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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
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 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 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.
Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Birmingham Law School
Shahab is happy to supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of International Law and International Human Rights Law. He has specific interest in supervising PhD students in the field of international legal history, international legal theory, third world approaches to international law, ethnic minority rights and ethnic conflicts, and right to self-determination.
Professor of International Law
Birmingham Law School
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
鈥� Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
鈥� The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
鈥� Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
鈥� John Austin鈥檚 theory of law
鈥� Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law
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 ...
Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics
Department of Theology and Religion
I welcome proposals across Islamic Studies, especially in Islamic law and ethics, that engage the textual resources of the Islamic intellectual traditions.
Current doctoral supervision
The phenomena of Maddhab change amongst Sunni legal schools in the Mamluk period
Spiritual striving in British Muslim Shia communities
Previous doctoral supervision
The Origins of Im膩m墨 岣d墨th: A Bio-bibliographical Cross-reference Analysis
Taqi al-Din al-Subki on ijtihad and the role of the Qur鈥檃n in his ...
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 (Postcolonial Legal Theory and Critical Race Studies)
Birmingham Law School
Shaimaa welcomes doctoral supervision in these areas:
鈥� Third World Approaches to International Law
鈥� Law and Development (specifically through a postcolonial lens)
鈥� Critical Approaches to Human Rights
鈥� Alternatives to Human Rights Practices
鈥� Law, Gender and Sexuality (especially in black feminist thought)
鈥� Law and Abolitionist Praxis
Associate Professor
Birmingham Law School
Dr Bryne is interested in supervising doctoral research on:
Jurisprudence
The application of other disciplines of study to the study of Law (philosophy, literary theory, economics etc)
Aspects of property and intellectual property law
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
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