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 ...
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 ...