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.
麻豆精选 results for “environmental law”
Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Deputy Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ)
Birmingham Law School
Aleksandra Cavoski is happy to supervise postgraduate research students interested in environmental and EU law. Aleksandra also welcomes proposals on the intersection between law and science and law and language, especially in the field of environmental law.
Potential students are invited to contact Dr Cavoski via email to discuss their research proposals prior to submitting official applications.
Current PhD students
鈥� Yunxiang Shi - The effectiveness of Chinese policies on ...
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 in Law
Programme Director, Online LLM in Energy and Environmental Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Nsoh is happy to supervise within the following broad areas:
Innovative approaches such as conservation covenants, payment for ecosystem services and biodiversity offsets in conservation
Biodiversity and nature conservation law
Property (land) rights, land use, land tenure and livelihoods
Forest ownership and sustainability
Regulation of natural resources
Ecosystem services
Indigenous rights
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 ...
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.
Assistant Professor
Deputy Head of Education (LLB)
Birmingham Law School
Dr McGuffin is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the following areas:
Migration
Refugee Law
Associate Professor
Centre for Environmental Research and Justice
School of Biosciences
Dr Scott Glaberman's lab is recruiting postgraduate students to pursue PhD studies in the following research areas:
- Leveraging evolutionary principles to understand species sensitivity to chemicals
- Analysing toxicology data within a One Health framework using big data approaches
- Developing nematodes (including C. elegans) as model organisms in toxicology
- Advancing environmental monitoring of contaminants through risk-based approaches
- Reimagining risk assessment practices for environmental contaminants
Investigating evolutionary mechanisms of cancer resistance and ...
Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Clark is interested in supervising research in the following areas:
* Transitional justice
* Resilience
* War and armed conflict
* Environmental impacts of war
* Posthumanism
Professor of Cerebrovascular, Exercise & Environmental Physiology
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Professor Lucas has supervised numerous research Masters and PhD students in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, and Postdoctoral Fellows at UoB. As both a primary and co-supervisor Prof Lucas has 16 PhD and 13 MSc (research) completions, and currently co/supervises 10 PhD and 4 MSc (research) students. The details of his graduate student supervision and the subjects/areas of work are listed below:
Postdoctoral Fellows
2023- Dr Jun ...
Professor of Economics
Director of Research - Department of Economics
Business School
Professor Elliott is available to supervise PhD students across a broad range of topics including international and development economics and environmental and energy economics. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged and students will need to be familar with the manipulation of large data sets and econometric techniques and methods.
Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics
Any area of Environmental or Natural Resource Economics
Research Fellow
(Guest Lecturer)
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Doctoral Research supervision:
Doctoral Researcher: Juliana Antunes de Azevedo
Topic: Urban Heat and Energy Demand: Application of an urban meteorological network
This doctoral research will analyse the temporal and spatial variability 麻豆精选's UHI and its relationship with household energy consumption using high-resolution meteorological data from BUCL, MODIS and Landsat ETM+ data and Energy Consumption data.
Supervisor: Dr. Lee Chapman
Co-supervisor: Dr. Catherine L. Muller
MSc dissertation supervision (various ...
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