Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies in Criminology and Social Work
E-mail: socialwork@lancaster.ac.uk | criminology@lancaster.ac.uk
Research Degrees
PhD & Mphil by research, (full-time or part-time)
The Department of Applied Social Science has a very strong record in applied social research in social work, social policy, health and welfare, criminology, disability studies and applied sociology. Considerable emphasis is placed on linking theory, research, professional practice and service development in the Department's research and teaching activities. The Department was rated 5 in the 1996 and 2001 Research Assessment Exercises.
For more information about research degrees, please see our information for prospective students
Current Postgraduate Students
Recent Completions
2010
Vicky Albums PhD
Title: The Partial World of Coerced Treatment: Drug Users' Perspectives on the Drug Interventions Programme
Kellie Thompson PhD
Title: The Rhetoric and Realities of 'everyday' information practices in child welfare: detail & direction.
2009
Glenis Donaldson MPhil
Title: What can Physiotherapists Learn from Disabled People's Experiences of Rehabilitation Using a Social Model Perspective
Barbara Glover PhD
Title: Prison Staff and Disabled Prisoners: Potential Conflict in Role and Identity
Phil Johnson PhD
Title: Pragmatic Idealism: The Unpaid Work Element of a Community Order.
Julia Palmer MPhil
Title: The Transition to University: The Internet Experiences
of Prospective & New Students
2008
Donna Reeve
Title: Negotiating disability in everyday life: the theory of psycho-emotional disablism
2007
David Hoyle
Title: Constructions of 'truancy' in the British education service.
Joanne Wood
Title: Exploring the effectiveness of Multi-Agency public protection panels.
2005
Gary Jones
Title: Support to older people living in their own homes: a study of befriending.
Marinella Marmo
Title: European Criminal justice: Judicial Harmonisation Process in Italy and England and Wales.
Stephen Mee
Title: The evaluation of people with learning disability.
2004
Jeff Bartley
Title: Breaking the barriers of inactivity: cycling for people with learning difficulties.
Neil Clarke
Title: X-rays and blind spots: critical social science for health work, organisation and new technology.
Linda Gibson
Title: The mountain behind the clouds: an ethnography of the professionalisation and integration of alternative medicine in the UK.
Kiyoku Sueda
Title: Shame and pride behind face: Japanese returnees' negotiation of multiple identities.
2003
Elizabeth McDermott
Title: Hidden injuries, happy lives?: the influence of lesbian identity and social class on wellbeing.
Helena Sierra
Title: Trust in medicine: the dynamic nature of trust.
Fiona Smart
Title: The evolving role of the paediatric nurse practitioner and the potential, legitimacy and redundancy of the panoramic gaze: an interpretative enquiry.
2002
Claire Taylor
Title: The relationship between care and criminal careers.
2001
Graeme Chesters
Title: Criminal resistance: an analysis of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and its effects on social movement networks in Britain.
Lesley Seddon
Title: The comparative efficacy of counselling and complementary therapy in cancer care: a pragmatic enquiry.
2000
Muhammad Tanweer Abdullah
Title: An analysis of the challenging environment of inter-agency collaboration for primary health care in Pakistan.
Alison McLeod
Title: Listening but not hearing: barriers to effective communication between young people in care and social workers.
Anthony Ryan
Title: Risk Perceptions Associated with Mental Illness and the Risk Management Strategies of Service Users and their Carers.
1999
Diane Nutt
Title: Women Without Children: Their Family and Friendship Networks.
Claire Woodward
Title: Being Visible: Representations of Self and Identity within Personal Experience Narratives of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
1998
Lisa Bostock
Title: "It's Catch-22 All the Time: Mothers' Experiences of Caring on Low Income In the 1990s.
Heather D'Cruz
Title: Constructing meanings and identities in practice: child protection in western Australia.
Chris Grover
Title: In-Work Benefits: Social Security, Social Regulation and Capital Accumulation, 1988-1997.
Steve Hicks
Title: Familiar fears: the Assessment of Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption Applicants.
Guy Masters
Title: Reintegrative Shaming in theory and practice: thinking about feeling in criminology.
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