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The CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS (CRFR) is seeking applications from excellent candidates for an ESRC PhD Studentship to start in September 2008 Deadline for applications: 21st March 2008 CRFR is a consortium research centre, whose main office is at the University of Edinburgh, with partners at other Scottish Universities. We conduct, facilitate and disseminate high quality social research on families and relationships. To learn more about CRFR and our postgraduate community see http://www.crfr.ac.uk/index.htm Applications from all social science disciplines are welcome but particularly those from social policy and sociology, including sociology of health and illness, concerning any area of research on any aspect of families and/or relationships. We particularly encourage proposals that involve quantitative secondary analysis of large data sets, both cross sectional and longitudinal (for example the Growing up in Scotland study). We would also welcome proposals that involve longitudinal qualitative data collection and analysis. Applicants who want to use a qualitative or mixed method approach can also apply. Our current research is organised under five themes: children, young people, families and relationships; government and services, families and relationships; social inclusion, families and relationships; older people, families and relationships; health and wellbeing, families and relationships. We would welcome applications on any of these themes but projects in the following areas would be of particular interest: transmission of advantage and disadvantage; social and health inequalities within and between families; grand-parenting and cross generational relationships; practices of intimacy and varieties of living arrangements particularly solo-living; the families and friendship relationships of migrants; reproduction and fertility; parenting; older people; and rural dimensions or rural/ urban comparisons with respect to any of these topics. Further details and the application process can be found on the CRFR website http://www.crfr.ac.uk/index.htm Vivien M Smith Centre Manager Centre for Research on Families and Relationships The University of Edinburgh 23 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LN Telephone : 0131 651 1918 Fax : 0131 651 1833