Social Policy and Social Work
Current PhD research students
| Name | Thesis topic / Research Interests | Thesis Supervisor |
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| Renée Aleong | Approved mental health professionals and the compulsory detention of Black service-users under the Mental Health Act: An Institutional Ethnography | |
| Kate Andersen | The implications of Universal Credit for women’s citizenship: an investigation into the experiences and views of mothers subject to conditionality. | |
| Helen Baldwin | Improving outcomes in child protection cases involving parental substance misuse. | |
| Anna Browning | The socio-economic relationships within government subsidised housing policy and consider the social implications of recent changes in policy direction. | |
| Siobhan Callaghan | A comparative analysis of OECD countries' drug policy typologies, welfare regimes and socio-economic characteristics in shaping drug related outcomes. | |
| Fiorella Ciapessoni | Contributions to understanding criminal career paths and homelessness in Uruguay. | |
| Anette Bonifant Cisneros | The Policy Process in Mexico: Development of Obesity Policy and Sugar Tax. | |
| Michael Conn | The role and function of in-work benefits: the understanding and response of business. | |
| Fei Fang | A study of the difficulties and support available for bereaved parents in China as a result of the one-child policy. | |
| Karemah Francois | The transnational home: the experience around the meaning and making home for Grenadian transnational households. | |
| Emma Geddes | A qualitative exploration of UK birth relatives’ experiences of the loss of a child to adoption. | |
| Kate Gridley | Standardised measures for people living with dementia: experiences, observations and implications. | |
| Xiaojie Guo | The universal two-child policy and gender inequality in mainland China. | |
| Tess Herrmann | The role of interconnectivity inside the adult industry and its impact on British lap dancing clubs. | |
| Samuel Hinrichs | Contracting of control: how do bouncers police drugs in a nightclub setting. | |
| Isabelle Huning | A comparative perspective on the evolution of skill formation systems in Germany and England within their social and cultural context. | |
| Victoria Jagne | Living with long-standing mental ill health in old age: A qualitative systematic review and narrative inquiry. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. |
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| Chanon Komonmarn |
Child and youth's participation in Thailand social policy. |
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| Mina Lee | Work-life balance policies for working mothers in Korea. | |
| Natalie Leworthy | Intergenerational dynamics and the interface with quality of life, inequalities and care decision making in a newly diagnosed dementia population. | |
| Cangheng Liu | How can an emerging economy, such as China, best balance the needs of capital and the needs of citizens: International, national and regional lessons. | |
| Jiaxin Liu | Crowding-out or crowding-in? Re-examining the roles of the state and family in providing for the aged in China. | |
| Emese Mayhew | Characterising the structure and nature of social connectedness in populations living with impairment. | |
| Alice Park | Policing mental health: A realist evaluation of street triage. | |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Liz Wands-Murray |
How inclusive are community-based services: older LGBTQ people choosing and using services. |
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| Susan Watson | The role of social media abuse in gender-based violence: the challenge of vituperative communication in the age of new technology. | |
| Shimeng Yin | Inequality in China’s current pension system: analysing urban-rural difference and the gender gap. | |
| Xinide |
Constructing a gendered welfare typology of six East Asian societies. |
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| Jiayu Zhang |
Cultural change and long-term care in China: transition of the role of family for care provision. |