Qualifications |
Duration |
Start dates |
Application period |
PhD or Professional doctorate |
PhD:
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
Professional doctorate:
Part-time: 4–8 years |
October |
November to January |
Qualifications
PhD or Professional doctorate |
Duration
PhD:
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
Professional doctorate:
Part-time: 4–8 years |
Start dates
October |
Application period
November to January |
We conduct applied research into social work and social care services, including professional identities, service user involvement in social work education and practice, the provision of social work education through distance learning, mental health, learning disabilities, digital literacies, and social work history.
Our research is recognised for its innovative approach and academic rigour, with many of our academics internationally renowned as subject experts. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), our submission under the unit of assessment for Social Work and Social Policy was judged world-leading or internationally excellent, a testament to both the world-class research by colleagues and the impact of our research on practice. We contribute to policy debates and developments through the Social Work History Network and NIHR (SSCR).
Entry requirements
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) and an MA or research methods training at MA level (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your .
Potential research projects
- Social work and mental health
- Service user and carer involvement
- Values and Ethics of practice
- Legal Literacy
- the Social Model of Disability
- Rights Based Practice
- Professional Identity
- Social Work and Criminal Justice
- being a practitioner-researcher
- Methodologies: Ethnography, Observational Methods, Reflexive Thematic analysis, Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), critical realism
Current/recent research projects
- Retention in Social Work
- Structural harm, exclusion and agency of young people’s lives in contemporary Britain
- Welsh language social work provision for Service Users and Carers
- Working together in child protection
- The lived experience of Relate supervisors
- Nigerian lay counsellors on identifying and intervening in child abuse
Potential supervisors
Fees and funding
PhD fees
UK fee |
International fee |
Full-time: 拢5,006 per year |
Full-time: 拢12,705 per year |
Part-time: 拢2,503 per year |
Part-time: 拢6,353 per year |
Professional doctorate fees
UK fee |
International fee |
Part time: 拢3,811 per year |
Part time: 拢9,676 per year |
Some of our research students are funded via the or The Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.
For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.
To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, visit .
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