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ESRC 1+3, +3 AND UNIVERSITY FULLY FUNDED PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY
www.uea.ac.uk/swp/mphilphd
We are seeking to recruit excellent candidates for ESRC and University fully funded full-time and part-time PhD studentships in Social Work and Social Policy, to start in October 2010. Application deadline: Monday 15 March 2010.
Successful applicants will join an internationally leading academic department with a strong interdisciplinary focus and reputation forpolicy and practitioner relevant empirical research in social work, social policy, and psychology. The School is home to the Centre forResearch on the Child and Family, a Key Institution of UNICEF Childwatch International.
ESRC 1+3 and +3 Quota and Competition PhD Studentships (UK/EU) These awards cover tuition fees, a tax-free maintenance grant (currently £13,290 per year) and a research training support grant.
University Fully Funded PhD Studentships (UK/EU/International) These awards cover tuition fees (UK/EU rates), a tax-free maintenance grant (currently £13,290 per year), and a research trainingsupport grant.
For all studentships, there may be opportunities to supplement income with teaching experience. Research Areas and Projects:
Protecting Children: Serious child maltreatment, family support, interagency working, children on the threshold of out of home care, policy and practice implications. Issues and preventive strategies in child sexual exploitation, turning points and survival strategies of women involved in prostitution.
Improving Child Placement: Step-parent adoptions, post-adoption contact, adoptive parents attitudes about post-adoption contact. Fostering: transition to adulthood from residential care.
Fathers and Work-Family Negotiation: Comparative policy analysis of father-targeted parental leave in Europe. Couple negotiation of maternity and paternity leave. Work-family reconciliation for parents of premature babies.
Parenting: Identity of separated mothers and fathers, management and negotiation of parental roles and responsibilities post-divorce, narrative research methodology.
Legal and Professional Issues: Child care social work and the law, social work and social policy, international dimensions of professional social work.
Applicants are strongly advised to view the specific research areas and interests of the School of Social Work and Psychology.
To discuss your application please contact: Admissions, Faculty of Social Sciences, [log in to unmask], or tel 01603 593854.
Professor Margaret O'Brien,
Co-Director,
Centre for Research on the Child and the Family, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Tel: 01603-593-589
Fax: 01603-593-552
http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/ssf/swp/people/mobrien
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