Research Degree Supervision and teaching

PhD supervision

•  Legislative and policy change in children and families services (Annie Huntington, completed)
•  Health and welfare issues in the transgender community (Christine Hartley, completed)
• Experiences of mental illness among older Pakistanis (Nazir Hussain, completed)
• Personal biography and stress in Mental Health Nurses (Robert Little, completed)
• Legislative and policy change in professional social work (Jane Heyes, completed)
• Full of empty promises? An exploration of the positive intention of drug use for the individual (Jane Graham, submitted)
• The meaning of local area regeneration for older people’s lives (Stefanie Buckner, in progress)
• Participatory Popular Theatre, values and psychiatry (Evette Hutchinson, in progress)
  

Teaching and related activities:

Core Psychosocial Studies Module on the BA Social Work
This course, which comprises a lecture programme and small seminar groups, introduces student to the challenge of thinking from experience with the support of key psychosocial and psychosocietal theories and concepts.

Input into the Master in Social Work programme
(including ‘Understanding Human Beings’ and ‘Health and Welfare: Theories and Concepts’ modules)

PRU members have supervised MASW dissertations.  Topics have
includes a variety of practice-based enquries such as a psychosocial approach to understanding self-harm.

Development of research outputs into teaching resources (funded by UCLAN Research Resource Enhancement Scheme)