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PhD title: Demanding Change: Sex, HIV Prevention, and Participatory Methods in Uganda
Supervisor: Dr Jessica Johnson and Dr Benedetta Rossi
PhD African Studies and Anthropology

PhD title: Modernisation, Bureaucracy and Traditional rule in Ghana: The case of the Otumfuo Education Fund 
Supervisor: Dr Kate Skinner and Dr Insa Nolte
PhD African Studies

PhD Title: Les plaisirs démodés: the portrayal of “anachronistic heroes” in French comedy cinema
Supervisors: Professor Kate Ince and Dr Andrew Watts
PhD French Studies

PhD title: An Analysis of the Theology of Experience as the major distinctive of Pentecostalism
Supervisors: Professor Allan Anderson and Professor Wolfgang Vondey
PhD Theology and Religion

PhD Title: Post independence disillusionment with African Politics: Postcolonial Francophone literary voices
Supervisors: Dr Berny Sebe and Dr Emma Wagstaff
PhD French Studies

PhD title: Queer Joy, Resistance and Community in Nairobi

Supervisor: Dr Jessica Johnson (Department of African Studies and Anthropology) and Dr Emma Foster (Department of Political Science and International Studies)

PhD African Studies and Anthropology

Phd title: Francophone African women’s fiction through the prism of Soviet Russian translation
Supervisors: Dr Natalya Rulyova and Professor Helen Abbott
PhD in Translation Studies - Modern Languages

PhD title: Activism and Gender within the Arts of Contemporary Nigeria
Supervisor: Dr Juliet Gilbert and Dr Gregory Salter
PhD African Studies and Anthropology

PhD title: Transformation of hierarchies in Western Ethiopia: The case of the Mao
Supervisors: Dr Benedetta Rossi  and Dr Marco Di Nunzio
PhD African Studies

Dr Synda Obaji is an Assistant Professor at Birmingham Law School. Her research relates to environmental justice and sustainability, environmental governance issues, and human rights; and her work on Internal Displacement in Nigeria has been cited by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

PhD title: Styling success: ICT, design and public performance among technology entrepreneurs in Accra, Ghana
Supervisor: Dr Marco di Nunzio and Dr M Bolt 
PhD African Studies

PhD title: Colonial Anxieties, Local Debates and Struggles over 'Prostitution' in Southern Nigeria, 1890-1960.
Supervisor: Dr Insa Nolte and Dr Benedetta Rossi
PhD African Studies

PhD title: Class experiences among international students from the SADC region studying in South Africa
Supervisor:  Dr Kate Skinner, Dr Jessica Johnson and Dr Maxim Bolt
PhD African Studies

PhD title: Conservation, Landscape and Belonging on the Shores of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe.
Supervisor: Dr Reginald Cline-Cole, Dr Jessica Johnson, and Dr Maxim Bolt
PhD African Studies and Anthropology