PhD Social Sciences
A Masters by Research or Doctorate in Social Sciences here in the School of Natural & Social Sciences at Gloucestershire enables students to focus on social vulnerabilities and overcoming harms, including interpersonal violence, restorative justice, and inequalities.
Conduct your own piece of research in social sciences. Contribute to knowledge in the sector while improving your professional practice and developing advanced academic skills and knowledge. Our social sciences research draws from the disciplines of sociology, criminology, human geography, demography, development studies, education, and psychology.
Research areas include:
Public protection
- Domestic abuse and homicide
- Stalking
- Serious sexual assault
- Disclosure of childhood sexual violence
- Child sexual exploitation
- Support for victims of violence
- Offender management and treatment
Stronger and safer communities
- Restorative justice
- Policing and the community
- Crime and antisocial behaviour in the night time economy
- Police professionalisation
- Social and supported housing
- Asset-based community development
- Feminist activism
- Citizenship, exclusion and belonging
Identities
- ‘Race’ and citizenship intersectionality
- Diaspora and identities
- Cultural and critical criminology
- Online social-sexual networks of gay, bisexual and queer men
- Social media and drug markets
- Drag identities
- Masculinity and military identities
- Cultural heritage and youth identities
A Masters by Research or Doctorate in Social Sciences here in the School of Natural & Social Sciences at Gloucestershire enables students to focus on social vulnerabilities and overcoming harms, including interpersonal violence, restorative justice, and inequalities.
Conduct your own piece of research in social sciences. Contribute to knowledge in the sector while improving your professional practice and developing advanced academic skills and knowledge. Our social sciences research draws from the disciplines of sociology, criminology, human geography, demography, development studies, education, and psychology.
Research areas include:
Public protection
- Domestic abuse and homicide
- Stalking
- Serious sexual assault
- Disclosure of childhood sexual violence
- Child sexual exploitation
- Support for victims of violence
- Offender management and treatment
Stronger and safer communities
- Restorative justice
- Policing and the community
- Crime and antisocial behaviour in the night time economy
- Police professionalisation
- Social and supported housing
- Asset-based community development
- Feminist activism
- Citizenship, exclusion and belonging
Identities
- ‘Race’ and citizenship intersectionality
- Diaspora and identities
- Cultural and critical criminology
- Online social-sexual networks of gay, bisexual and queer men
- Social media and drug markets
- Drag identities
- Masculinity and military identities
- Cultural heritage and youth identities
