PhD Advisors at King's College London 伦敦国王学院 UK
Quick answer: King's College London in the UK has 1572 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 196 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at King's College London, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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Professors at King's College London with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Andi Hoxhaj
Lecturer in Law · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Unfortunately, Dr Hoxhaj currently does not have capacity to take on PhD supervisions.
Law
EU Law
Migration
Corruption
The Rule of Law
Western Balkans
Andreas Baas
Professor of Aeolian Geomorphology · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Andreas welcomes research students on a range of topics, including: Desert dune hazards under climate change; Dune interactions in barchan swarms; Sand transport dynamics and bedforms on Mars; Micro-plastics in coastal dune environments.
Geography
Brian Murray
Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome applications from PhD students with interests in any of my areas of research. I have recently supervised projects on nineteenth-century women and horses; literature and Victorian waterways; Robert Louis Stevenson and Japan; and Victorian debates about the value and utility of literature.
Literature
Victorian literature and culture
Travel writing and empire
Literature, music and religion
The biblical and classical past in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard
Reader (Associate Professor) in International and South Asian History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome applications from potential PhD students on projects concerning the international history of South Asia, and on north-eastern India and the Himalayas.
History
International and transnational relations
South Asia and the Indian Ocean
Frontiers, borders and borderlands
Decolonisation
State-making and nation-building
Maritime spaces
Christian J. Tams
Professor of Public International Law · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Christian currently has capacity to take on PhD supervisions.
Christian is a generalist international lawyer, with particular expertise in the fields of dispute settlement, international security, sovereign immunities and investment protection. In these and other fields, he has published 27 books (as author or editor) and around 180 article…
Clyde Ancarno
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Clyde welcomes applications from PhD candidates interested in using/exploring the following methodologies or topics:
- Language in education policy and practice.
- Multilingual education.
- Corpus-assisted discourse analysis.
- Discourse about the natural world, media discourse and inter-religious d…
Communication, Education, Languages
Dr Ashwin Mathew
Senior Lecturer in Global Digital Cultures · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Ashwin welcomes applications from potential PhD students interested in studying these topics: Everyday practices of Internet governance, Cybersecurity cultures, Critical perspectives on networked technologies, Comparative and relational studies of technical cultures across Global South and Global No…
Digital, Everyday practices of Internet governance, Cybersecurity cultures, Critical perspectives on networked technologies, Comparative and relational studies of technical cultures across Global South and Global North
Dr Elisa Oreglia
Reader in Global Digital Cultures · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Elisa welcomes applications from potential PhD students interested in studying the topics above, especially from an Asian and South-to-South cooperation perspective.
Digital technology use in the Global South, Critical approaches to ICT and development, ICT policies and infrastructural development in the Global South, Technological innovation in the Global South, History of Internet and digital technologies in the Global South
Dr Fa Chen
Director of English Law & Hong Kong Law LLB and JD Programme, Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Dr Fa Chen is keen to supervise PhD and LLM students in the areas of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Securities Regulation.
['Company Law', 'Corporate Finance', 'Corporate Governance', 'Capital Markets and Securities Regulation', 'Law and Economics']
Dr Gavin Williams
Lecturer in Music · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I am always happy to talk to students about dissertation ideas (undergraduate theses, master’s and PhD) so please feel free to be in touch.
19th- and 20th-Century Music, Sound Studies, Environmental Humanities
Dr John Pearce
Reader in Archaeology · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I am interested in supervising PhD students in:
Archaeology of the Roman Empire
Archaeology of the dead
Roman Britain
Classics
Archaeology of the Roman Empire, especially Rome's north-west provinces and Roman Italy
Archaeology of death and burial
Archaeology of documents and literacy
Archaeology of Roman and pre-Roman landscapes
Roman small finds; visual culture and Roman bronzes
Dr Melissa Elechiguerra Labarca
Lecturer in Taxation Education · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Yes, Melissa is accepting PhD supervisions.
Law
International taxation
Protection of Taxpayers’ Rights
Exchange of tax information
Edmund Gordon
Reader in Creative and Critical Writing · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Edmund welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any of his research interests.
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Edward Zychowicz-Coghill
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome applications from PhD students on any aspect of early Islamic history and historiography.
Early Islamic history and historiography, Arabic historical writing, pre-Islamic world, ethnic and geographical discourses in Islamic representations of antiquity, Arabic reception of late antique Iranian history-writing, foundation narratives of the first Islamic cities, attitud…
Emel Akçalı
Senior Lecturer in International Relations · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Emel welcomes PhD students looking to research in the broad area of international relations, critical geopolitics and critical security studies with a focus on the wider Mediterranean region, the Arctic and environmental politics.
Environment, Security, International relations; Environmental Geopolitics, Green Energy Transition, Critical Security Studies, Critical Geopolitics, Non-Western /Global IR, Geopolitical Imaginations, Post human IR
Emily Pillinger
Reader in Classics and Interdisciplinary Humanities · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I would be delighted to supervise any doctoral work that focuses on musical receptions of Classics.
Classics
Music and the reception of Classics
Creative practice in music as classical reception
Ancient Greek and Latin poetry
Gethin Rees
Lecturer in Digital Products and Industries · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I would be interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas: Geography and heritage; Web maps, GIS and the spatial humanities; History, heritage and digital applications in South Asia
heritage, geography and software development; understanding how audiences engage with visualisations and digital cartography through ideation and development; Geography and heritage; Web maps, GIS and the spatial humanities; History, heritage and digital applications in South Asi…
Hannah Dawson
Reader in the History of Political Thought · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Hannah would be pleased to supervise PhDs in the history of political thought and intellectual history, especially within or connected to the early-modern period.
History of political thought and intellectual history; History of gender and feminism; History of theories of language; Hobbes; Locke
Hessam Mehr
Lecturer in AI for Science and Chemistry · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ PhD Supervision: Luokun Zhang, Zehua Li
Chemistry in microdroplets, Inhomogeneous chemical systems, High-throughput analytical methods, Programmable chemistry, Sensors and imaging, Artificial intelligence in chemistry
Jasper Reid
Reader in Philosophy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Welcomes PhD applications from anyone who intends to work on early modern philosophy, especially (but not exclusively) when their narrower research interests within that field happen to coincide with his own.
Philosophy
Cartesianism
Cambridge Platonism
Immaterialism
Philosophy and religion
Philosophy and science
Jon Day
Reader in English and Creative Writing · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I am keen to hear from potential PhD students working on modernist literature, and creative non-fiction projects.
Anglo-Irish modernism, especially prose fiction; Philosophical and cultural history of consciousness & the senses; Urban studies; Contemporary prose fiction; Flann O’Brien; Creative non-fiction; Place, nature and travel writing
Laura Gowing
Professor of Women’s and Early Modern History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Enquiries from prospective PhD students in any area of British social and cultural history 1500-1800 are welcome.
