Social Policy and Social Work
Completed PhD research
Details of PhD theses are available through the University of York Library catalogue.
| Name | Thesis | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| Fai Fang | A study of the difficulties and support available for bereaved parents in China as a result of the one-child policy. | 2020 |
| Victoria Jagne | Living with long-standing mental health in old age: A qualitative systematic review and narrative inquiry. | 2020 |
| 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. | 2020 |
| Ling Ge | How to accommodate informal settlements' dwellers in Beijing, China. | 2019 |
| Davis Kiima | Ethnicity considerations and their influence in social workers' decisions when intervening with families of black and ethnic minority background. | 2019 |
| Kyunghwn Kim | Why do East Asian countries diverge on immigrants’ social rights? | 2019 |
| Jieun Lee | Ways to reform income security systems to mitigate poverty among Korean senior citizens: Comparing restructuring income security systems in England, Sweden and Japan. | 2019 |
| Eppie Leishman | Sexuality, Resilience and Wellbeing: An LGBT+ Perspective. | 2019 |
| Sophia Mackinder | State building and social protection: the state in post-conflict contexts. | 2019 |
| Maria Smith | Pay Satisfaction Amongst Higher Education Staff: An interpretive and gendered approach. | 2019 |
| Helen Stinson | Coping with conditionality: An exploration of the impact of welfare conditionality on vulnerable people. | 2019 |
| Gregory White | Policy, protest and power: Investigating contemporary perspectives and engagements of new social movements. | 2019 |
| Blaise Fofung Vudinga | Social protection in Cameroon: critical perspectives on the impact of social protection schemes, through the performance of the state and non-state social protection providers. | 2019 |
| Binrui Zheng | Is China moving towards a welfare state? | 2019 |
| Joanne Bretherton | Gender Dimensions in Conceptualisations of Homelessness: Theoretical and operational (in)visibility. | 2018 |
| Darren Baxter | The incidence and social, economic and neighbourhood effect of involuntary home moves. | 2018 |
| Meredith Newlin | The translation of health and social research to international contexts to maximise the impact of best practices and potentially effective results from the Connecting People Intervention (CPI) Study. | 2018 |
| Hyungyung Moon | Explaining institutional change of the welfare state in Korea. | 2018 |
| Laura Bainbridge | The occurrence and realities of the phenomenon of ‘international-subnational’ crime and justice policy transfer. | 2017 |
| Jonny Lovell | To investigate perceptions of the helpfulness of mental health practitioners sharing their mental health and other experiences and identities with service users. | 2017 |
| Tracee Green | The development of training and implementation fidelity measures to explore outcomes for Parenting Assessment Manual used with families who are involved in care proceedings. | 2017 |
| Ka Wo Fung | Incentives and healthcare in Hong Kong. | 2017 |
| Alison Allam | The meaning of Independence for Older People: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study. | 2016 |
| Adam Formby | Graduates and their engagement of Jobcentre Plus services in difficult times: a mixed methods study. | 2016 |
| Sarah Brooks-Wilson | Youth justice geography and socio-spatial (in)justice. | 2016 |
| Ik Hyun Jang | The distributive outcome of welfare reform in the context of welfare institution: multilevel analysis of income. | 2016 |
| Kelly McDonald | The social networks of unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in the transitions to adulthood. | 2016 |
| Tian Tian | Parenting style and the status of parent-child maltreatment: a case study on the high intelligentsia family in China. | 2016 |
| Nan Yang | Comparative social polices researches between East Asian states and Western countries, especially how to define the welfare regimes of East Asian states. | 2016 |
| Takahiro Asano | Continuing education system for the professional development of social workers. | 2015 |
| Christopher Clarke | Gender inequality in the labour market: a comparative study of the impact of work-family reconciliation policies. | 2015 |
| Charlotte Hamilton | Exploring Service Change, Older people's Access and Impact: Does Rurality Matter? | 2015 |
| Min Chul Hwang | The effectiveness of settlement service - delivery system for immigrant wives' integration in South Korea. | 2015 |
| Annie Irvine | Mental Health and Employment: context, concepts and complexity. | 2015 |
| Hannah Jobling | An ethnographic study on the implementation of Community Treatment Orders and their implications for practitioners, service users and carers. | 2015 |
| Miyang Jun | Lone parent families' transition from welfare to work. | 2015 |
| Sui Ting Kong | Participatory development of post-separation domestic violence services: A cooperative grounded inquiry with formerly abused women and their teenage sons/daughters in Hong Kong. | 2015 |
| Nurhadi | Child labour in Indonesia; child and parent perspective. | 2015 |
| Abigail Rimmer | An investigation into the effect of family change on children's wellbeing. | 2015 |
| Ricardo Rodrigues | The impact of user choice programmes on social care markets for long-term care services for older people. | 2015 |
| Katie Sworn | Methods for accessing 'voice' of people with dementia in research - studentship. | 2015 |
| Harriet Wand | Fuel poverty in the European Union: A multi-methods study. | 2015 |
| Patrick Winter | The use of attachment theory in adult psychotherapy. | 2015 |
| Amy Clair | The effects of schooling and education policy on the subjective wellbeing of children: A comparative study. | 2014 |
| Emily Foster | Pupils with SEN experience of leaving school. | 2014 |
| Seung Eun Lee |
The effect of structure of social expenditure on the Korean welfare system – focusing on the benefits for the disabled. |
2014 |
| Frederick Longino |
A comparative study of Pentecostal deliverance and healing practices and welfare of African children in Tanzania and England. |
2014 |
| Gill Main | Child poverty and child wellbeing. | 2014 |
| Courtney McNamara | Trade liberalisation, social policy and health: social determinants of health research. | 2014 |
| Gregory Neocleous | Evolution of the social welfare system for senior citizens in Cyprus. | 2014 |
| Yensook Rho | Healthcare marketization and equity of the healthcare system in Korea. | 2014 |
| Wai Kwan Yu |
Social life of older people living alone in Hong Kong. |
2014 |
| Lei Zhang |
Comparative study of Sino-Japanese corporate pensions social security social welfare pension. |
2013 |
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