"The researcher training and transferable skills program has been extremely beneficial for me. It has provided an opportunity to ask the 'nuts and bolts' questions of research and related topics in an informal and supportive atmosphere. It has also provided an opportunity to meet other PGs and hear a little about other projects, and benefit from their experiences. I will continue to attend as many of these sessions as possible as they provide a vital toolkit for research, and its presentation to the 'real' world outside academia." ~ Julie Peet, PhD student.
Current doctoral student members of the Health, Social Care and Embodiment cluster are undertaking research into the following areas:
- An investigation of the discourse of risk within midwifery talk and practice
- Assessment of Disorganised Attachment Methods
- Cost-effectiveness of Extra Care Housing
- Measuring and monitoring the quality of output in care homes: A cultural perspective
- Critical Analysis of Service Development, Client Need and available Resources with respect to harm reduction strategies in The Salvation Army Social Services
- How does Spiritual Capital increase resilience to negative life outcomes amongst vulnerable and socially excluded people?
- Deinstitutionalisation and community care in Hungary. Processes and Outcomes
- Quality matters: accountability, agency and social care reform in post-socialism
- Development of transitional services for young people with learning disabilities
- Intercountry adoption support services in Britain: Meeting the needs of parents and children
- Intimate relationship: a no-go zone for people with disability in Malta? A study of the factors which are influencing the establishment of a sexual identity and the expression of the sexuality of young persons with disability
- NMES: National Monitoring and Evaluating Service: Appropriate community assessment and intervention related to the complex needs of the socially excluded
- Opening the ‘black box’: A study of the process of NICE guideline implementation
- Practice Leadership management style & services for people with challenging behaviour
- The Assessment of and Service Design of people with learning disabilities and CB for supported living
- The effectiveness of group cognitive behavioural treatment for sex offenders with learning disabilities
- The experience of early-stage dementia
- The moral reasoning abilities of men with intellectual disabilities: Theories and treatment
- The relationship between challenging behaviour and rapport
- The Social Construction of the Issue of Child Abuse in Sport
- The Social Inclusion of people with Intellectual Disabilities from different cultural backgrounds (White British, British South Asians & British Chinese)
- The Well Being of Asylum Seekers in Toronto and London
- Building Body Identities – Exploring the World of Female Bodybuilders
- A Figurational Understanding of Tattooing in the UK
- A Queer Sociology of Public-Private Space