University of Bradford, Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Until recently community based water institutions have been justified mainly on financial grounds and as mechanisms for delivering services in a context where state institutions have been withdrawing from this space due to neoliberal policy changes.

Eating Disorders in Men: Qualitative Analysis of UK Popular Media Coverage

University of Bradford
Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences

Research Group: Psychology

Dr R Delderfield, Dr P Branney

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

“Representations of Illness or Wounded Storytellers?” Research into male eating disorders is still considered to be in its infancy.

Exploring ‘child’ to parent violence

University of Bradford
Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences

Research Group: Criminology and Sociology

Prof C Rogers

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

To what extent is child to parent violence recognised within the legal system, as adults with challenging behaviours commit acts of violence against their parents and how is this experienced as an everyday occurrence?.

Exploring Intellectual impairment - challenging notions of human worth

University of Bradford
Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences

Research Group: Criminology and Sociology

Prof C Rogers

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

What makes us human? Are intellectually impaired people fully human and is ‘weak’ eugenics simply a form of human cleansing?. As rights to life and human worth are discussed via social media and within philosophy, sociology ought to engage with questions of human value.

Navigating contemporary parenting cultures (a critical psychological perspective)

University of Bradford
Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences

Research Group: Psychology

Prof A Locke

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

PhD applications (including a brief proposal) are currently being welcomed from students who wish to conduct research into parenting within contemporary society, in particular parenting under precarity.