History
Majed Akhter
Senior Lecturer in Environment and Society · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ PhD supervision: Majed would be interested to supervise anyone looking to research: Historical geography and politics of Pakistan and/or Malaysia; Politics of large physical infrastructures; Critical approaches to environment and development (especially water); Geopolitics of state formation
Infrastructures, Natural resources, Geopolitics, Marxism, Comparative and trans-regional methods
Max Edling
Professor of Early American History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Dr Edling is willing to supervise broadly in the intellectual, institutional and legal history of the American Revolution and founding. Projects dealing with political ideology, governmental institutions and policies, and the legal history of slavery, Native Americans, free people of colour, women, …
History
American founding
United States early republic
Early American state formation
Early American public finance
Mihael Jeklic
Lecturer and Director of Professional Skills · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Yes, Mihael is accepting PhD supervisions
Social cognition in negotiation (the inferential processes that allow people to make sense of each other in terms of mental states applied to negotiation), with an emphasis on:
* Heuristics in negotiation (rules of thumb automatically applied in negotiation that may lead to sy…
Nick Srnicek
Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Dr Srnicek is able to supervise PhD students on the following topics: Critical accounts of the digital economy; Geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence; Anti-work politics; Postcapitalist futures; Digital development
Critical accounts of the digital economy; Geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence; Anti-work politics; Postcapitalist futures; Digital development
Paul Spence
Reader in Digital Humanities · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ He welcomes enquiries about the supervision of PhD projects in any of these areas.
Culture, Digital, Languages
Richard Drayton
Professor of Imperial and Global History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Professor Drayton would welcome applications from research students interested in working on topics relating to: Any aspect of the history of any European empire, or on the imperial experience of any region of the world, including Europe itself. He is comfortable supervising research in any period o…
History; How empires shape economy, society, politics, and culture at both their centres and peripheries; The entangled history of European empires and their impact on Europe's hinterlands; The British Empire from c. 1600 to its aftermaths, and its impact on the British isles; Fr…
Ros Murray
Senior Lecturer in French · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome PhD applications in film and visual culture, in particular related to avant-garde, experimental, queer and feminist work.
Culture, Languages, Media, Documentary, avant-garde and experimental film cultures in France and Spain, Feminism and queer theory, Antonin Artaud
Ruvani Ranasinha
Professor of Global Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I would be interested in hearing from prospective doctoral students in any of these areas, or in postcolonial and world literature more broadly.
Literature
Sylvie Delacroix
Professor, Director of the Centre for Data Futures, Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law · The Dickson Poon School of Law
⭐ Sylvie is accepting PhD applications that focus on either large language models and the communication of unquantifiable uncertainty or on the role of habit within our ethical lives
Philosophy of Law
Legal Theory
Philosophy and AI, data-related themes
Toby Green
Professor of Precolonial and Lusophone African History and Culture · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ PhD supervision – current recently completed areas: Postcolonial Angola: History and Politics; African cultural and political influences in the Cuban revolution; Empire, environment and early modern Portuguese expansion; Youth movements and political participation in Lusophone Africa; The Angolan di…
African economic history and its intersection with world economic history; Atlantic slavery; Connections between the precolonial, the colonial and the postcolonial state in Africa; The Covid-19 pandemic and global inequality
Vivienne Xiangwei Guo
Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Dr Guo welcomes interest from prospective research students in the following fields: Intellectual and political history of modern China; Gender and women’s history in modern China; Chinese warlordism and the Chinese federalist movement; The literary, cultural, and political societies of Chinese inte…
Intellectual and political history of modern China; Gender and women’s history in modern China; Chinese warlordism and the Chinese federalist movement; The literary, cultural, and political societies of Chinese intellectuals; Transnational history of Chinese intellectuals, partic…
Áine McMurtry
Reader in German · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ She welcomes MA and PhD projects on any topics related to her research and broader interests in modern literature and film; any interested students should please contact her directly.
Languages; Modern German and Austrian literature and culture; Experimental Writing; Translingual Texts; Critical Theory; Cultures of Migration
Aaron Rosenberg
Lecturer in Literary Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I would be interested in supervising PhDs on Victorian and Modern literature, ecocritism, and environmental humanities
19th and 20th century literature; Environmental humanities and ecocriticism; History and theory of the novel; Genre theory
Abdoolkarim Vakil
Lecturer in History and Portuguese Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome research students with an interest in any of these or related areas.
History; Portuguese Intellectual and Cultural History, 19th and 20th centuries; Nationalism and National Identity and related political ideologies and movements; Historical Commemorations, Heritage and collective memory; European Colonial Relations with Islam and Muslims and Cont…
Adrian Alsmith
Senior lecturer in Philosophy (Mind and Psychology) · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Adrian welcomes enquiries from prospective research students in areas of study relating to his research interests.
Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Perception, Self-consciousness, Virtual reality, Imagination
Alice Taylor
Professor of Medieval History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome applications from potential PhD students in any of the above areas.
History
European politics in the central middle ages and political thought; history of politics
Medieval states and governments
Law and legal norms; ideas of legal traditions.
British and Irish history over the long term
Medieval memories and identities; historical writing.
Amanda Chisholm
Reader in Gender and Security · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Chisholm is happy to Supervise PhD students interested in feminist theory, women peace and security, gender and the military, global security and militarism
Conflict, Security, Feminist security studies and global political economy, Private Military and Security Companies, Gender and the military, Gurkhas, Ethnography, Ethical recruitment
Ambarish Karamchedu
Lecturer in International Development · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Ambarish welcomes students looking to study any of the following areas: Political economy/ecology of industrial livestock systems (poultry in particular); Agrarian and environmental change in India; Agrarian capitalism and climate change; Critical approaches to environment, development and groundwat…
Political economy/ecology of industrial livestock systems (poultry in particular); India/South Asia; Agrarian political economy; Environmental/climate change in smallholder agriculture; Deagrarianisation and labour markets; Caste, waste, labour and urban political ecology; Critic…
Andrea Ballatore
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Data Science · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ As a geographic data scientist, he is keen to supervise PhD students working on quantitative and computational methods at the intersection of geography, GIS, cultural and creative industries, cartography, museum studies, and media studies. He particularly welcomes applications from students eager to…
Cultural Geo-Analytics: leverages geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the socio-spatial aspects of cultural production and consumption, analysing how cultural objects—such as museum collections, books, maps, films, and songs—are geographically distributed and how …
Andreas Krieg
Senior Lecturer School of Security Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Krieg is happy to supervise PhD students on aspects of non-state actors in war, surrogate warfare and Middle East security.
Conflict, Security, Security Sector Reform in the Middle East, Regime Resilience in MENA, Changing Security Discourse in the Arab world, Violent non-state actors in MENA, Gulf Security
Angus McNelly
Lecturer in International Development (Politics) · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Angus is open to supervise PhD students on below topics: Latin American Politics, Natural Resource-Led Development, Extractivism, Global Finance, Energy Transitions
International development, Politics
Anit Mukherjee
Senior Lecturer · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Anit welcomes PhD applications on the following topics: Civil-military Relations, India's military and foreign policies, South Asian Security, Strategic Studies
India's foreign and defence policy, Indo-Pacific, Civil-military relations
Ann Lorek
Lecturer Child Health and Development · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ She does not currently accept PhD supervision requests.
brain injury prevention, refugee child health, and safeguarding
Anna Snaith
Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I would be interested in hearing from prospective doctoral students in any of these areas or modernism more broadly.
