The School of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton is currently inviting applications for studentships leading to a PhD in a number of areas including social policy, demography, gerontology, and social statistics. The studentships will either provide funding for a research-training Master's degree followed by a PhD programme or just a PhD programme, depending on the amount of research training already completed.
Staff in the School have a wide variety of resaerch interests.
Research in Sociology & Social Policy focusses on social divisions and social cohesion, community and identity, long term change, globalization, risk, ageing and comparative social policy.
Research in Gerontology focuses on health inequalities in later life, access to health and social services, the dynamics of family care, gender inequalities over the lifecourse, poverty and social exclusion in later life, juggling family care and paid work, income and pensions over the lifecourse.
Research in Demography focuses on demographic data and methods; fertility, the family and family planning in the UK; fertility, reproductive and child health in the developing world; and historical demography. Research on living standards uses survey data to investigate poverty and inequality, labour markets, and education, both in the UK and other OECD countries and in other parts of the world, notably Eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
For more information on the studentships, please see
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