Department of Social & Policy Sciences

A critical review of graduate employability skills : lessons from the Maltese experience

Supervisor: Cressey, P. (Supervisor) & Lauder, H. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

A Juku Childhood: Children’s experiences in Juku attendance and its relation to their well-being in Japan

Supervisor: Ridge, T. (Supervisor) & Harkness, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

An Analysis Of The Treatment Of Informal Care As A Social Risk in England

Supervisor: Carmel, E. (Supervisor) & Johnson, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

An institutional analysis of savings group development using evidence from Kenya

Supervisor: Johnson, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

An investigation of parental responses to child experiences of trauma

Supervisor: Halligan, S. (Supervisor), Creswell, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Butler, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

A Political Economy of Insecurity?: State and Socio-Economic Actors in the Making of Industrial Relations in Modern Turkey

Supervisor: Papadopoulos, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Attitudes to science and the decline of the uptake of physics at A-level

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Attitudes to work in the Czech Republic in post-socialist transition

Supervisor: Cressey, P. (Supervisor) & Ridge, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Bereavement and identity: making sense of bereavement in contemporary British society

Supervisor: Howarth, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Bereavement and Motivation in Three Contrasting Cultures: Britain, Japan and China

Supervisor: Valentine, C. (Supervisor) & Troyer, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

British-born Bangladeshi Women in Higher Education: Intersectional Experiences and Identities

Supervisor: Carmel, E. (Supervisor) & Ingram, N. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

British churches, participation and community development

Supervisor: Walter, J. (Supervisor), Room, G. (Supervisor) & Devine, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Bullying and Social Dilemmas: The Role of Social Context in Anti-Social Behaviour

Supervisor: Teater, B. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Capital and welfare: business influence on social policy 1979-1996

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Challenging the tyranny of citizenship: Statelessness in Lebanon

Supervisor: Brown, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Children’s Rights in Policy and Poverty: An Analysis of Iceland, Norway & the UK

Supervisor: Ridge, T. (Supervisor) & Harkness, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

'Child trafficking': Experiences of separated children on the move

Supervisor: Brown, S. (Supervisor) & Butler, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

China’s entrance to WTO, the influence of intellectual property rights protection reform on technology diffusion

Supervisor: Subasat, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Consumption and wellbeing: Motives for consumption and needs satisfiers in Peru

Supervisor: Gough, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Contemporary Conflict and the Online Information Environment: An examination of American military engagement with Web 2.0

Supervisor: Miller, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Corporate Codes of Conduct and Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains: Implementation of the Codes in Vietnam's Garment Factories

Supervisor: Jones, B. (Supervisor) & Brown, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Court responses to rape and sexual assault: An observation of sexual violence trials

Supervisor: Skinner, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Defining the nameless: Police constructions of mental disorder

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Development ethics, Sen's Idea of Justice and the reproduction of injustice: reconceptualising injustice in the context of development policy in Mexico

Supervisor: Deneulin, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Diversify or Die? The Response of Ghanaian Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs) to a Changing Aid Landscape

Supervisor: Copestake, J. (Supervisor) & Maconachie, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Elephants standing on their hind legs: women in the changing village context of Southern Thailand

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Explaining Individual Differences in Children’s Emotions and Behaviour Following Routine Stressors: The role of cognitive appraisal, coping and cortisol

Supervisor: Butler, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Explaining the Dynamics of Regional Integration: Democratisation, Identity, Institutions and Leadership in the Case of ASEAN

Supervisor: Brown, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Explaining the Impact of Social Policy on Child Mortality: A Cross-country Statistical Analysis and a Case Study of Vietnam

Supervisor: Gough, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Exploring young people’s experiences of foster care using a social capital approach: Disrupted networks and continuing bonds

Supervisor: Butler, I. (Supervisor) & Brown, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Financial circumstances and family change

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

From National to Pluri-National: Rethinking the transformation of the Bolivian state through struggles for autonomy

Supervisor: Dinerstein, A. C. (Supervisor) & Copestake, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Going to Funerals in Contemporary Britain: The Individual, the Family and the Meeting with Death

Supervisor: Walter, J. (Supervisor) & Tuckwell, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Governing Skills, Governing Workplaces: State-steered Voluntarism in England under New Labour

Supervisor: Papadopoulos, T. (Supervisor) & Cressey, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Governing Through Networks: Participation Dynamics in New Deal for Communities

Supervisor: Room, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Guaranteed minimum income schemes and the right to personal development

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Health care for female sex workers: need, risk, access and provision

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Human investment and the new economy in the European Union

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Institutional, Economic and Regional determinants of Foreign Direct Investments in the Balkan, Central European and ex-Soviet transition economies

Supervisor: Subasat, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Labour Migration Management as Multidimensional Border-drawing: A Comparative Interpretive Policy Analysis in the EU

Supervisor: Carmel, E. (Supervisor) & Milner, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Learning Your Way Out? A Sociology of Working Class Educational Experience

Supervisor: Ridge, T. (Supervisor) & Cressey, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Living in the shade of others: intermediation, politics and violence in Dhaka city

Supervisor: Devine, J. (Supervisor) & Wood, G. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Living with landmines: mine action, development and wellbeing in post-conflict societies – a case study in Cambodia

Supervisor: White, S. (Supervisor) & Hart, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Lone parents and welfare-to-work reform: A policy appraisal

Supervisor: Millar, J. (Supervisor) & Harkness, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Making sense of men’s experiences and progression through social work programmes

Supervisor: Brown, S. (Supervisor), Moore, S. (Supervisor) & Butler, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Making sense of sustained part-time working through stories of mothering and paid work

Supervisor: Skinner, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Managing a murderous identity: How men who murder experience life imprisonment and the concept of release

Supervisor: Skinner, T. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Managing for organisational self-reliance and social impact in Indian microfinance: alternatives to the mainstream

Supervisor: Copestake, J. (Supervisor) & Johnson, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Managing shared residence: a study of fathers' experiences in Britain and France.

Supervisor: Millar, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Mapping a social landscape: an exploration of lay and professional understandings of a 'good death' and palliative care in an Irish setting

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD