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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Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Sciences
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Current and previous PhD Students
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Sian-Marie O’Brien
Defended thesis 2019 – "Regulation of intracellular sodium in the atria"
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Dannie Fobian
Defended thesis 2020 – "Translating the effect of rate control therapy in atrial fibrillation: from cellular response to cardiac function"
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Chris O’Shea
Defended thesis 2020 – "Developing a high-resolution optical mapping setup with integrated high-throughput analysis capabilites for dissecting molecular mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias"
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Simon Wells
Defended thesis 2020 ...
Professor of Law and Society
Deputy Dean
Birmingham Law School
Professor Harding is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in any of the following areas:
- Mental Capacity and Disability Law, especially research involving questions of everyday decision-making, dementia, intellectual disability, powers of attorney, advance directives and end of life decision making.
- Older persons rights, especially research focused on older person鈥檚 attitudes to human rights, and the arguments for and against a new international convention on the rights of ...
Associate Professor in Law
Birmingham Law School
Dr Moreton is interested in supervising Doctoral Students in the areas of healthcare law, particularly decision-making, child and adolescent healthcare, pregnancy and reproduction, and palliative care. She also has interests in criminal law relating to sexual offences, and intersections with medical law. Topics utilising feminist and care ethics are also of interest.
Previously supervised to completion:
- Wendy Suffield, 鈥楻econsidering the Moral Status of the pre-conscious fetus: a multi-criterial, multi-level ...
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Charlotte is happy to supervise doctoral students for projects focusing on family law, especially those concerning adult relationships.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Exams and Senior Tutor)
Birmingham Law School
Maureen is interested in supervising students on any of the following areas:
鈥� Digital asset regulation
鈥� African customary law in juridical settings
鈥� Gender equality and sentencing
鈥� Decolonising IP law
Professor of Feminist Legal Studies
Head of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
I am willing to supervise research students in the following areas:
Gender, law and Religion, particularly from feminist or critical legal perspectives.
Politics of reproductive justice.
'Historical' institutional abuse.
Law, activism and social movements.
I am happy to answer email queries from prospective students before submission of an official proposal.
Chair in Legal Education and Research
Birmingham Law School
Professor Webley supervises students undertaking empirical socio-legal research. She is keen to hear from candidates who wish to undertake research on:
Lawyer regulation, education, professionalism and legal ethics
Legal service delivery and the impact of technology
Access to justice and family justice
Public law and practice.
Reader in Sustainable Energy Technologies
Head of Sustainable Energy Technology Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. AL-Dadah works currently supervises the following doctoral research projects:
- Anil Taskin (November 2020 to November 2024): Development of small-scale scroll expander for organic Rankine cycle. Sponsored by the Turkish Government.
- Andrew Makar (October 2020 to October 2024): Development of open cycle desiccant cooling system using metal organic framework adsorbent materials for air conditioning application. Sponsored by the British Council.
- Ibrahim Albaik (October 2019 to October 2023): Development and optimisation ...
Birmingham Fellow
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Migration, asylum, immigration detention, deportation, families, Article 8 rights, gender, men and masculinity, time, bureaucracies, legal courts, hostile environment
Emeritus Professor of Urban Education History
Director of the Voices of War & Peace Centre
School of Education
Ian is interested in the following research topics:
- material cultures of schooling;
- cultural diversity and race equality;
- anti-racist and refugee education;
- black history;
- museum and heritage education; the teaching of history.
He currently supervises a number of students including the following:
- Izzy Mohammed - Public archives, Representation and Integration in Post-War, Multicultural Urban Contexts: Birmingham and Manchester
- Alison Laitner - Discovering Childrens’ Voices and Experiences; Changes from family to institutional care ...
Associate Professor in Social Anthropology and African Studies
Department of African Studies and Anthropology
I welcome enquiries from students interested in the anthropology of migration and diasporas; religion, particularly Pentecostalism; and kinship and care.
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 ...
Lecturer in Structural Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Jimmy is interested in supervising doctoral researchers in the area of structural use of sustainable construction materials, e.g.,
- Analysis and design of light gauge steel members and structures
- Characterisation and design of structural insulated panels (SIPs)
- Structural use of glass – impact resistance and post-breakage strength
- Performance and failure analysis of insulated glazing units
- Robustness of precast concrete cross wall constructions
A CASE studentship is available in researching and developing ...
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
School of History and Cultures
I am interested to supervise postgraduate work on narrative sources, including histories and hagiographies, of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, in Northern France and England, with particular reference to elite political cultures and ideas of gender and other social identities.
Lecturer in Asian History
Department of History
Previous MA thesis topics that I have co-supervised include Sino-British economic relations and a comparative study of Roman imperial cults and Japanese overseas shrines.
I welcome inquiries from students on PhD supervision on China, East Asia, and the wider world in any time period. Current PhD topics I am co-supervising include postcolonial urban architecture and memory in Hong Kong (funded by AHRC Midlands 3 Cities Consortium), and the public history ...
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr. Yetisen is interested in supervising masters and doctoral students in the following areas:
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Biophotonics
• Wearable Devices
• Medical Diagnostics
• Optical Nanomaterials
• Entrepreneurship
Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry
School of Chemistry
Dr Yeung is seeking motivated students to work in the following areas:
- Metal-organic frameworks
- Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites
- Molecular conductors
- Materials formation and phase behaviour
- Chemical sorption, separation and sensing
- Ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity and dielectric properties
- Ionic and electronic conductors
- In situ crystallography
Interested applicants should contact Dr Yeung to discuss possible projects and funding sources, including a CV and brief letter of motivation.
Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics
Birmingham Law School
Karen welcomes proposals interested in critically examining the legal, democratic and ethical dimensions of a suite of technologies associated with networked computational systems, including big data analytics, artificial intelligence (including various forms of machine learning), distributed ledgers (including blockchain) and robotics.
Professor Yeung is open to considering PhD students with an outstanding academic record and strong research proposals. She reviews requests to consider PhD supervision on a quarterly basis. Please ...
Assistant Professor in Organisation, Work and Employment
Department of Management
Ying is interested in supervising PhD projects related to the following areas:
- Employment relations in general, especially in the areas of reward management and pay communication
- Employment prospects and workplace inclusion of immigrants
Honorary Reader
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Stephen is an experienced supervisor with 20 students successfully complete PhDs under his supervision. He is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Gene/environment interactions promoting chronic autoimmune inflammatory diseases
- Metabolomics of Inflammation
- Immune dysregulation in chronic inflammation and ageing
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Stephen Young directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk ...
Associate Professor in Interpreting and Translation Studies
Department of Modern Languages
I welcome PhD enquiries in the areas of representing sociolinguistic aspects in translation and interpreting, interpreter's role and identity.
Marie Curie Fellow
Associate professor in Mechanical Engineering (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Xianfang YUE is interested in supervising master research students in the following areas:
- Human Skull Modeling/Analysis and Biomedical Sensing and Device Development
- Mechanical properties of natural tissues, e.g. cranial cavity, dura mater
- Energy conservation and emission reduction technology based on heat pump cycle