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Please circulate this per email. Very many thanks, Jeanne Katz
PhD Studentships: 2005 - 2008
The School of Health and Social Welfare at The Open University is offering two 3-year funded studentships for full-time study towards research degrees. The School has been awarded Mode +3 status with the ESRC.Applicants should have a good first degree (2.1 or above) in an appropriate subject and preferably a Master's degree or some training in Research Methodology at Master's level. A student maintenance grant of £12,000 from October 2005 will be awarded, together with a £1,000 grant per year to cover student's research training and project costs.
Topics of specific interest to academics in the School are:-
* Professional documentation and identity in health and social care
* A history of advocacy in learning disability
* Motherhood as an identity/changing representations of motherhood
* The gendered nature of risk in mental health
* Home-sharing in later life
* Choice, control and infant feeding
* Working with families where child neglect is an issue
However, applicants interested in parenting, children and young people; ageing; end of life; learning difficulties; methodology or other areas of research within health and social care are also invited to apply.
Studentships commence on 1 October 2005 and are based at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. Applicants must be resident in the UK. The closing date for applications is 1 March 2005. Interviews will be held on 22nd March at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.
For further information or a copy of the further particulars please contact:
June Ayres (Research Secretary), Tel: 01908 654233 - 24 hour, email [log in to unmask], or write to SHSW, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
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