Research students

Our current PhD students and their topics.

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A

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Niaz Ahmad	Foreign aid, poverty and development in Pakistan.	Professor Alan Walker
Sarah Akhtar Baz	Exploring the Lived Experiences of South Asian Muslim Lone Mothers and the Role of South Asian Women's Organisations in their Lives.	Dr Jo Britton and Professor Sarah Neal
Nor Ardyanti Binti Ahmad	The political economy of development: an examination of the Visionary Capability Movement or Gerakan Daya Wawasan (GDW) programme in Malaysia.	Professor Alan Walker, Professor Sarah Neal
Camille Allard	To care and to work : The role of Carer leave in the UK.
Fahad Rashid Saif Al Jahwari	Exploring Evidence for Omani Graduates and Migrant Graduates Employment and Employability in the Tourism and Hospitality Sector in Oman.	Dr Majella Kilkey, Professor Louise Ryan
Ahmed Ismeil M Alageili	The Role of Self-help Groups in Overcoming Challenges Faced by Mothers of Autistic Children.	Mr Robin Sen, Professor Sue White
Nancy Ansah	The impact of advocacy on policy formulation and implementation in Ghana: the case of reproductive health in Ghana.	Dr Harriet Churchill, Dr Afua Twum-Danso Imoh

B

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Natalie Claire Bennett	Social connectedness and mental well-being in communities experiencing ethnic change.	Professor Sarah Salway, Dr Aneta Piekut
Ruth Beresford	What are women's experiences of pornography?	Professor Sarah Neal
Andrew Borwick	Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE): Exploring and understanding social workers decision-making and practices with children identified as being at risk of CSE.	Professor Sue White
Hyacinth Blake	Family Care for Frail Older Persons in Trinidad: Implications for Social Policy	Dr Lorna Warren

C

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Ping Chen	Internet surveillance in China: the online activism of the Chinese government	Professor Clive Norris
Yu-Ning Chuang	Construction of risk society: A corpus-based analysis of climate change, global warming, and air pollution in Taiwanese political talk shows	Dr Warren Pearce
Ross Clark	Collective belonging, ‘communities’ and identity construction in the post-industrial era	Dr Jo Britton
Emily Coupland	Understanding media audiences in the age of big data.	Professor Helen Kennedy
Claire Cunnington	Adults recovering from Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Salutogenic Approach	Dr Tom Clark

F

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Hannah May Fletcher	The Brexit vote’s implications for dimensions of belonging among English-born white residents in a working-class neighbourhood in England	Dr Jo Britton and Professor Sarah Neal
Monika Elzbieta Fratczak	Emotional responses to data and data visualization	Professor Helen Kennedy, Professor Sarah Neal

G

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Christie Garner	Giving voice to children in family-centred work: co-producing an evaluation framework for the Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities parenting programme	Professor Sarah Salway
Celso Garcia Ferreira Gomes	The meaning and practice of translational research in biomedicine	Professor Paul Martin

H

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Lap Hin Fan	The investigation of politics of social work under the current welfare policy in China and the negotiation of habitus and identity of social workers in China	Professor Alan Walker
Martin Heneghan	Pension Provision after the Global Economic Crisis: A Comparative Study	Dr Liam Foster

J

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Xiufeng Jia	The meaning of data for self-trackers and implications of the data on their self-tracking practices	Dr Kate Weiner, Professor Helen Kennedy
Florence Jurua Joseph	Exploration of the views of those involved in private fostering arrangements: The privately fostered children, their private foster carers and their birth parents	Mr Robin Sen
Min-a Jung	Ageing and work issues	Professor Alan Walker

K

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Alex Kirby-Reynolds	Brexit and the (Il)liberal Colonisation of Time: Structures of Feeling and Actually Existing Democracy	Dr Hannah Lewis, Dr Simon Popple

L

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Jessica Langston	Social Workers' experiences of the 26 week time restriction on care proceedings
Ming Fung Leung	Activation programmes as social policy in Hong Kong	Dr Liam Foster
Jiaxun Li	Mediated self-representation on social media platforms	Professor Helen Kennedy, Dr Katherine Davies
August Lindemer	A new climate of public reason: impact and trust in science communication	Dr Warren Pearce
Ka Man Lo	Family and lone mothers in Hong Kong	Professor Alan Walker

