PhD Social Work Research Scholarship

Project: Transition to Adulthood for Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers and Refugee Young People

Network: Social Work and Social Change: Crossing Boundaries

Supervisors: Jim Wade, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York
Dr Majella Kilkey, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield

Applicants for this funded studentship must also submit an online application to the Department of Social Policy and Social Work in order to be eligible, before completing the ESRC student application form.

Any queries about the application process should be directed to Dr Mark Hardy: mark.hardy@york.ac.uk.

This project is part of a social work network of studentships, each of which will address an issue where citizens and service users encounter boundaried responses by the state. The project will explore the strategies used by young people to negotiate the transition from public care to adulthood, taking account of the uncertainties arising from the asylum determination process. It will examine the social network resources employed by young people, in order to assist them, (including support from both informal and professional relationships), and assess how these may be strengthened. It will develop the conceptual and policy implications for the fields of forced migration, social policy and social work.
Applicants will probably have a professional qualification in social work.

Deadline for applications: 4pm on 17th February 2012

Contact details for further information on project: Jim Wade 

 
White Rose Doctoral Training Centre: Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York

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