PhD doctoral researchers

The contribution of our research students is integral to the academic and community life of the School of Social Policy.

Students come from a wide range of backgrounds, some straight from undergraduate degrees, others having worked in social and health care, education, youth work, criminal justice, community work, faith-based organisations, national and local government and the voluntary sector. The School also has a tradition of hosting visiting international research students from the USA and Eastern Europe, as well as an established tradition of supervising research students with a range of disabilities, who are also service users.

Department of Social Work and Social Care 

Amer Azlan
Financial planning in Malaysia

Naheed Akhtar
Investigation of the normalization of Islamophobic discourse following 9/11 attacks

Simon Bartlett
Shared services and life chances

Ziad Faraj
The Challenges Encountering the Development of Social Work Profession in Palestine and Strategies to Overcome Them

Stephen Forrest
Regional Planning and Housing 2003-2007

Gerardo J Arriaga Garcia
The current crisis of development - rethinking social policy in Mexico

Caroline Greenhalgh
Caroline’s research explores how high net worth donors engage with philanthropy and conceptualise and measure the effectiveness of their giving

Bingzi He
The Five Pillars of Collaborative Housing – exploring enactment in Chinese Cooperative Security Housing and English Community Land Trusts

Resya Kania
Comparative Analysis of Financial Inclusion Policy in Britain and Indonesia

Koreana Ko
(Re)defining home through plans and decisions for life after retirement and old age: the case of ethnic Korean immigrants over the age of 50 in the South of England?

Feylyn Lewis
'Who am I?': An exploration of the identity development of young adult carers in the United Kingdom and the United States

Gemma Mallett

Compassion Fatigue in Foster Carers

Roberto Ozman
Unaccompanied and separated children

Anna Papoutsi
EU’s everyday bordering: governing the unwanted

Valerie Sylvester
Generational migration and African Caribbean women

Emma Taylor
Youth social action: Access and inclusion

Clio Belle Weisman
Functional Family Therapy: Analysis of effect and implementation 

Julie Whiteman
The impact of contemporary music narratives on sexual attitudes and behaviours

Timothy Williams
Mandated joint working, health and social care


Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Bimo Arianto

The Expansion and Socio-Economic Impact of National Social Security System in Indonesia- The Perspective of Policy Makers

Chloe Alexander
Ethnographic research on the intersectionality of children’s care work

James Bowles
The role of geospatial data in third sector service provision: developing a framework for research and practice

Bircan Ciytak
Negotiating belonging across generations – The case of 3rd Turkish heritage in Germany

Caroline Greenhalgh
‘Seeing is believing’  How do High Net Worth Individuals utilise evidence to inform their philanthropy? 

Andy Jolly
Household food security amongst undocumented migrant families in Birmingham

Yaqi Li
Urban single women in mainland China: A social critique

Ellie Munro
Continuity, adaptation and change within the local voluntary sector field in Birmingham, 1965-2015

Kristina Stoewe
Refugee entrepreneurship and integration: A comparative study of entrepreneurial refugees in German and British cities.

Health Services Management Centre

Jennifer Davies
Realizing leadership potential within the business and administration workforce in NHS Scotland 

Editor Musekiwa
The Impact of Personalised Health Budgets: an in-depth longitudinal case study with home care adult patients with complex healthcare needs

Liam Spalding

Street-Level Bureaucrats and Policy Implementation: A Study of Personalisation on the Frontline of the English NHS

Doctoral Researcher Diversity Network

 

Find out more about the Doctoral Researcher Diversity Network which is the first cross-University network for PhD students studying aspects of diversity.