M

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Lee Marsden	Mass media attacks upon vulnerable groups	Dr Matthias Benzer
Maev McDaid	An ethnographic study of the needs and experiences of older Irish migrants in England	Dr Lorna Warren
Abdul Rahim Mohammed	Social policy for development in Ghana: Mainstreaming child-sensitive social protection programmes to keep children in school and out of work during fiscal austerity	Dr Afua Twum-Danso Imoh, Dr Majella Kilkey
Lydia Moyo	Developing an effective multi-agency work	Dr Harriet Churchill

N

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Pornthip Netiparatanakul	Care, dementia, ageing	Dr Lorna Warren
Panrat Nimtaloung	Sharing of family for abandoned children as an alternative care in Thailand's contexts	Mr Robin Sen
Bethany Nutbrown	You’re the real MVP. Understanding community in League of Legends, On and Off The Rift.	Dr Tom Clark, Dr Lorna Warren

O

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Tawodzera Obert	The role of new technologies in mediating long distance aged care between UK based migrants and their overseas family members	Dr Majella Kilkey, Professor Louise Ryan
Ore-Ofe Oladiran	An assessment of factors affecting the transitioning from early childhood through adolescence to adulthood in people living with sickle cell disease	Dr Kate Weiner, Professor Paul Martin
Kwaku Gyening Owusu	Emigration and the diaspora in Africa’s contemporary welfare development: a critical examination	Dr Majella Kilkey, Dr Afua Twum-Danso Imoh

P

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Lulu Pinney	Acquiring data visualisation literacy	Professor Helen Kennedy

R

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Natalie Richardson	Witnessing Suffering: A sociological exploration of how suffering is managed in professional lives	Drs Kate Reed and Matthias Benzer

S

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Gbenga Akinlolu Shadare	Citizens' perceptions and attitudes towards conditional cash transfers in Nigeria	Professor Alan Walker
Chris Schimkowsky	Friendly but pervasive: Non-assertive control mechanisms and the maintenance of social order in Tokyo	Dr. Alex Dennis; Dr. Jamie Coates; Prof. Clive Norris
Permala Sehmar	Exploring Family Practices in the context of Domestic Violence and Abuse and State Responses.	Mr Robin Sen, Professor Kate Morris
Gbenga Akinlolu Shadare	Citizens' perceptions and attitudes towards conditional cash transfers in Nigeria.	Professor Alan Walker
Winona Shaw	Non-resident fatherhood: a qualitative study of fathers’ perspectives in the context of the diversity of their everyday family and social relationships and lives	Dr Harriet Churchill, Dr Majella Kilkey

T

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Nobuko Terai	Childrens' childhoods in Japanese schooling	Dr Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
Rhiannon Topham	The experiences of gender and empathy in online dating practices	Dr Katherine Davies, Professor Sarah Neal
Laura Towers	Life after death: experiences of sibling bereavement over the life course	Dr Katherine Davies

W

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Zhelu Wang	Reimaging and Revaluating the U.K. and Brexit: A Comparative Analysis on Chinese Social Media	Professor Helen Kennedy, Dr Stefania Vicari
Lauren White	Negotiating Everyday Life with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)	Professor Kate Reed, Dr Kate Weiner
Louise Whitehead	The role of co-production in combating social isolation and loneliness in later life: a case study of the Time to Shine project	Dr Andrea Wigfield
Joseph Wong	A Preliminary Study of the Underemployment Experience of Older Workers	Professor Alan Walker
Liam Mark Wrigley	An investigation of NEET young people’s social capital networks	Professor Louise Ryan, Dr Andrea Wigfield
Natalie Wotherspoon	How people with ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) experience their diagnosis	Dr Kate Reed
Yunrui Wu	From trainees to trainers: digital labour in a Chinese online fitness company	Professor Helen Kennedy, Dr Matthias Benzer

X

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Guanyi Xu	Roommate relationships in Chinese university dormitories: students’ life experience and perception	Dr Katherine Davies, Professor Sarah Neal

Y

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Zheng Yang	Citizen Scientists, Boundary-work and Scientific Authority, Struggle for Discourse Authority between Scientists and the Public in New Media Environment of China	Dr Stefania Vicari

Z

Name	Scope of research	Primary supervisor(s)
Noor Zainol Abidin	The Roles of National and Local Policy and Practices to Support the Commercialization of Biotechnology In Malaysia.	Professor Paul Martin