Literature, Virginia Woolf, Modernist women writers, Modernism and colonialism, Literary sound studies
Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira
Lecturer in Geopolitics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Antonio welcomes PhD project proposals in areas relating to:
- The History of Geopolitical Ideas (especially beyond the Anglosphere)
- Geographies of anticolonial worldmaking and decolonization
- Geographies of socialist, anticolonial and pacifist imaginations
- Geopolitical imaginations and the Ant…
Geography, Politics, History
Ben Baumberg Geiger
Professor in Social Science and Health · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ I’m always happy to hear from potential collaborators / research students, or from people who are interested in my research.
Mental Health, Decent work & economic growth (SDG 8), Employment, Employers
Billy Holzberg
Lecturer in Social Justice · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Billy welcomes PhD proposals in the following areas: Affect and emotions in politics and society; Borders, migration and nationalism; Far-right resurgence and anti-gender movements; Sex, sexuality and sexual politics; Queer and feminist theory; Media discourse and conspiracy narratives.
His research focuses on the emotional dynamics of social and political life, with particular attention to nationalism, bordering and the resurgence of the far right. Drawing on queer, feminist and postcolonial affect theory, he analyses how emotions such as fear, resentment, empa…
Bouke Klein Teeselink
Lecturer in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Bouke will consider PhD supervision of any student who wants to use advanced quantitative methods to study the economics of AI.
Behavioural economics, Applied microeconomics, Political economy, Economics of AI
Charlotte Russell
Reader in Psychology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Charlotte is also happy to supervise PhD projects in any of these areas.
Neuropsychology – cognitive effects of stroke and dementia; Episodic Memory; Spatial representation and visual attention; Consciousness; Cognition and Ageing
Chase Foster
Lecturer in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Foster welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any of his research interests.
Dr Foster’s work is in comparative and international political economy, with a geographical focus on Europe and North America. His research interests include: politics of market regulation and enforcement; law and capitalism; political economy of industrial policy; economic liber…
Chris Berry
Professor of Film Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Chris would be interested in supervising PhD students working on any topics close to his own research. For more details please see his full research profile.
Arts; Media; Chinese and East Asian cinema and screen cultures; Screens and Public Space; Gender, Sexuality and Cinema; Documentary Film; Theorizing Screen Studies; Theories of National and Transnational Cinema
Chris Manias
Reader in the History of Science · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I would be pleased to hear from prospective postgraduate students interested in the modern history of science, or more generally in the cultural and intellectual history of Britain, France, German-speaking Europe and the USA in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. I would be particularly in…
History
Christine Cheng
Senior Lecturer in International Relations · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ PhD Students applications
Conflict, International development, Security
Christopher Kinsey
Professor of International Security · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Professor Kinsey is happy to supervise PhD students in the following subject areas: The Privatisation of Security, The Role of Contractors in War, Outsourcing Military Capability, The Role of the Market in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments, Mercenary Operations in Africa, 1960-1970, The Politi…
Conflict, Security, The Privatisation of Security, Strategic Thought, New Wars, Security Sector Reform
Claire Heard
Lecturer in Psychology Education · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ PhD Supervision: Claire would be interested in supervising students in any of the areas above.
Applied judgement and the use of choice architecture interventions
Risk Perception and Risk communication
Affect, Judgements and Decision Making
Choice Architecture & Debiasing
Information Design & Information Search
Inclusive Education and AI in Learning and Assessments
Clare Carlisle
Professor of Philosophy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Professor Carlisle welcomes enquiries from prospective research students who would like to work with her on doctoral projects relating to the research themes listed above.
Philosophy; History of modern philosophy, especially Spinoza, Kierkegaard and George Eliot; Philosophy and literature/art; Philosophies of religion; Life writing; Ethics and human flourishing, especially concepts of habit and practice
Clare Herrick
Professor of Geography and Global Health · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Clare welcomes applications from prospective PhD applicants on the following topics: Any qualitative of mixed methods research on health in geography, Medical sociology/ anthropology topics, Global health, Health inequalities, Urban health, Political ecological approaches to health.
Geography
Claudia Aradau
Professor of International Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Claudia welcomes PhD applications that develop critical engagements with security practices, particularly border security and mass surveillance, in the digital age.
International relations; Politics; Critical security studies; Security practices in the digital age; International political sociology; Critical methods in international relations
Claudia Horn
Lecturer in International Political Economy Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ I welcome applications for PhD topics related to any of my research interests.
International political economy, Environmental politics, International development, Climate finance, Latin America, Brazil, Forest conservation and carbon offsetting, Political theory, Political economy
Craig Moyes
Reader in French and Quebec Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Craig Moyes would welcome doctoral students interested in early modern literature, or in Québécois literature and culture.
Literary and cultural history of 20th- and 21st-century Quebec; Early modern French and comparative literature; Literary and poetic theory
Daanish Mustafa
Professor in Critical Geography · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Daanish welcomes PhD studentship applications relating to: Property rights, equity and community in irrigation management; Disaster risk reduction: from theory to practice; The spatiality and geography of violence and terror; Subnational scale hydropolitics; Post-structuralist reinterpretation of en…
Geography
Dalia Gebrial
Lecturer · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dalia is interested in supervising students focusing on the following research areas: race/racism, labour, class, political economy, cultural geographies, social reproduction, digital economies.
Employment, Geography, London, Race and Racialisation, Platform economies, Globalisation, Social Reproduction, Urbanism, Infrastructure, Political Economy
Daniel Allington
Reader in Social Analytics · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Dr Allington is not currently accepting new PhD students.
Extremism and political violence, Antisemitism, Conspiracy beliefs, Cultural industries, Applied statistics
David Carpenter
Professor of Medieval History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Professor Carpenter is happy to supervise jointly with Alice Taylor a wide variety of topics within the history of Britain in the central middle ages.
History; Magna Carta; King Henry III; Westminster Abbey; Medieval Scotland
Devin Terhune
Reader in Experimental Psychology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Please email Devin if you are interested in joining the Awareness & Modulation Lab as a postdoc, PhD student, BSc/MSc student, or research intern to work on any of the above topics.
Consciousness, Dissociative states and disorders, Functional neurological disorder, Hallucinations, Hypnosis, Metacognition, Placebo/nocebo responses, Psychedelics, Suggestion and suggestibility, Time perception
Dr Alex Clarkson
Lecturer in European Politics and History · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Alexander welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any of his research interests.
History
Dr Alex Gould
Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies (Future of Conflict) · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Alex will consider PhD applicants in any of his research areas.
International relations, Policy
Dr Alice Xiang
Lecturer in Comparative Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Please note Alice will be on maternity leave from 2026-7 and is not currently taking on new doctoral students.
Chinese-Turkish literary relations in the first half of the twentieth century, situating them within the networks of solidarity and cosmopolitan practices that formed across new and emerging nations during this period. More broadly, her work is driven by questions such as: What s…
Dr Apurv Chauhan
Senior Lecturer in Social & Cultural Psychology (Education) · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Apurv welcomes doctoral students in the following areas: Poverty, homelessness, deprivation; Social representations and public understanding of science; Qualitative approaches to examining perspectives on risk and trust in health; Indigenous epistemologies and psychologies.
