Social Policy and Social Work (PhD) – (Ph.D.)

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The School for Policy Studies links theory, policy and practice in a multidisciplinary, research-intensive environment. It's research programme is organised around four main Centres:

* Centre for Family Policy and Child Welfare (including Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies and Violence Against Women Research VAWRG Group).
Extensive programme of research on parenting, substitute parenting, violence against women, child protection, family support and children in need, including comparative research in East Asia, India, and Europe.


* Centre for Health and Social Care (including the Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group).
Focuses on applied and theoretical research relating to key health issues nationally and internationally, and evaluation strategies which actively involve funders and service users in the research process and in dissemination of findings.


* Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice (including the Townsend Centre for Intrernational Poverty Research).
Formed in 1998 to provide an integrative perspective on existing scholarship in criminal justice, socio-legal studies, poverty and social exclusion, and promotes a supportive arena for critical national and international analysis.


* Centre for Urban Studies (including the ESRC Centre for Neighbourhood Research).
Focuses on the transformation of social and economic life in cities, with a strong international and comparative dimension including active research links with institutions in East and South East Asia, the European Union and a wider Europe.