Potential PhD Areas

Dr Christine Furber: midwifery, public health, maternity workforce, midwifery education, maternal mental health, maternity care, qualitative methods, framework analysis, mixed methods

Professor Andrew Rowland: Children’s Rights, Law, and Advocacy; Equal Protection (from assault) for Children [physical punishment of children]; Improving the health and wellbeing of Our Children (Looked After Children) including unaccompanied children seeking asylum.

Dr. Matt Wallace: population health, mortality, international migration, the children of migrants, health inequality, advanced quantitative methods, secondary data

Dr Joy Probyn: flexible working, gender inequality, women’s health, sociology of health and health inequalities 

Dr Tina G Patel: anti-racist discourse –critical race and intersectional frameworks; crime, justice and victimisation of minoritised ethnic and racialised populations; policing and hate crimes; decolonisation in crime and criminology; qualitative methods

Dr Lorraine Henshaw: Children’s engagement in research, children and YP voices in their care, specialist and advanced nursing, midwifery and AHCP roles and practice. Professional role transition and professional role identity, health care and social workforce retention and planning, health care and social workforce education. Qualitative and Mixed methods research.

Professor Vanessa Heaslip: health inequity and inequality, vulnerability, underserved communities, socially excluded communities. Methodologically, I am interested in supervising qualitative research and phenomenology