Centre for Research in the Social Sciences

PhD student members

George Ackers

De-industrialisation and masculine work identity in the former naval repair community of Medway

Nafhesa Ali

Migration, Ageing and Well-being in the South Asian Community: A Life History

Linda Asquith

Criminological analysis of genocide

Dawn Beckett

An examination of the role of police occupational culture in the involvement and engagement of police officers with initial professional education programmes

Andrew Blunt

 Conflict, crime and the citizen

Kathryn Brown

 Too old to rock 'n' roll, too young to die

Kirsty Budds

 A qualitative analysis of obstetric care given to first mothers over 35

Vicky Byrne

 Disability support services

Sarah Chipperfield

Wellbeing

Kris Christmann

The development of neighbourhood policing: Investigating the prospects for police governance and accountability

Aaron Cooper

Threatened identities? Difference and diversity in contemporary Britishness

Niall Dew

The social construction of health practitioners' knowledge through information technologies

Angela Ellam

De-politicising local government: the impact of the Local Government Modernisation Agenda on party politics

Andrea Gaynor

Enabling marginalised groups to narrate their claims to intimate citizenship within higher education:  toward a new theory of citizenship

Camilo Andrez Tamayo Gomez

Communicative Citizenship (Full time, funded by the University of Huddersfield)

Gavin Hart

Citizenship Education and Conflict Resolution: Northern Ireland as a Case Study

Lynne Haycock

Jim Hordern

Higher education and the competition state: Implementing the higher skills agenda

Rudy van Kemenade

Narratives of English national character

Marcus Lumb

Masculinities and Vulnerability

Libby McEnhill

From Opposition to Coalition: Analysing Conservative Welfare Policy

Robert Nicholls

The British Political Elite and the European Dilemma. An in-depth analysis of Labour and Conservative political elites during the period 1959 to 1984 as seen through the prism of the European Union.  The purpose of this study is to test a hypothesis that for many in the elite, a position on Europe was secondary to political advantage.

Nkululeko Sibanda

Political or (and) Economics Rights? Assessing the impact of international intervention on the quest for democracy in post-colonial countries (a case of Zimbabwe)

Amanda Swallow

 Children of Prisoners: Hidden trauma, preventable trauma?

Andrew Teal

‘Captology’ is an effective catalyst for health behaviour change and is therefore a useful tool for improving the well-being of people with long-term conditions.

Paul White

Protocols of Power: Internet Governance and International Relations Theory

Graham Williams

Organisational learning in English local authorities