Apurv is a social and cultural psychologist committed to understanding poverty, homelessness, and related social inequalities and injustices. In this area, his work explores the role of language in constructing and driving disadvantage, stigmatisation, and othering of people in t…
Dr Barnaby Dye
Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Barnaby is open to supervise PhD students on below topics: Indian and Brazilian foreign policy 'Rising powers' as development donors; Africa's international relations; Political economy in Africa; Politics of infrastructure and the green transition; Research on Rwanda, Tanzania, Ghana and Ethiopia.
International development; Politics
Dr Bence Nemeth
Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Nemeth is happy to accept PhD students under the following subject areas: Defence Cooperation, Military Innovation, Strategic Management in Defence Organisations.
Security, Conflict, Defence, Management
Dr Benjamin Kienzle
Reader in Security Cooperation · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Kienzle is happy to offer PhD supervision in the following subject areas: Security cooperation, International security organisations, Informal governance, Non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, European security, EU foreign, security and defence policies.
Conflict, Security, International relations
Dr Christine Mathias
Lecturer in Modern Latin American History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Christine welcomes PhD applications from research students working on any area of modern Latin American history, including those interested in nation-state formation, populism, political violence, and borderlands history.
History, Modern Latin America, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Populism
Dr Emma Colven
Senior Lecturer in Risk, Environment, and Society · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Emma is happy to discuss potential thesis topics and funding avenues with prospective PhD students who share her research interests. When contacting Emma as a prospective supervisor, please share your CV, a brief description of your research interests[otential topic, and interest in studying at King…
Politics of Urban Adaptation and Resilience; Uneven Geographies of Speculative Urban Development; Digital Political Ecologies
Dr Eva Ogiermann
Reader in English Language and Applied Linguistics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Eva is currently open to accepting new PhD students and is available to supervise projects within the following areas: Social Interaction, Pragmatics, Im/Politeness Studies, Linguistic Landscape Studies.
Social Interaction, Cultural Diversity, Cross-cultural Pragmatics, Pragmatics in Language Teaching, Im/politeness, Linguistic Landscapes
Dr Giouliana Kadra-Scalzo
Lecturer in Organisational Psychiatry and Psychology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Dr Kadra-Scalzo currently accepts PhD students.
Psychiatry; Psychology; Evidence-based interventions to support recovery and return to work; Leadership, career development and progression; Finding and maintaining purpose and meaning at work
Dr Gülüm Özer
Lecturer of Psychological Medicine, Organisational Psychiatry and Psychology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Dr. Gülüm Özer supervises PhD students and welcomes those who are passionate about stopping workplace bullying perpetration.
Mental Health, Workplace bullying perpetration, Employee wellbeing
Dr Harvey G. Cohen
Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Harvey G. Cohen welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any of his research interests.
Cultural and political history; History and business of popular music and film in the US and UK; American and African American history and politics; Museums, publishing industry, New York City
Dr Helen McCartney
Reader in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ She is happy to offer doctoral supervision in civil-military relations and the history of war in the twentieth century. In particular she is interested in: Military, social and cultural history of the First World War; Contemporary civil-military relations.
Conflict; Security; War and Society in the Twentieth Century; First World War Military History; War Syndromes in the Twentieth Century; Civil-Military Relations
Dr Isabelle Hertner
Reader in the Politics of Britain in Europe · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Isabelle has supervised seven PhD students to completion and would welcome applications in the following research areas: Political parties in Europe: organisation, policies, discourses, strategies; Women and LGBTQ+ people’s representation in politics; The European Parliament: elections, internal pol…
Politics
Dr Joan Redmond
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern British History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome expressions of interest from prospective PhD students interested in researching topics connected with the above themes, especially those based in the seventeenth century. Please note that I generally will not consider topics that fall considerably outside this remit. I have previously serv…
History
Seventeenth-century Irish and British history
History of violence, protest and rebellion
Religious history of Ireland and Britain in the early modern period
The early modern Atlantic world, especially as it connects to Ireland
Dr John Connor
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Politics · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome PhD proposals in any aspect of twentieth-century Left literary culture, historical fiction, the history and geopolitics of the modern novel.
Literature, Politics
Dr Kovila Coopamootoo
Lecturer in Computer Science (Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science) · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Kovila is on the lookout for PhD students across her research interests, including across user communities and technology contexts. Interested candidates are invited to email her a CV, short research proposal and previous publications.
Computer science, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Usable privacy & security, Human-centred AI, Safe and equitable online experiences
Dr Lilly Pijnenburg Muller
Lecturer in Security Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ I welcome PhD proposals that develop critical engagements with security practices, particularly in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and broader emerging technologies used in war.
Critical War and Security Studies; International Political Sociology; Science and Technology Studies; Emerging technology
Dr Martina Zimmermann
Reader in Health Humanities and Health Sciences · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I am happy to discuss with anyone interested in undertaking doctoral research in any of these areas.
My research interests sit in the health humanities, especially aspects of health and illness in older age, including how we think about dementia and other chronic degenerative diseases and neurological conditions.
Dr Mladen Adamovic
Reader in Leadership & Global Management · King's Business School
⭐ Dr Mladen Adamovic is currently accepting new PhD students.
Management, Human Resource Management
Dr Rishita Nandagiri
Senior Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Rishita welcomes PhD proposals engaging gender, reproduction, and global health through feminist and justice-oriented approaches. She is particularly interested in projects on abortion and reproductive politics, and in research that pushes methodological boundaries through qualitative, participatory…
Biomedical and life sciences; Ethics; Sociology; Abortion; Reproduction and reproductive justice; Gender and global health; Reproductive governance and population politics; Qualitative and feminist research methods
Dr Scott James
Reader in Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ I am interested in supervising further doctoral research relating to my main research interests listed above.
Economics, Politics
Dr Simon Moody
Senior Lecturer · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Moody is interested in supervising PhD projects on any of his research interests. Please contact him with a proposal.
Conflict, History, Security
Dr Stacey Gutkowski
Reader in Peace and Conflict Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Stacey welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students with a full proposal available who seek to work in the following areas: grassroots conflict resolution and peacebuilding in the Middle East; secularism in the Middle East; religion, conflict and peacebuilding in the Middle East; faith-based hum…
Conflict, International relations, Philosophy and religion
Dr Stephan Engelkamp
Senior Lecturer in International Relations Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Engelkamp is interested in supervising PhD students in the fields of normative approaches in IR Theory and Critical Security Studies.
Conflict, International relations, Politics, Security
Dr Tomas Maltby
Reader in International Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Tomas is happy to consider PhD applications in the following areas: EU climate and energy policy; Climate denial and climate scepticism; Energy transitions.
Environment, Politics
Eleanor Crane
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Open post-doc position: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSJ367/postdoctoral-research-associate-in-quantum-many-body-systems
Natural Sciences
Elif Kalaycioglu
Lecturer in International Relations · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Elif is open to supervise PhD students with projects that correspond to her areas of research interest.
