Sociology PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students in Dundee

Ableism, Microaggressions and the Law

University of Dundee School of Education and Social Work

Studies in Ableism (SiA) is now a recognised sub-specialism of critical disability studies and focuses on ways that abledment (the process of being/becoming ‘abled’) is located within societal processes and practices. Read more

Supervisor: Prof F.K. Campbell

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Revealing Abledment: Ableism and the Body Politic

University of Dundee School of Education and Social Work

Studies in Ableism (SiA) is now a recognised sub-specialism of critical disability studies and focuses on ways that abledment (the process of being/becoming ‘abled’) is located within societal processes and practices. Read more

Supervisors: Prof F.K. Campbell, Prof G Pullin

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Sub-Continent Religious Traditions, Disability (Non-normative Bodies)

University of Dundee School of Education and Social Work

Miles (2013) estimates that at least half of all the world’s disabled people live Asia. Read more

Supervisor: Prof F.K. Campbell

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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When an adult with learning disability goes missing: a mixed methods study to inform prevention and response

Abertay University School of Applied Sciences

Individuals with learning disabilities can show wandering behaviours or have difficulties navigating independently, and with a reduced sense of danger they are vulnerable to a range of risks in the environment (e.g., roads/traffic, bodies of water, hiding) and victimisation. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Woolnough

19 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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An analysis of power and complexity within community development through the lens of Hot Chocolate Trust: how youth and community workers work with the expertise of communities in striving to impact on social inequalities.

University of Dundee School of Education and Social Work

Life for young people globally, in Scotland, and in Dundee is impacted by macro level challenges that create uncertainty and this profoundly affects those at the sharp end of social inequalities. Read more

Supervisor: Dr F Fernandes

19 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Scotland’s diaspora – was there social justice for the ‘failed’ immigrant in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

University of Dundee School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

The creation of clubs and societies organised around ethnicity characterised the Scottish diasporic experience, both for those who received alms and for those who sought a means through which to meet and socialise with other Scots. Read more

Supervisor: Prof G Morton

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Being a non-native speaker in a dynamic world: Language-related policy and its effects on people's cognition, wellbeing and other aspects of their lives

University of Dundee School of Social Sciences

PLEASE NOTE. This project is for self-funded or externally sponsored students only. It is quite common that a country or community has only one official language, or one overwhelmingly dominant official language amongst a few. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Y Kamide, Dr D. Stjepanovic

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Exploring cultural and structural factors that support equity, diversity, inclusion and respect in medical schools.

University of Dundee School of Medicine

There is growing recognition of the importance of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Respect (EDIR) issues captured formally in medical schools by the requirements of the Athena SWAN award, Stonewall and the Race Equality Charter. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L Gordon, Dr C Kennedy, Prof J Harvey

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Writing trans and non-binary lives in the 20th and 21st centuries: autobiography, autofiction, autotheory

University of Dundee School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

This research project aims to explore the ways in which trans and non-binary people have been using different approaches in writing about their lived experiences. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Gratzke

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Rethinking the concept of life. A dialogue with non-Western perspectives

University of Dundee School of Humanities

We are currently experiencing a resurgence of interest in metaphysical concepts that often remain stuck in Western modes of thinking. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Röck, Dr O. Keohane

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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21st century literary representations of love and relationships in works with themes of disabilities, long-term illness or neurodivergence

University of Dundee School of Humanities

The primary objective of this PhD project is to research the interaction in literature of love and relationships with themes of disabilities, ill-health or neurodivergence. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Gratzke

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The role of far-right narratives in mobilising support for violent political action

University of Dundee School of Social Sciences

The project aims to examine how different types of narratives might energise the supporters of the far-right movement and drive them to engage in political violence. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Bliuc

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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We have 12 Sociology PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students in Dundee

Sociology PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students in Dundee

We have 12 Sociology PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students in Dundee

University of Dundee

Ableism, Microaggressions and the Law

Revealing Abledment: Ableism and the Body Politic

Sub-Continent Religious Traditions, Disability (Non-normative Bodies)

When an adult with learning disability goes missing: a mixed methods study to inform prevention and response

An analysis of power and complexity within community development through the lens of Hot Chocolate Trust: how youth and community workers work with the expertise of communities in striving to impact on social inequalities.

Scotland’s diaspora – was there social justice for the ‘failed’ immigrant in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

Being a non-native speaker in a dynamic world: Language-related policy and its effects on people's cognition, wellbeing and other aspects of their lives

Exploring cultural and structural factors that support equity, diversity, inclusion and respect in medical schools.

Writing trans and non-binary lives in the 20th and 21st centuries: autobiography, autofiction, autotheory

Rethinking the concept of life. A dialogue with non-Western perspectives

21st century literary representations of love and relationships in works with themes of disabilities, long-term illness or neurodivergence

The role of far-right narratives in mobilising support for violent political action

We have 12 Sociology PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students in Dundee

Sociology PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students in Dundee

We have 12 Sociology PhD Research Projects for Self-funded Students in Dundee

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