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 “law society”
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 ...
Professor of Law and Birmingham Fellow
Head of Research
Birmingham Law School
Reproductive Rights
Global, International, and Transnational Health Law
Human Rights and Health
Medical and Health Law
Comparative Law
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 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 ...
Professor of Law and Political Economy
Birmingham Law School
I am happy to read PhD proposals in the following areas:
鈥� Law and development (especially in Latin America)
鈥� Law and political economy
鈥� Gender, sexuality, and law
鈥� Gambling regulation
Professor of Health Care Law
Birmingham Law School
Health, Health Care Law and Social Care Law in particular,
Health Law and the EU and the impacts of Brexit
Covid 19 and health and social care
Health Care Privacy and Confidentiality
Legal Regulation of Cosmetic procedures
Legal Regulation of Use of Human Material
Legal Regulation of Clinical Research
Professor of Company Law and Company Law in Context
Birmingham Law School
I am available to supervise in the following areas. Business History, corporate law theory, critical approaches to shareholder rights and shareholder centred governance, the socio-economic and political impact of corporate activities, growth, degrowth and corporate sustainability, the visual arts and corporations, corporations and labour, corporations and social progress, business human rights, feminism, gender and corporations and the political economy of companies.
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 ...
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 in Law and Innovation
Birmingham Law School
Dr Karanasiou鈥� s principal research interests are in regulatory design of emerging technologies, particularly looking at the promotion of autonomy in times of rapid automation within and beyond the digital sphere. Argyro welcomes enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in pursuing PhD study under her supervision.
Professor of International Legal Studies
Associate Dean 麻豆精选 Law School
Birmingham Law School
I am interested in supervising high quality postgraduate research projects in the following areas:
Preferential trade agreements and regional blocs; Comparative regional economic integration law; Eurasian economic integration
EU Neighbourhood Policy and external relations with Eastern Europe and Eurasia; EU-Russia relations
Legal reform; Law and Development; External promotion of rule of law and good governance
Comparative Corporate Governance
Associate Professor
Director of Research Impact
Birmingham Law School
Dr Coe welcomes expressions of interest for prospective PhD students in his areas of interest, and the field of Media Law more broadly.
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