Theories of Global Politics, Global Cultural and Heritage Politics, Memory Politics, Visions and Politics of Humanity, UNESCO and World Heritage
Elisa Cavatorta
Reader in Economics and Vice Dean (International) for the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Elisa welcomes PhD applications from potential students interested in the following topics: Consequences of exposure to violence; Impact evaluation of educational and psychological interventions; Preference and beliefs formation and their heterogeneity; Anti-social behaviour prevention and attitude …
Elisa’s research focuses on the study of conflict, the formation of individual preferences and beliefs, impact evaluation of policy interventions and the development of new measurement tools for applied research. Her research addresses questions like: how and why does living in a…
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Reader in Early Modern Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome PhD applications in any of my areas of research: early modern women’s writing, poetic form, early modern literary theory, early modern and contemporary sonnets, Shakespeare’s poems.
Early modern women's writing, Poetic form, Early modern literary criticism, Sonnets: early modern and contemporary, Shakespeare's poems
Ellen Hallams
Reader in Defence Studies Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Hallams is currently unable to take on new PhD students.
Conflict, History, International relations, Politics, Security
Emrys Jones
Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students with interests in the period, particularly in topics relating to sociability, celebrity, party politics or private life.
Culture, Literature, Literature and Politics in the Eighteenth Century, The History of Celebrity, Privacy and Publicity, Alexander Pope and his Contemporaries, Periodical Culture
Evgeny Kozik
Reader · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ A PhD position is open in the group of Dr Evgeny Kozik in the development of novel computational techniques for predicting properties of correlated electrons with known and controlled error bars, and their application to the longstanding problem of unconventional and high-temperature superconductivi…
Physics
Federico Bonaddio
Professor of Modern Spanish Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Federico welcomes PhD proposals on any area of modern and contemporary Spanish culture. He has supervised projects on literature by Moroccans written in Spanish, on women writers during Spain’s transition to Democracy, and on the poetry of Miguel Hernández.
Modern Spanish fiction, poetry and film. Federico has published on 20th-century Spanish culture, including the poetry of Federico García Lorca and popular Spanish cinema. He is generally interested in metatextual devices and difficulties inherent in creative processes. He is curr…
Francisco Mazzola
Lecturer in Middle East Studies Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Mazzola is currently not taking on any PhD students.
Security, Politics, Politics and security in Lebanon, the Middle East, and Latin America, Police, policing, and police reform, Areas of Limited Statehood
Gabriel Leon-Ablan
Professor of Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Gabriel welcomes applications from potential students interested in social unrest (including riots and protests), social order and historical political economy.
Social unrest; Riots and protests; Social order; Historical political economy; Slavery
George Benjamin
Henry Purcell Professor of Composition · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ George would be interested in working with PhD students in the field of composition.
Music, Composition
Gerard Watts
Professor in Theoretical Physics · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ Gerard currently has two PhD students and is very happy to discuss possible research projects with interested students.
Conformal and topological field theory, Integrable quantum field theory, Infinite dimensional algebras and their applications, Numerical and algebraic approaches to renormalisation group flows
Greg Kennedy
Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Professor Kennedy is unable to take on new PhD students. Exceptions may be made if a proposal/candidate appears exceptional in terms of their relationship to his specific fields of study.
Conflict, History, International relations, Policy, Politics, Security, Maritime History, Imperial History, Diplomatic History, Strategic Thought, American Foreign Policy, Intelligence
Hana Chockler
Professor of Computer Science · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ I am looking for students and postdoctoral researchers for a variety of projects related to ReX and extending ReX to other domains.
Computer science; Explainable AI; Actual causality; Formal verification and synthesis
Huajie (Lily) Jin
Senior Lecturer in Health Economics · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Lily welcomes PhD applications in applied or methodological health economic evaluation, especially those focused on the role of economics in guiding decisions throughout the development and implementation of healthcare technologies.
Psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience; Health Technology Assessment; Cost-effectiveness/utility analysis; Budget impact analysis; Cost-of-illness study; Health economic modelling (e.g., decision tree, Markov model, and discrete event simulation); Whole disease modelling; Trial-…
Ian Gooderson
Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ I am currently unable to take on new PhD Students
Conflict, History, International relations, Politics, Security
Ioannis Bakolis
Professor of Public Mental Health and Statistics · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ I currently supervise 3-4 MSc students per year for their final dissertations, and 4 full time PhD students. I am willing to accept new PhD students. Interested students should contact me with an idea of their project proposal in the first instance, with an indication of any potential funding suppor…
Air pollution and mental health over the life course; Extreme heat and mental health; Covid-19 response; Natural experiments; Hybrid studies
Jack McDonald
Senior Lecturer in War Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr McDonald is not taking on more PhD students at this time.
Conflict and security
Jake Gasson
AEP Lecturer in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Jake is happy to supervise PhD students in the following fields: Morale and Combat Motivation; The First World War (particularly beyond the Western Front); The Second World War
History; Conflict and security; History of War; Morale and Combat Motivation; Mobilisation; First World War; Second World War
James Millington
Professor of Environmental Geography · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ James welcomes inquiries from excellent candidates wishing to pursue research that investigates: Ecological processes and human-environment interactions in forest and agricultural landscapes; Innovative uses of agent-based modelling to understand physical and/or social geographical systems.
Geography
Jan Knoerich
Reader in China and the Global Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Jan is interested in supervising PhD students on subjects related to China's financial internationalisation and China's outward foreign direct investment.
International development, Policy
Jenny Driscoll
Professor of Children's Rights · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Jenny is happy to consider applications on a range of areas related to Children's Rights Child Protection Multi-agency child safeguarding
Child & Family, Education, Law, Policy
Jeroen Gunning
Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and Conflict Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Professor Gunning welcomes PhD applications concerned with political mobilisation and contestation, political violence (whether state or non-state, including domestic and international counter-terrorism regimes), the role of religion and secular ideologies in contestation and political violence, the…
Political mobilisation and contestation in the Middle East (esp. using social movement theory); Causes, patterns and effects of political violence (state and non-state); Geographies of everyday peace and security practices; State effects and the everyday state in the Middle East;…
Jessica Hamer
Research Associate · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Hamer would be happy to supervise PhD students around the subject of diversity and inclusion in STEM education.
Dr Hamer's research explores the barriers young people face when it comes to subject choice, especially in STEM subjects. She has worked on numerous projects looking at diversity and inclusion in secondary physics education. Dr Hamer is part of the SCARI computing project (Subjec…
Jicheng Gong
Reader in Engineering · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ His group encourages students with strong background of materials and/or mechanics to apply for PhD studies. CSC students are welcome.
Engineering
Micro– and Meso–Scale Mechanical Testing of Advanced Materials
Fatigue Tests
Precise Micro laser machining
Insitu SEM, EBSD, DIC and Thermal Imaging Characterisation Techniques
Johan Andersson
Reader in Urban Cultural Geography · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Johan welcomes PhD applications on topics spanning across urban, cultural and social geography.
Geography, Queer nightlife, Cinema and the city
John Narayan
Senior Lecturer in European and International Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ John welcomes doctoral applications in any area related to his research interests.
Racial capitalism, Race, racism and anti-racism, Globalisation and democracy, Imperialism and anti-imperialism, Social and political theory
Jonathan Fennell
Professor of the History of War and Society · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Professor Fennell is happy to supervise PhD students in the following broad subject areas: The Second World War, War and Socio-Political Change, War and Public Philosophy, Twentieth Century British and Commonwealth History, Strategy, Morale and Motivation, Military Doctrine.
Conflict, History, International relations, Policy, Politics, Security
Joseph Baines
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Joseph welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any of his research interests.
