The course is assessed through assignments. You will be required to attend a total of 9 single day workshops over the year, supported by evening reading groups that meet each term. Learning is also supported through online tutorials, an asynchronous online discussion forum and an electronic course notice-board. You will have access to a vast stock of books and electronic journals from the university, home or the workplace for the duration of the course.
RESEARCH AND RESEARCH DEGREES We welcome applications for PhD and MPhil degrees in the research areas described below from well-qualified, able and enthusiastic students. Our procedures are designed to give candidates as much information as possible about research in the department and to allow us to make judgements as to a candidate’s ability to undertake research at this level. Supervisors are matched with research students on the basis of active research interests, experience and relevant expertise.
MPhil/PhD
Director of Research Studies: Dr Fiona Measham. Entry Requirements: A Masters level qualification or an upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent and a viable research proposal. We are keen to support good applicants in the process of completing their research applications. Please approach us at any stage for advice. Assessment: Original research and thesis. IELTS: 6.5 Funding: ESRC Case Studentships - see also page 213. Further Information:
www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/apsocsci
We have an established research record in several areas: Drugs
Crime and the criminal justice process Youth offending Disability studies Theories of welfare Gender and sexuality Child and family care Community care Social work Hate crime Racist violence
Recent work in all areas of strength has been informed by a growing emphasis on issues of equal opportunities, social justice, poverty and social exclusion. We also have various joint research projects with other departments and are interested in promoting collaborative research.
The Applied Social Science Unit of Research and Evaluation (ASSURE) is also based in the Department. Members of staff have developed considerable expertise in offering a form of community-based evaluation which provides ongoing, systematic information that strengthens projects during their life cycle, and, whenever possible, outcome data to assess the extent of change. The primary purpose of community- based evaluation is to identify problems and opportunities in the project’s host communities, and to provide staff and stakeholders with reliable information from which to address problems and build on strengths and opportunities. The Department welcomes applications from students wishing to undertake their research degree within this unit.
STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr Karen Broadhurst: Philosophy of social research, the practice/research interface, the definition and delivery of family support, adoption and fostering, decision-making in public services.
Dr Claire Fitzpatrick: Youth justice; children in care; youth offending. Dr Luca Follis: Penology; the history of the prison; Foucault; human rights.
Dr Chris Grover: The press reporting of sexual offences; social policy and criminology; social security and welfare reform; the national childcare strategy.
Dr Paul Iganski: Hate crime; racist violence; human rights and civil liberties; racism; antisemitism; cultural ciminology.
Dr Stuart Kirby: Offender profiling; policing (serious and organised crime); multi-agency responses to community safety and situational crime prevention.
Claire Mason: Child protection and family support.
Prof Corinne May-Chahal: Child care, human rights, gambling, family justice.
Dr Fiona Measham: Alcohol and illicit drug use; cultural and historical criminology; research methods.
Dr Karenza Moore: Gender and deviance; socio-cultural representations of new technologies; recreational drugs – local and global criminal cultures.
Hannah Morgan: Disability studies; citizenship; qualitative methods; EU law and policy.
Dr Ian Paylor: Social exclusion; youth; drugs; income maintenance; the relationship between crime and social factors.
Dr Sue Penna: Welfare governance: social theory: globalisation and EU policy; organised crime.
Bob Sapey: Disability, technologies, community care.
Prof David Smith: Criminal justice policy; criminology; social work with offenders.
Dr Carolyn Taylor: Children, childhood and child development; social work processes and interventions; assessment; critical reflection; ethics and values in professional practice.
Prof Sue Wise: Equal opportunities; feminist theory; lesbian and gay issues in social policy; new social movements.
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