History PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Staff research interest areas include: 19th and 20th century women’s and gender history; modern religious history; history of sexuality and moral reform; feminist theory and history; 20th century Europe with a specialist interest in French cultural history; war and cultural memory; filmic representations of history; heritage studies; landscape in the medieval period; philosophy of history; modern intellectual thinkers; experimental histories.(read more)

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Finance and Accounting PhD with Integrated Study

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research supervision is available in all areas of staff expertise related to finance and accounting.(read more)

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Metallurgy and Materials PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research activities are centred on the following groups: Alloy and process development; alloy chemistry; casting, solidification and welding; ceramics; corrosion and oxidation; fatigue and fracture; ferrous metallurgy; high temperature superconductivity; magnetic materials; materials processing; microstructural studies; polymers; simulation of manufacturing and materials; sports materials; surface engineering and heat treatment.(read more)

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Radiography PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Departmental research strengths are in the scientific and technological basis of diagnostic imaging, radiotherapy, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and management and effectiveness of CPD (continuing professional development) in radiography. Special facilities include: fully equipped imaging suite, physic laboratory with Sun and PC workstations, radionuclide imaging suite; ultrasound suite; radiotherapy planning computer.(read more)

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Human Factors PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: The group is focused on understanding the characteristics and capabilities of people and organisations, and improving knowledge about human interaction with systems in manufacturing and process control; transport; service and leisure industries; the home and public institutions; the fundamental research in ergonomics covers all of cognitive, physical and social ergonomics, with particular focus on rail human factors.(read more)

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Biomedical Ethics PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The School engages in a wide variety of research activity ranging from conceptual philosophy to empirical research, including a number of interdisciplinary projects utilising mixed methodologies; it also researches and publishes in areas beyond the core research interests of biomedical ethics and are actively involved in running seminar series and conferences.(read more)

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Urban and Regional Studies PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: This programme has ESRC recognition; examples of recently completed PhDs include: The experience of African-Caribbean migrants of home ownership in Birmingham and London; the role of inter-organisational partnerships in improving refugee housing options in UK cities; housing renewal policy in Seoul and Birmingham; trans-national policy transfers in European urban economic development; private finance initiative and social housing.(read more)

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Mathematical Sciences PhD with Integrated Study

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Programme includes taught elements over all years which cover generic skills (professional skills, career planning), research methods, and discipline specific modules chosen from: numerical solution of ordinary differential equations; numerical solution of partial differential equations; dynamical systems; non-linear algebraic systems and optimisation; integral equations; finite-element analysis; advanced mathematical modelling.(read more)

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Primary and Community Care PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The programme areas are: Older people; adolescent and child health; patient experience and public involvement; maternal and women's health; health policy; public health and health protection; evidence-based practice.(read more)

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Art PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following main areas: Contemporary art; aesthetics; 20th-century British art; contextual art practices; post-colonialism, globalisation and photographic theory; social sculpture/art and social processes; sound technology and performance; text and context.(read more)

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Sports Related Studies PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Research supervison is available in the following fields: aAdolescent lifestyle and health; health benefits of physical activity; social sciences of sport; sport and exercise psychology, physiology and biomechanics; sport technology.(read more)

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Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research interests include: Antimicrobial peptides; corneal epithelial wound healing; ocular surface reconstruction, corneal stem cell research, and Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD).(read more)

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Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The Division focuses on research that addresses clinical problems; main areas of research are in biomaterial-related infection, arthritis, biomechanics and injury prevention; the group is developing long term (3-6 months) broad spectrum systems for use in indwelling catheters in urology/CAPD and vascular access, as well as highly clinically predictive evaluation techniques.(read more)

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Agriculture and the Environment PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research areas include: Development and management of environmental management systems; agri-environmental auditing; dissemination of technological know-how to the agricultural and related sectors in both the UK and overseas.(read more)

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Cancer Biology PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: The vascular biology group seeks to understand the molecular basis for differences between normal blood and lymphatic vessels; researchers are studying the scientific basis of cancer vaccines [Clin Cancer Res 2000: (6) 422]; mechanisms of chemo-resistance including resistance to apoptosis in acute myeloblastic leukaemia are being studied by researchers in leukaemia biology [Exp Hematol 2000: (28) 535].(read more)

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Structural Biology PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Research interests of staff include: Characterisation of post-translational modifications of proteins involved in signal transduction by mass spectrometry; studies of protein fibres in health and disease; protein crystallography; NMR studies of DNA binding proteins, disintegrins and nitroreductase; proton translocation; membrane proteins; redox proteins; protein NMR phosphorylation; X-ray studies of protein structure.(read more)

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United States Studies PhD

Study modes: Full time

Course description: Research supervision available; principal areas of staff interest: American literature; music; politics; political thought; history; art history; film and economic and social history; United States constitutional history; foreign policy.(read more)

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Sociology PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research supervision is available in a wide range of sociology topics.(read more)

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Physics PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research in the department encompasses: Theoretical particle physics and cosmology; ab initio molecular and materials modelling; solid state physics; bio- and nano-photonics and X-ray physics; research in theoretical physics and cosmology has a particular focus on the interdisciplinary area of astro-particle physics.(read more)

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Biochemistry and biophysics PhD

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Principal areas of research include: structure and function of cell membranes; bioenergetics; metalloproteins; biological EPR; tissue kallikreins; peptide-membrane interactions; biochemistry of advanced glycation end products; oxidative cell damage; apoptosis; anticancer drugs; drug design; molecular structure and modelling of G-protein receptors; studies on enzyme and receptor activation.(read more)

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