Economics, Politics
José Ciro Martínez
Lecturer in International Development (Politics) · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ José welcomes inquiries from prospective graduate students interested in the contemporary politics of the Middle East and North Africa. He is particularly interested in proposals that explore theories of sovereignty, resistance and state power, as well as those empirically concerned with food and dr…
Politics, International development
Karin A King
Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management Education · King's Business School
⭐ Dr King is not currently accepting new PhD students.
Human Resource Management
Karishma Banga
Lecturer in Digital Economy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ She is happy to supervise new PhD students on topics related to digital industrialisation, digital governance, AI, platformisation, and the future of work in developing countries.
Digital trade and industrial policy; Digital value chains and structural transformation; Automation and the future of work; Political economy of digital and data governance
Katie Meehan
Professor of Environmental Justice · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Katie welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students who share her research interests above. When contacting Katie as a prospective supervisor, please include a current CV, a concise description of your potential thesis topic, and brief explanation of why you would like to study at King’s.
Environment
Kriti Kapila
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Law · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Kriti welcomes PhD applications within her research areas and cognate topics.
Anthropology of the State, Law and Anthropology, Ethnographic Theory, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Anthropology of the Digital, Contemporary India
Kélina Gotman
Professor of Performance and the Humanities · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I am interested in hearing from potential research students working on the history and philosophy of theatre and performance, including dance; topics involving science, nature and performance, including medicine and psychiatry; projects on cultural and/or critical theory, including those engaging wi…
Theatre, dance and performance history and philosophy, emphasising transdisciplinary archival research; Cultural and critical practices of writing and the (bio)politics of form; Critical studies of science and medicine, including psychiatry, neuroscience and ‘health’ discourse; H…
Liliana Bounegru
Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Culture and Society · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Liliana welcomes PhD applications related to the above.
Her research interests include intersections between the following topics: digital media, digital culture, digital journalism, data journalism, climate change, misinformation, and the following approaches: inventive methods for new media research, digital methods for social and c…
Lisa Jane Brighton
Lecturer in Applied Health Research · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ If you are considering applying for one of our PhD programmes and are looking for potential supervisors, please complete our Microsoft Form. Our Postgraduate Research (PGR) Team will contact potential supervisors on your behalf and will update you once they have received a response.
Palliative care; Psychological and social aspects of living with respiratory conditions/symptoms; Relationship between physical and mental health in people with life-limiting illness; Rehabilitation in people with life-limiting illness; Development and evaluation of complex inter…
Luke Brown
Senior Lecturer in Earth Observation · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Luke particularly welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students interested in the areas of research listed above.
Biophysical and biochemical variable retrieval, In situ sensing techniques, Optical Earth observation, Remote sensing of vegetation health and condition, Satellite product calibration/validation, Uncertainty evaluation
Maia King
Lecturer in Economics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr King is not currently accepting new PhD students.
economics of governance institutions and social networks; public finance and budgets; climate policy and forest governance; the use of evidence in policymaking; and the responsiveness of policymaking institutions, including participatory approaches
Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer
Professor of War Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Considering PhD supervision (not for the 2025-2026 academic year)
Conflict, Security, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear Strategy, Nuclear Proliferation, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Cheating and compliance, High North
Margaryta Klymak
Lecturer · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Margaryta would be happy to supervise PhD students in applied microeconomics.
Economics, International development, Development economics, Public economics, Political economy, Public procurement, Child and forced labour
Maria Cotofan
Lecturer in Economics and Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Maria is happy to supervise students interested in applied microeconomics, labour economics, or behavioural economics. Some of the topics that Maria is interested in include (but are not limited to): The impact of incentives on behaviour (with a focus on non-pecuniary aspects). The effects of early …
Labour economics; Experimental and behavioural economics; Policy evaluation
Mark Eccleston-Turner
Reader in Global Health Law · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Mark welcomes PhD applications in any field relevant to his expertise. He is an experienced doctoral supervisor.
International law and infectious diseases; Pathogen sharing and equitable access to vaccines; Global health justice; The securitisation of health; Pandemic preparedness; Health law
Mark Langan
Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Mark welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any of his research interests.
Policy, Politics, Political Economy of Development, Africa in the Global Economy, Africa – Europe Relations since 1957, EU Trade and Development Policies, Private Sector Development
Matthew Kempton
Reader in Neuroimaging Psychiatry · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ If you are interested in doing a PhD with Matthew do get in touch. He currently has PhD projects available to apply to via the MRC DTP studentships and King's China Council Scholarships.
Mental Health
Maud Borie
Senior Lecturer in Environment, Science & Society · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Maud welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students interested in the topics above. She is particularly keen to supervise projects related to: Biodiversity controversies (e.g. Contested Wetlands, Rewilding, etc). Interaction between environmental knowledges, and Green finance.
Geography
Mauricio Najarro
Lecturer in Health Inequalities · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Mauricio is happy to supervise PhD projects related to his geographical and conceptual areas of expertise conducted by passionate researchers committed to rigorous ethnographic method as well as creative and critical approaches to the study of medicine between science and religion.
Sociology, Nonsecular Medical Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society, Queer Studies
Mehmet Mars Seven
Lecturer in Economics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Mehmet Mars welcomes PhD students interested in game theory and its applications across areas such as sports, political economy, artificial intelligence, fairness, co-operation, and conflict. Prospective students are encouraged to contact him via e-mail after reviewing the information available at h…
Game theory, Fairness, Political economy
Michael Chadwick
Professor of Ecology and Environmental Science · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Michael is interested in receiving enquiries from potential PhD students on: Environmental Science of tidally-influenced and intermittent aquatic systems; Large river ecology; Spatial arrangement of habitats and reaches in aquatic ecosystems; Catchment-scale drivers of ecosystem function; Environmen…
Geography
Michael Kerr
Professor of Conflict Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ He is interested in receiving proposals from prospective PhD students on Northern Ireland, Anglo-Irish relations, and civil war in Lebanon and Syria.
Conflict, Security, Conflict Resolution, Consociational Democracy, Northern Ireland, Middle East, Lebanon, Syria
Natasha Kuhrt
Senior Lecturer in International Peace & Security · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Kuhrt is accepting prospective PhD students in the following areas: Russian foreign and security policy in general (in particular Russia/Asia with an emphasis on China); Russian narratives on history/memory; international law with an emphasis on UN Security Council practice, R2P and peacekeeping;…
Conflict, Security, Russian and Eurasian security/foreign policy especially in Asia, International law; Humanitarian Intervention and Responsibility to Protect, Nationalism and identity; populism, Regions and Regionalism
Ned Barker
Lecturer in Digital Culture and Technology · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Ned welcomes PhD applications related to the broad interests above.
Technology and the Body, Novel Biohybrid Systems, Human Augmentation, Interdisciplinary Approaches, Collaborative and Sensory Ethnography
Neil Vickers
Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I am happy to talk to anyone interested in working on a PhD in any of these research fields.
Literature, health humanities, history of the medical/health humanities, history of the Psy disciplines (especially the British psychoanalytic tradition) and their relation to concepts of health and illness
Niall O'Flaherty
Reader in the History of European Political Thought · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Niall welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any of his research interests.
