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 ...
Assistant Professor in Marketing (Dubai)
Dubai Campus
Postgraduate (MSc) research project - Thesis supervisor (15 students– Postgraduate (MSc))
Professor of Biostatistics in Maternal and Perinatal Health
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
Co-supervised (Completed)
Co-supervision (in
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Associate Professor in Comparative European Politics
Department of Political Science and International Studies
Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis is happy to accept PhD students in the areas of his research interests broadly conceived (see relevant section).
Interested candidates are welcome to contact him with ideas and a draft proposal but any applications are handled centrally by the University 麻豆精选 and POLSIS.
Assistant Professor in Mathematics
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
- Currently supervising 1 PhD student. Contact me for informal enquiries about PhD supervision
- Regular supervision of MSc projects in Applied Mathematics and Biomedical Sciences (contact me for enquiries).
Assistant Professor in Mathematics
Department of Metabolism and Systems Science
- Currently supervising 1 PhD student. Contact me for informal enquiries about PhD supervision
- Regular supervision of MSc projects in Applied Mathematics and Biomedical Sciences (contact me for enquiries).
Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Department of Management
Yuanzhu welcomes applicants who have an excellent academic background and a strong ambition to work in the academic (in technology-driven innovation, business analytics and sustainable supply chain areas) for his/her future career to apply for PhD under his supervision.
Assistant Professor in Digital Healthcare Engineering
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Dr Le Zhang is looking for PhD students and visiting scholars with strong motivation to work on reliable machine learning and medical image analysis, especially PhD students with CSC’s support potentially. Please feel free to email Dr Zhang if you are interested.
- Foundation models for generalizable disease detection from retinal images
- Generative AI for Medical Imaging
- Multimodal learning for population health studies
- Computational imaging methods for population image
Associate Professor
Director of Postgraduate Research
School of Psychology
PhD students: Students interested in working with Dr Zhang should email him to discuss potential funding opportunities. Current funding schemes include MRC-AIM, BBSRC-MIBTP, and CSC.
Postdoc researchers: Excellent and motivated postdoc researchers are welcome to contact Dr Zhang to discuss potential projects and funding opportunities (both national and international).
Research Fellow in Economics
The Department of Economics
Qinqin Xiong (2021- ): UoB full scholarship
Assistant Professor in Experimental Physics
Supervision of PhDs in gravitational-wave instrumental research.
Assistant Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Dr Tongtong Zhang is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Thermal energy (heat and cold) storage
- Thermo-mechanical energy storage
- Cryogenic energy storage (liquid air energy storage, liquid hydrogen storage etc.)
- Industrial decarbonisation
- Process and system simulation and optimization
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Tongtong Zhang on the contact details above.
Chair in Electrical Power Systems
Director of Smart Grid, Birmingham Energy Institute
Co-Director, Birmingham Energy Storage Centre (sponsored by EPSRC)
Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Xiao-Ping is interested in supervising doctoral research students in the following areas:
- Electrical Power Systems
- Smart Grids
- Power Electronic Control – FACTS and VSC HVDC
- Renewable Generation Control
- Integration of PHEVs into Power Grids
- Smart Metering, Wide Area Awareness and Self-healing Power Grid
- Energy Markets and Game Theory
If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Xiao-Ping on the contact details above, or for any ...