The School of Social Work and Social Policy PhD Supervisors

Research Areas of Interest: 

• Children in/leaving care; Social Work Education
• Qualitative Methodologies

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Research Areas of interest:  

• Use of online learning in Higher Education
• Digital Pedagogies
• Human Services Organisations  

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Research Areas of Interest:  

• Implementing public policy and practice
• Protecting children & children’s rights and participation
• Regulation and workforce issues in child protection and health systems (inspection, performance management and performance measurement)
• Complexity informed methodologies: systems approaches & realist evaluation
• Signs of Safety
• Child contact 

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Research Areas of interest:  

• Criminal Justice
• Probation
• Youth Justice
• Care/Justice intersection

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Research Areas of interest:  

• Social politics of reproduction policy
• Fertility and Reproduction
• Policy science research in area of reproductive health

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Research Areas of interest:  

• Refugee Policy
• Migration and Children
• Migration and the Family

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Research Areas of interest:  

• Social aspects of ageing (ageism, work and gender) and Intergenerational Friendship
• Health Policy Analysis
• Grounded Theory Methodology

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Research Areas of interest:  

• Disability Studies
• Inclusive Research
• Participatory Action Research
• Poststructuralism

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Research Areas on interest:  

• Child protection and welfare
• Disability studies and Disability theory
• Sociological theory 

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Research Areas of Interest:

• Social inclusion of people with disabilities
• particularly on the areas of education
• community living, and research participation

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Research Areas of interest:

• Domestic violence and abuse, with a particular interest and methodological expertise in engaging children in the research process.

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Research Areas of interest:

• Marginalised youth and adult populations, homelessness and housing exclusion; drug use and drug treatment.

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Research Areas of interest:

• Domestic and international adoption law, policy and practice
• children’s rights & the voice of the child
• mature student learners & equal access to education.

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Research Areas of interest:

• Social Work in Health Care
• bereavement
• trrauma informed practice; reflective practice.

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Research Areas of interest:

• Sociology of ageing and the human life course, including analyses of social policies and welfare states; grounded theory method.

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My main research interest is the sociology of organisations and especially organisational approaches to policy issues in the context of global challenges such as climate change and inequalities, governance (polycentricity and co-production), community engagement and resilience, and sustainability.

Research Areas of interest:  

Welfare and work; understanding lived experiences in the context of welfare recipiency, focusing on the processes and effects of welfare conditionality.  

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Research Areas of interest:  

Feminist social work; critical social work and social justice perspectives; health promotion; the social determinants of health approaches.  

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Research Areas of interest:  

• Global health;
• HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights
• inclusion health; the regulation of sexuality and other contested policy domains

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Research Areas of interest:  

• Young Adults and Minority Groups in State Care, Including Adoption
• Use of digital technologies, including Generative AI in social work practice

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