History, Politics, The Intellectual History of Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain, European Political Ideas
Nick Lloyd
Professor of Modern Warfare · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Nick is happy to supervise PhD students in all aspects of modern military history, including the First and Second World Wars, colonial warfare and air power. He is also interested in the changing nature of British rule in South Asia, including the history of the Indian Civil Service.
Conflict, History, Security
Oguz A. Acar
Professor of Marketing & Innovation · King's Business School
⭐ Are you currently accepting PhD students? Yes
Marketing
Olivia Cheung
Lecturer in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Cheung welcomes applications for PhD topics related to her research interests.
Dr Cheung is working on research projects on Chinese politics and foreign policy, international orders, and the comparative study of ideology, strategy, and statecraft. Her research interests include:
- Politics and foreign policy of China
- Rising powers
- International orders
-…
Oscar Marín
Professor of Neuroscience · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Training and mentoring the next generation of leading neuroscientists is a top priority of our lab
Biomedical and life sciences; Neuroscience
Pankhuri Agarwal
Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations · King's Business School
⭐ Dr Agarwal is currently accepting new PhD students.
Human Resource Management
Paul Stokes
Professor of Mood Disorders and Psychopharmacology · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Professor Stokes welcomes enquiries regarding PhD opportunities.
Mental Health, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Bipolar Disorders, Major Depressive Disorder, Neuroimaging, Psychopharmacology, Clinical Trials, Addictions, Cognitive impairment, Sleep, LGBTQ+ Mental Health
Pauline Blistène
Lecturer in Strategic Communication · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Pauline is happy to offer PhD supervision in the following broad areas: Spy fiction, Theoretical foundations of intelligence, Disinformation, Propaganda, France & French intelligence.
Conflict, Security, Spy fiction, Public perceptions of intelligence, Secrecy, Disinformation, Conspiracy & conspiracy theories, France & French intelligence
Pavlos Avlamis
Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language & Literature · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I am happy to supervise PhD students working in any of my areas of interest outlined above.
Classics; Hellenistic and Imperial Greek literature and culture; Ancient popular culture; Ancient wisdom traditions and fable
Peter Adamson
Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Professor Adam's is not currently accepting applications to supervise research students.
Late ancient philosophy, especially Neoplatonism; Arabic philosophy; Medieval philosophy
Philip Kirby
Senior Lecturer in History of Education · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr. Kirby would be happy to supervise PhD students in the following areas: history of education, education policy, children’s culture.
Education, Sociology, Communication
Priyanka Basu
Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Priyanka welcomes PhD proposals in the following areas of her expertise: Folk performances and questions of authenticity; Performance histories and the politics of archives; Gender and Labour in South Asia and its Diasporas; Intersections of Print Histories, Performance and Films; Cultural Movements…
Priyanka is a South Asian Studies scholar working at the intersections of literary, cultural and performative traditions, particularly in Bangladesh and India. She is currently completing her first monograph—The Cultural Politics of Folk: Transnational Histories in India and Bang…
Professor Adrian Blau
Professor of Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Adrian is interested in supervising PhDs on areas within his research expertise, especially:
- democratic theory and practice, including deliberative democracy;
- history of political thought, especially the work of Thomas Hobbes;
- corruption;
- rationality, irrationality, and post-truth politics;…
Politics
Rafie Cecilia
Lecturer in CMCI, Museum & Gallery Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Rafie welcomes applications for PhD projects related to any of these research interests, and specifically encourages people who identify as disabled to get in touch for support at every stage of the application process.
Inclusive technology and creative digital innovation practice, especially in relation to museums and collections, including AI applications, 3D printing and modelling, accessible software, wayfinding & navigation. Artificial Intelligence as assistive technology in the cultural se…
Ragnar Löfstedt
Professor of Risk Management · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Ragnar welcomes future PhD students looking to research in the following areas: Better regulation in the European Union, Better regulation in the UK, Comparison of present environmental regulatory structures US-UK, Risk communication in a post trust world, Implementation of regulations in a post tru…
Policy
Raphael Cunha
Lecturer in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Raphael is interested in supervising PhD students who want to use quantitative methods to study the politics of economic globalisation. Please get in touch before applying.
International and comparative political economy, Politics of financial globalisation, Emerging/developing markets
Rebecca Rhead
Lecturer in Society and Mental Health · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ She is particularly interested in supervising PhD students working on quantitative projects related to ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in mental health outcomes, service access and health system equity.
quantitative social science, population mental health, social determinants of mental health, health inequalities, ethnic inequalities in healthcare, discrimination in health services, mental health service use, social and community mental health
Rikke Amundsen
Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Rikke is available to supervise PhDs in areas related to her research interests (see above). To enquire about her supervision availability, potential applicants should email her a draft PhD proposal of no more than 1500 words and a short CV.
Digital Intimacy, Feminist Media Studies, Digital Sociology, Gender and Digital Culture, Digital Sexual Culture
Roberta Comunian
Professor of Creative Economies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Roberta is not currently accepting PhD applications.
Arts, Creative, Culture
Robin Douglass
Professor of Political Theory · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Robin would welcome PhD applicants interested in political theory/history of political thought, especially focusing on: History of modern political thought, especially 17-18th century; Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Mandeville, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Sophie de Grouchy, Judith Shklar…
Politics
Rod Dacombe
Reader in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Rod is happy to consider PhD applications in the following areas: Democratic theory, Participatory and deliberative democracy, Digital democracy, misinformation and conspiracy theories, Civic participation, Democratic innovations
Politics
Rohan Borschmann
Reader in Mental Health Care & Research; Associate Professor · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Rohan offers PhD supervision for mental health research topics relating to: Adolescent mental health; Self-harm and suicide prevention and epidemiology; The intersection of the criminal justice and health systems.
Mental Health; Adolescent mental health; The health of people in contact with the criminal justice system; Self-harm and suicide prevention; The health of people experiencing homelessness.
Rory Sheehan
Senior Clinical Lecturer · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Dr Sheehan welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students.
Disability; Intellectual (learning) disability and autism; Interface between intellectual disability, neurodevelopmental disorders, mental illness, and offending behaviour; Forensic psychiatry; Health inequities; Health services research
Rosie Campbell
Professor of Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Rosie is interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of public opinion, political behaviour, political representation and gender and politics.
Politics
Rowan Gard
Lecturer in Human Geography and Sustainability (Education) · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Rowan would be happy to supervise PhD students in any of the following areas: Artistic and spiritual understandings of climate change; Nature-focused education; Sustainability-influenced behaviour modification, and education for sustainability more generally; The politics and economics of climate ad…
Climate change and environmental degradation responses, especially in Oceania and the UK; Education for sustainability; Deep sea mining and the blue economy in the Pacific; Climate change activism and environmental campaigning; Globalization in and of Oceania; Art as climate chan…
Roxana Bratu
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Roxana welcomes applications for PhD students in the following subject areas: Corruption, Anti-corruption: policies, politics and practices, Integrity and ethics in public administration, Artificial intelligence – ethics, challenges, public policies and regulations.
Policy, Digital
Samuel Greene
Professor of Russian Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Sam is open to supervising PhD projects on any of these themes, particularly with reference to Russia and the post-Soviet region.
