and policy, especially in relation to defence integration.
He has supervised research students undertaking research in the following areas:
Barriers to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assistant Professor
Birmingham Law School
Sandra is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
German Constitutional Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
European Union Law
Potential research students are welcome to contact her by email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting an official application.

Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights
Deputy Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Constituent power
States of emergency
Counter-terrorism
Human rights

Assistant Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Rishika welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥 International and comparative human rights law
鈥 Socio-economic rights
鈥 Decolonization of law and justice
鈥 Critical approaches to human rights

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

Professor of Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Mavronicola is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
torture and inhuman and degrading treatment
the right to life
the interpretation of human rights
LGBT* rights
the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights
the relationship between human dignity and human rights
the intersections between human rights and criminal justice
the relationship of any of the above with legal philosophy

Reader in International Human Rights Law
Birmingham Law School
Gender Equality
International Human Rights Law
Socio-Economic Rights
Enforcement of Rights

Assistant Professor in Resilience Engineering
Turing Fellow
School of Engineering
Dr Xia is interested in supervising postgraduate research projects in the broad area of modelling climate and weather-related risks, such as:
- Numerical simulation of rainfall-related hazards, such as flooding, landslides, and debris flows.
- Computation methods for fluid dynamics and solid-fluid interactions.
- High-performance computing techniques for environmental modelling.
- Applications of machine learning for water engineering problems.
- Big-data analytics for hazard risk management and resilience.
- Modelling impacts of extreme weather events on ...

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Finance
Programme Director, MSc Investments
The Department of Finance
Xiaofei is interested in supervising postgraduate research in the areas of:
- Corporate Finance
- Asset Pricing
- Financial Technology

Chair in Energy and Automotive Engineering
Head of Vehicle and Engine Technology Centre
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Hongming Xu鈥檚 research interests include powertrain system control, fossil fuels and biofuels, fuel systems and mixture preparation, combustion, formation and mitigation of emissions.
Previous PhD students
1. Sathaporn Chuepeng, 鈥淨uantitative Impacat on Engine Performance and Emissions of High Proportion Biodiesel Blends and the Required Engine Control Strategies,鈥 2008 (joint supervision)
2. Jacek Misztal, 鈥淪tudy of Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Combustion and Emission Characteristics in a Multi-Cylinder Engine,鈥 2009
3. ...

Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management
Director of Full-time MBA
Department of Management
Mengyi has supervised doctoral projects on 'HR Practices in start-ups', 'the impact of Intelligent Agents on effective Algorithmic Management', 'Work-life Balance in the UK Higher Education'.
Mengyi is accepting PhD students interested in her research expertise below, using quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods. Students are also welcome to propose their own topics. Please send an email with your CV and research proposal for further discussion.
- Work-life interface, boundary management ...

Research Fellow
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
MSc Health Data Science Student Projects

Lecturer in Electrical Power Networks
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Dr. Xue is interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:
- HVDC & FACTS
- Renewable Energy Integration
- Power System Simulation Technology
- Power System Protection