Methodological: doing research with children; participation of 'hard to reach'/disabled children in research topics/populations (children with disabilities or chronic illnesses and their families). Theoretical: transactional model of stress and coping

The private rented sector; housing in rural areas; community involvement and urban regeneration; second homes and mobile homes community involvement and urban regeneration

Looked after children, family support and adoption; policy on care, adoption and family support

Disability, particularly learning disability; inclusive and participative research methods and knowledge creation; willing to consider most social work (or community care policy) theses where there is some interesting methodology or approach

Comparative social policy; quantitative methodology; family policy; social security; work/family life balance; the gender division of labour; time use; employment over the life course; pensioner poverty; child and female poverty; family change and fertility

Funding and organisation of long-term care; adult social care; particularly comparative studies; current developments in policy and practice in English adult social care; informal care; disability; social gerontology

Young people, crime, participation, community development, evaluation and policy development; social enterprise

Mental health, work with offenders, judgements and decision making in practice, risk, social theory and social work,approaches to developing the knowledge base for practice

Family support; child protection; therapeutic work with children; gender and social work with children and families; adoption and fostering; social work in statutory settings

Globalisation and social policy, corporate influence on policy, political economy of welfare, welfare impacts of the global financial crisis

Gender and crime, child abuse and child protection, violence against women

The social (policy) implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs); the (social) policy making process; and comparative social policy/the comparative political economy of welfare

Quantitative analysis of individual level large scale data sets on themes around family and children in developed societies

Professional communication; mental health; evaluation of social work education; the dynamics of groups

Public policy analysis; comparative political economy; politics and policies of welfare state and labour market reform; theories of welfare state development and restructuring; social security issues in middle and low-income countries; the dependent variable problem of comparative welfare state research; pooled time series, cross section regression analysis; fuzzy-set ideal type analysis; survival analysis

Policy analysis; comparative welfare states; housing policy (UK); comparative housing policy; housing and social theory

Gender, to include masculinity; race and ethnicity, including issues to do with identity; hybridity and the increasing interrelationship with religion; mid-life, later life and the ageing process, including critical gerontology; globalisation and migration; qualitative research methods

Health inequalities; Intersection of social class, sexuality, gender and health; Disadvantage and young people's health; Mental health; Qualitative research methodologies; Global development of end of life care.

Disability and chronic illness, in particular disability issues related to families with disabled/chronically ill children and young people (parents, disabled children/YP, siblings and other extended family members); concepts of quality in services for families with disabled/chronically ill children; qualitative research methods; interviews, focus group work, etc. in particular working with families - parents, children and siblings; working with children and young people with communication impairments and learning disabilities, drawing on both verbal and non-verbal communication approaches

Urban regeneration and renewal; voluntary sector/NGOs/third sector; crime/criminology and place; policing studies; methodologically: qualitative studies in general and the use of case studies

Community care policy; service delivery and organisation; informal care; boundaries in health and social care; evidence-based policy making

Surveillance and taxonomy in social policy, homelessness, socioeconomic exclusion and worklessness, housing and care, supporting people and low intensity support, social policy and e-government and social housing management

Homelessness (particularly amongst young people); housing, support and care issues; home ownership, risk and safety nets

Private rented sector; housing benefit; young people and housing pathways; cemetery history, cemetery policy and policy relating to funerals and welfare

Social security; labour market; sickness and disability, or any combination. Current research includes work on government welfare to work programmes and on mental health and employment

Service evaluation; any methodologically oriented social work subject except sophisticated statistics; action research; practice research in social work; any sociologically informed social work research; international students who are interested in any of these; theorising social work

Family policy generally; financial obligations of separated parents (i.e. child support or child maintenance); childcare and early education policy; partnering and parenting; non-resident fathers; social security; symbolic meanings of money; work-life balance and coordination of daily family/working life and how families manage time space and place, life long learning in HE settings, widening participation to higher education

Sustainable development, environmental issues in developing countries, public participation, environmental policy, the links between poverty and the environment, the relationship between science and policy, transport policy, sustainable schools, local government, fuel and water povetry

Children and young people looked after in public care, especially young people leaving care and unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children, and young runaways and street children

Mental health services; mental health law and practice; service user experience; advocacy; participative methodologies; visual methods