Politics
Sanchayan Banerjee
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics and Public Policy · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Sanchayan is open and available to supervise doctoral research students in areas of environmental policy, health policy and charities using behavioural insights and experiments. Please reach out to him if you are interested to apply.
Behavioural economics, environmental economics, experimental economics, public policy
Sarah Birch
Professor of Political Science · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Sarah Birch specialises in two areas: electoral integrity and comparative environmental politics. She welcomes PhD applications in these fields.
Politics
Sarah Cooper
Professor of Film Studies · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Sarah welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any of her research interests.
Media; History of film theory; Film and philosophy; Critical plant studies and film
Shiraz Maher
Reader in Non-State Actors · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Please note, Dr Maher is not currently considering new PhD proposals.
Conflict; History; Security; Contemporary Syria (The Civil War and post-war transition); Contemporary Saudi Arabia (Vision 2030 and legal reforms); Non-state Actors in the Middle East (particularly their use of violence and governance models); Islamic movements (especially jihadi…
Sian Oram
Professor of Trauma and Recovery · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Prospective PhD and Visiting Research Students should contact Professor Oram directly to discuss.
Human trafficking and modern slavery; Domestic and sexual violence; Mental health policy
Simon Scott
Professor in Analysis · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ He is in the process of building-up a new geometric analysis group at King's, an important research area internationally but quite unrepresented in the UK, and so would welcome enquiries from prospective post-docs, PhD students and collaborators interested in being a part of this new group.
Mathematics; Traces of fourier integral operators; Geometric analysis; Geometry; Lie theory
Siobhán McIlvanney
Professor of French and Francophone Women's Writing · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ I am very happy to be contacted by prospective PhD students whose research interests coincide with my own.
Culture, Languages, Literature
Sorana-Cristina Jude
Lecturer in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Jude welcomes PhD applications in any of these areas.
Conflict, Security, Gender equality (SDG 5)
Stephen Lovell
Professor of Modern History · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Professor Lovell would welcome applications from research students interested in working on: Any aspect of Russian history, 1750 to the present
History; Cultural and Social History of 19th and 20th Century Russia; Voting and Political Culture in the Russian Empire and USSR
Sundeep Lidher
Lecturer in Black and Asian British History (post-1800) · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Sundeep welcomes research students interested in working on any of the above areas.
History
Thomas Furse
Lecturer in Defence Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Furse is open to supervising PhD students in US foreign and security policy (contemporary and post-1945), world order & hegemony, history of counterinsurgency, diplomatic and military histories of the Americas.
Conflict, Security, International relations; US foreign, defense, and security policy; Hegemony studies; History of doctrine and the US Army; History of ideas; International Relations
Tim Benbow
Professor of Strategic Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Tim Benbow is happy to offer PhD supervision in the following subject areas:
Naval history and strategy; Second World War and post-1945
UK Strategy and defence policy; Second World War, post,-1945 and contemporary
Conflict, History, Policy, Security, Naval Strategy and History (especially naval aviation and amphibious warfare) - Second World War and after, UK strategy and defence policy, Warfare since 1945, Changing character of war and future warfare
Tom Matthews
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Geography · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Tom Matthews is not recruiting for expedition members. Please beware of scam emails claiming otherwise.
Glacier-climate interactions, specialising in the numerical modelling of glacier melt; Measuring the planet's most extreme weather; The physical drivers of weather and climate extremes (heatwaves, tropical/extra-tropical cyclones); Compound weather and climate extremes; Climate c…
Tom McAdams
Professor of Psychopathology & Behavioural Genetics · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
⭐ Tom is happy to consider acting as supervisor/mentor to postdoctoral researchers with research interests that overlap with his own, and would be willing to assist during the fellowship application process. Please contact him via email if you wish to discuss possibilities
Psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience; Development and use of genetically informative methods to understand the aetiology of psychopathology; Intergenerational transmission of psychopathology; Causal inference; Behavioural genetics; Structural equation modelling; Gene-environme…
Tugba Bozcaga
Lecturer in Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ She welcomes doctoral applications in comparative political economy and political economy of development, particularly students keen to work in the research areas listed above and employ mixed methods or quantitative research methods in their studies.
Political economy of development, Bureaucracy and state capacity, Distributive politics, Education politics, Social welfare
Udit Bhatia
Lecturer in Political Theory · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Udit welcomes PhD supervision in the areas of contemporary democratic theory, constitutional thought, history of political thought and democratic institutions, political parties, and comparative political theory.
Udit's research focuses on normative democratic theory, constitutionalism, and political epistemology. Some of his recent papers have examined the legal and normative status of political parties, asking how their internal rules should be configured. In other work, he has engaged …
Virginia Crisp
Reader in Media Industries and Cultures · Faculty of Arts and Humanities
⭐ Virginia welcomes PhD students related to any of her research interests.
Culture, Media, Media distribution, Copyright infringement (media piracy), Media Industries (esp. film and games), Gatekeepers and Cultural Intermediaries
Vivienne Jabri
Professor of International Politics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Professor Jabri will consider applications on: The psychosocial and socio-material aspects of war; Critical thought on injury/harm; Global Justice
International relations, Politics, Security, Conflict, International political theory, Critical theory, War, Global justice, Art and the Political
Walter Ladwig III
Reader in International Relations · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Dr Ladwig is not currently taking on any new PhD students.
Conflict; International relations; Security; US foreign policy and defence politics; South Asian security; Irregular warfare and counterinsurgency; The geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific; Military strategy; Legislative behavior in developing democracies
Yabin Liu
Lecturer in Engineering · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ The group is actively seeking new members, including PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and visiting researchers. Several fully funded PhD studentships and postdoctoral positions are expected to be available, with start dates between early 2027 and late 2028. Prospective candidates and potentia…
Engineering; Wind and tidal energy; Turbomachinery and aerial/underwater vehicles in future transport; Flow control with innovative structural designs; Fluid-structure interaction and bio-inspired fluid mechanics; Vortex dynamics and coherent turbulence structures; Vortex-induced…
Yansha Deng
Professor of Intelligent Communications Systems · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
⭐ I am currently recruiting international PhD students for departmental studentship, and also recruiting students applying for other PhD scholarships in KCL: 1. King’s NMES Faculty PhD scholarship (International studentships) 2. King’s International PGR Scholarships 3. King’s-China Scholarship Council…
Goal-oriented Semantic Communications, Wireless AI and Edge AI, Network for Agent AI and LLM, Molecular Communication
Yonatan Berman
Senior Lecturer in Economics · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
⭐ Yonatan will consider supervising PhD students interested in public economics and political economy, with a focus on inequality.
His research interests lie in the intersection of public and labour economics with a focus on quantitative methods. He is mainly interested in the evolution of income and wealth distributions, social mobility, and their inter-relationship, empirically and theoretically.
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Abiodun Alao
Professor of African Studies · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
International development, International relations, Conflict, Security, Policy
Adam C. Sedgwick
Lecturer in Chemistry · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
Molecular imaging, Medicinal chemistry, Organic/inorganic synthesis, Chemical biology
Adinarayana Bellamkonda
Research Associate · Faculty of Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences
Chemistry
Aiko Ikemura Amaral
Lecturer in International Development · Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy
Sociology, Politics
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