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PhD Childhood Studies

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Full time | Colchester Campus | 4 years | OCT-23

Study mode

Full time

Duration

4 years

Start date

OCT-23

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

Subject areas

Children / Youth (Social Work) Youth Studies Learning Theory Child Psychology

Course type

Research

Course Summary

We offer research supervision in the following:

  • Children, psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic theory
  • Psychosocial Studies of children and childhood
  • Sociologies of childhood
  • Histories of children and childhood
  • Children, parenting, and families
  • Childhood, politics, and ideology
  • Ethical research with children
  • Childhood and identity
  • Children’s friendships and peers
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Geographies of childhood and youth
  • Children, media, and popular culture
  • Children with disabilities and critical disability studies
  • Children in/and refugee studies
  • Comparative childhoods
  • Childhood innocence
  • Child development
  • Trauma
  • Looked after children
  • Therapeutic communities

Our graduates in PPS go on to several 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.

Your future

Our graduates go on to several different destinations, including further study and training.

Many of our students are already professionals, clinical and non-clinical, so return to their existing fields, either in jobs or further training, and use study with us to deepen their understanding of their work.

Modules

Psychoanalytic Studies - Research - Core

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£5,900

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£17,900

Entry requirements

You will need a merit at masters degree level, or equivalent, in a related discipline. A well-developed research proposal is also essential.