Current PhD research students

Name	Thesis topic / Research Interests	Thesis Supervisor
Renée Aleong	Approved mental health professionals and the compulsory detention of Black service-users under the Mental Health Act: An Institutional Ethnography	Professor Martin Webber Dr Jennifer Threlfall
Amjad Abdullah Alzahrani	An investigative study into child protection legal framework and training provision to social workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	Dr Hannah Jobling Professor Christine Skinner
Kate Andersen	The implications of Universal Credit for women’s citizenship: an investigation into the experiences and views of mothers subject to conditionality.	Dr Aniela Wenham Professor Peter Dwyer
Helen Baldwin	Improving outcomes in child protection cases involving parental substance misuse.	Professor Nina Biehal Professor Charlie Lloyd
Anna Browning	The socio-economic relationships within government subsidised housing policy and consider the social implications of recent changes in policy direction.	Dr Carolyn Snell Dr Julie Rugg
Siobhan Callaghan	A comparative analysis of OECD countries' drug policy typologies, welfare regimes and socio-economic characteristics in shaping drug related outcomes.	Dr Naomi Finch
Fiorella Ciapessoni	Contributions to understanding criminal career paths and homelessness in Uruguay.	Dr Lisa O'Malley Professor Nicholas Pleace
Anette Bonifant Cisneros	The Policy Process in Mexico: Development of Obesity Policy and Sugar Tax.	Professor Neil Lunt Dr Daniel Horsfall
Michael Conn	The role and function of in-work benefits: the understanding and response of business.	Professor Neil Lunt Dr Kevin Farnsworth
Karemah Francois	The transnational home: the experience around the meaning and making home for Grenadian transnational households.	Professor Nicholas Pleace Professor John Hudson
Emma Geddes	A qualitative exploration of UK birth relatives’ experiences of the loss of a child to adoption.	Dr Aniela Wenham Professor Christine Skinner
Kate Gridley	Standardised measures for people living with dementia: experiences, observations and implications.	Professor Yvonne Birks Dr Kate Baxter
Xiaojie Guo	The universal two-child policy and gender inequality in mainland China.	Dr Naomi Finch
Tess Herrmann	The role of interconnectivity inside the adult industry and its impact on British lap dancing clubs.	Dr Kate Brown Sharon Grace
Samuel Hinrichs	Contracting of control: how do bouncers police drugs in a nightclub setting.	Professor Charlie Lloyd Sharon Grace
Isabelle Huning	A comparative perspective on the evolution of skill formation systems in Germany and England within their social and cultural context.	Dr Kevin Caraher
Alison Inceu	Title to be confirmed.	Dr Aniela Wenham
Kelli Kennedy	Universal Credit and Food (In)Security: Can Universal Credit be Reformed to Reduce Food Insecurity or is a Targeted Food Program the Solution? A US-UK Policy Transfer Analysis.	Dr Carolyn Snell
Safina Khan	Child Sexual Exploitation within the South Asian Community: Exploring the support available, implemented and required by victims from frontline services in order to help equip them with confidence to report the abuse.	Dr Jennifer Threlfall Professor Charlie Lloyd
Chanon Komonmarn	Child and youth's participation in Thailand social policy.	Dr Aniela Wenham Professor Christine Skinner
Mina Lee	Work-life balance policies for working mothers in Korea.	Professor Christine Skinner
Natalie Leworthy	Intergenerational dynamics and the interface with quality of life, inequalities and care decision making in a newly diagnosed dementia population.	Professor Yvonne Birks Dr Kate Baxter
Xuemeng Li	Processes, experiences and outcomes for older adults who self-fund housing adaptations.	Professor Yvonne Birks Dr Phillip Whitehead
Jiaxin Liu	Crowding-out or crowding-in? Re-examining the roles of the state and family in providing for the aged in China.	Dr Antonios Roumpakis
Emese Mayhew	Characterising the structure and nature of social connectedness in populations living with impairment.	Professor Bryony Beresford
Alice Park	Policing mental health: A realist evaluation of street triage.	Professor Martin Webber Dr Hannah Jobling
Laura Tucker	Unweaving the web: Using a mixed methods approach to understand the role and contribution of mental health social work to the delivery of mental health services in England and Wales.	Professor Martin Webber Dr Hannah Jobling
Kirsty Toone	A longitudinal study into the views of alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour on the definition of anti-social behaviour and the success or otherwise of related interventions.	Dr Kate Brown Professor Peter Dwyer
Liz Wands-Murray	How inclusive are community-based services: older LGBTQ people choosing and using services.	Professor Yvonne Birks Dr Mark Wilberforce
Yiqian Wang	The comparison of social housing policy at the international level (UK, China and Singapore) and the national level (Chongqing, Shenzhen and Hangzhou).	Professor Nicholas Pleace
Susan Watson	The role of social media abuse in gender-based violence: the challenge of vituperative communication in the age of new technology.	Dr Rachel Vipond Professor John Hudson
Thomas Wells	In light of the 'Prison Crisis', what are the explanations of, and solutions to, violence within prison? A qualitative study of prisoners' and prison staffs' perceptions of the current prison environment within England and Wales using a GST theoretical framework.	Sharon Grace Dr Lisa O'Malley
Shimeng Yin	Inequality in China’s current pension system: analysing urban-rural difference and the gender gap.	Dr Antonios Roumpakis
Xinide	Constructing a gendered welfare typology of six East Asian societies.	Dr Antonios Roupmpakis Dr Sabrina Chai
Jiayu Zhang	Cultural change and long-term care in China: transition of the role of family for care provision.	Professor John Hudson Dr Sabrina Chai

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