Colchester Campus

University of Essex

PhD Childhood Studies

<div>We offer research supervision in the following: <ul><li>Children, psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic theory</li><li>Psychosocial Studies of children and childhood</li><li>Sociologies of childhood</li><li>Histories of children and childhood</li><li>Children, parenting, and families</li><li>Childhood, politics and ideology</li><li>Ethical research with children</li><li>Childhood and identity</li><li>Children’s friendships and peers</li><li>Gender and sexuality</li><li>Geographies of childhood and youth</li><li>Children, media, and popular culture</li><li>Children with disabilities and critical disability studies</li><li>Children in/and refugee studies</li><li>Comparative childhoods</li><li>Childhood innocence</li><li>Child development</li><li>Trauma</li><li>Looked after children</li><li>Therapeutic communities</li></ul>Our graduates in PPS go on to a number of different destinations, including further study and training. Many of our students are already professionals so return to their existing fields with deeper understanding of their work, using this for their personal development and for increasing their potential for promotion and leadership in their existing or new roles. We also offer an MPhil variation of this course.</div>

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PhD Childhood Studies

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