Open to PhD applications in the fields of:

• Open Strategy
• Digital Strategy
• The Future of Business Schools
• The Role and Purpose of Management Education

Open to PhD applications in the field of...

• Political economy of neoliberalism
• Democracy and alternative economic policies
• The political economy of development and industrial policy
• Political ecology and climate change
• Latin American political and economic development
• The labour theory of value and its applications

Open to PhD applications in the fields of:

• EU bureaucratic politics
• EU legislative politics and policymaking
• EU Commission
• Delegation
• Multilevel Governance
• International Public policy

Open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Discursive psychology
• Intergroup relations
• Social psychology of peace and conflict
• Collective victimhood

Open to PhD applications in developmental cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and parenting with a special interest in:

• The development of social cognition
• Early neuromarkers of neurodiversity
• Trajectories of neural development in different populations
• Parents' and caregivers' mental health

I am also open to related proposals.

I am open to applications for PhD projects in governing models and numerical methods for unsteady turbulent flows, the fundamentals of high speed turbulent flows relevant to high speed propulsion and explosions or implosion, and finally predicting challenging aerodynamic flows such as full wind farm calculations, helicopters and automotive aerodynamics. I would like to encourage in particular female candidates or candidates from any other underrepresented minorities.

Open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• Impressionism
• Gender
• Aesthetics
• 19thc textual and visual studies

Education, see research focus

About the project:

Trillions of bacteria comprise the gut microbiome and contribute to human health by producing metabolites that travel to distant tissues such as the liver or brain. Therefore, the microbiome represents an innovative approach to develop new therapies. Our team studies how bacterial competition for nutrients and space shapes the biodiversity of the gut. This is important because gut biodiversity is a determinant of human health. Moreover, a few key species can affect biodiversity, by direct competition with other bacteria.

Like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, most microbiome bacteria contribute to homeostasis and contribute to reduce inflammation in the gut, but a few species have strains associated to colorectal cancer and chronic inflammation. In some cases, when in competition, the commensal (beneficial) strains can kill and eradicate the cancer-associated strains. We will study the genes participating in this process using state-of-the-art techniques such as microbiome sequencing and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. Ultimately, the results of this research should contribute to the design of strategies to better use the microbiome to reduce digestive tract cancer burden, which in the UK represents ~40,000 new cases per year with an economic cost of £17.1 billion.

The successful candidate will acquire training in cell biology, microbiology, genome editing and high-throughput sequencing. The project should provide experience to pursue industrial or academic R&D in the new field of microbiome therapeutic biologicals, synthetic biology or biotechnology.

Poetry and creative writing

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Mobile apps and Fog computing
• Automated engineering of mobile apps (e.g., app design, maintenance, review analysis)
• Design principles/patterns and micro-services
• Web APIs and mobile apps
• Distributed frameworks for direct democracy

Open to PhD applications in:

• Restorative justice
• Penal reform
• Sentencing and punishment
• Criminal justice process
• Criminal law
• Legal education

I am particularly interested in supervising PhD projects that apply core principles of developmental and cognitive psychology to better understand classroom learning and provide practitioners with research-based insights.

Potential research areas include, but are not limited to:

• The nature of mind wandering in children and adolescents
• Following instructions in applied settings
• Children's understanding of attentional states
• Children's comprehension of emotion words, and episodic future thinking

I am also open to exploring any aspect of children's cognition with direct application in classroom settings. Additionally, I have a strong interest in research co-created with teachers and educational psychologists, aiming to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Open to PhD applications in the fields of…

• High-Efficiency Onboard Chargers (OBCs).
• Non-thermal Irreversible Electroporation for Cancer Treatment.
• DC-DC Converters for EV Drivetrains.
• Bidirectional Power Flow and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Capabilities.
• High-Power and Long-Range Wireless Power Charging.
• High-Frequency Converters and Control Schemes of Wireless Power Charging

Supervising PhD Students in the following areas; 

Parenting and Child Development (Parental/Infant Mental Health)

Children’s Social and Emotional Development

Promoting school readiness and transition into school

Safeguarding – preventing impairment of children’s health and development.

Open to discuss PhD applications in education-focused projects which include:

• Developing a ‘Compassionate Pedagogy’ Framework to Inform Curriculum Design for Inclusive Learning in Higher Education
• Neurodiversity in Higher Education and Psychological/Pedagogical Support
• Predictors of Positive Student Experiences and Psychological Wellbeing
• Micro and Macro Student Experiences when Studying in Higher Education both Nationally and Internationally

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• TESOL and English Language Learning (ESL, EFL, EAL)
• Academic Discourse and English for Specific Purposes
• Applied Corpus Studies
• Speaking Skills
• English Language Learning and Migration

Open to PhD applications in the field of

• Applied econometrics to study households' choices and behaviour
• Nudges for behaviour change
• Valuing environmental and public health goods and services

Open to PhD applications in: 

• Criminal law
• Comparative criminal justice policy and practices
• Sentencing and corrections
• Punishment and society

Open to PhD applications in:

• Decadence and Aestheticism
• Oscar Wilde; Modernism
• Literature and place
• The politics of literary form
• Literary theory

Open to PhD applications in:

• Cultural Labour (precarity, inequality) and the role of the artist
• Ethics, stakeholder management and organisational decision-making in arts and cultural industries management
• Arts & CCI management studies (non-profit and social enterprise)
• Cultural leadership
• Themes of cultural policy-making with specific reference to festivals, youth arts and role of the artist

Open to PhD applications in: 

• Critical approaches to public international law
• International human rights law and comparative law
• Right to truth and accountability for human rights abuses
• International law and Israel/Palestine

Open to PhD applications in: 

• Brexit (particularly in relation to Northern Ireland or justice and security issues more broadly)
• Critical approaches to international law and institutions
• Postcolonial theory
• Critical criminology

Open to PhD applications in

• All aspects of laser-atom interaction, especially those with a focus on electron correlation effects

Open to PhD applications in:

• Functional material synthesis foe energy and sensing applications
• Molecular electrochemistry