Dr Chris Beckett
Care proceedings and what happens to children during, before and after these lengthy decision-making processes, discourse and reality in the social work field.
Dr Marian Brandon
Serious child maltreatment, family support, interagency working; children living at home who are on the threshold of out of home care, and the impact of parent child interaction in these circumstances; implications for policy and practice.
Dr Jonathan Dickens
Child care social work and the law; social work and social policy; the international dimensions of professional social work, especially child care work.
Dr Jane Dodsworth
Issues and preventive strategies in child sexual exploitation, particularly the abuse of children & young people through prostitution; turning points and survival strategies of women involved in prostitution, particularly those entering under the age of 18; analysis of serious case reviews.
Dr Elsbeth Neil
Adoption (inc. domestic, intercountry, step-parent, post adoption contact, adoption support services, adoption reunion); children in care, including perspectives of parents; supporting families at risk of coming into care; divorce, and contact after divorce.
Example PhD project outlines: 1. Stepparent adoptions: contact and openness in relation to children and their biological fathers 2. Postadoption contact: the use of e-mail and social networking sites in children's contact with their birth families 3. Adoptive parents attitudes about postadoption contact: the impact of adoption agency preparation
Professor Margaret O'Brien
Fatherhood and work-family policy; fathers, parenting and family support; children, families and communities; children’s well-being.
Professor Gillian Schofield
Fostering, adoption, residential care, adolescents in care, contact, leaving care. Aspects of family life such as teenage pregnancy, disability.
Example PhD project outlines: Experiences of young people making the transition from residential care to adulthood - risk and protective factors in their relationships; Fostering infants- the use of video feedback to promote sensitive caregiving; Contact for infants in foster care : the impact on infants and carers
PhD Studentships
The School of Social Work and Psychology is seeking to recruit high calibre candidates to Psychology PhD studentships. Please click here for further information.
Care proceedings and what happens to children during, before and after these lengthy decision-making processes, discourse and reality in the social work field.
Dr Marian Brandon
Serious child maltreatment, family support, interagency working; children living at home who are on the threshold of out of home care, and the impact of parent child interaction in these circumstances; implications for policy and practice.
Dr Jonathan Dickens
Child care social work and the law; social work and social policy; the international dimensions of professional social work, especially child care work.
Dr Jane Dodsworth
Issues and preventive strategies in child sexual exploitation, particularly the abuse of children & young people through prostitution; turning points and survival strategies of women involved in prostitution, particularly those entering under the age of 18; analysis of serious case reviews.
Dr Elsbeth Neil
Adoption (inc. domestic, intercountry, step-parent, post adoption contact, adoption support services, adoption reunion); children in care, including perspectives of parents; supporting families at risk of coming into care; divorce, and contact after divorce.
Example PhD project outlines: 1. Stepparent adoptions: contact and openness in relation to children and their biological fathers 2. Postadoption contact: the use of e-mail and social networking sites in children's contact with their birth families 3. Adoptive parents attitudes about postadoption contact: the impact of adoption agency preparation
Professor Margaret O'Brien
Fatherhood and work-family policy; fathers, parenting and family support; children, families and communities; children’s well-being.
Professor Gillian Schofield
Fostering, adoption, residential care, adolescents in care, contact, leaving care. Aspects of family life such as teenage pregnancy, disability.
Example PhD project outlines: Experiences of young people making the transition from residential care to adulthood - risk and protective factors in their relationships; Fostering infants- the use of video feedback to promote sensitive caregiving; Contact for infants in foster care : the impact on infants and carers
PhD Studentships
The School of Social Work and Psychology is seeking to recruit high calibre candidates to Psychology PhD studentships. Please click here for further information.
