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 “legal education”
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.
Associate Professor in Law (Dubai)
Birmingham Law School
I am looking to supervise doctoral candidates in areas of criminal evidence, ethics (values) and legal education/mentoring in pedagogical curricula designs that enhances student learning and teacher reflection.
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)
Birmingham Law School
Dr Morgan is keen to supervise postgraduate research students whose research interests lie in the following areas:
The regulation of: the security services, investigatory powers, access to public information
Legal theory, particularly those interested in critical consideration of theories of justice, contemporary liberal theory and democratic theory
Applied legal theory
Counter-terrorism, security, human rights and accountability
The interplay of any of the above with ideas of liberty, privacy, and human ...
Professor of Translator Education
Head of School of Language, Culture, Art History and Music
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Department of Modern Languages
I have wide-ranging interests across the field of Translation Studies. My current PhD students are working in translation competence, translation industry requirements, ego-targeting in tourism translation, measurement of translator style using computational methods, the use of AI in legal translation and the use and translation of evaluative adjectives in tourism translation.
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
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
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.
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
Assistant Professor in Commercial Dispute Resolution
Co-Deputy Head of Education (Education Review)
Birmingham Law School
dispute resolution, private international law
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Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement
Director of IRiS
Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Nando welcomes proposals for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the following areas:
- Forced displacement and globalisation
- Sociology of statelessness
- Dual citizenship and the experiences of dual citizens
- The intersection between migration, rights and citizenship
- Everyday experiences of superdiversity
- Neoliberalism, globalisation and governance of human mobility
- The politics of refugee voices and silences
- Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism
- Undocumented migrants and experiences of ‘illegality’ through generations
- Child and family migration
- Transnationalism and ...
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
Honorary Professor of Quaker Studies
Director, Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies
Department of Theology and Religion
The Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies has around 20 MA by Research/ PhD students and is the leading centre worldwide in research into Quakerism. There is a staff team of 14 supervisors and we can supervise in most areas of Quaker studies: history, theology, philosophy, sociology, literary studies and Quaker values in education.
My own research interests lie particularly in the sociology of religion and the sociology of sects. For ...
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