Applications should to be focussed around one (or more) of the faculty’s research themes: ageing and later life; children, young people, parents and families; death, dying and bereavement; living with disability and long term conditions; and Reproductive and sexual health. Below are some specific topics within each theme, we would welcome applications to these (and related) areas.
Ageing and later life
Age-friendly communities/Towns/ Cities
Planning for an ageing population
Meaning of home in later life
Home-sharing
Co-housing in later life
Use of domestic space in later life
Care work
Ageing and cultural capital
Children, young people, parents and families
Child protection, gender, fathers
Teenage and young adult (TYA) cancer survivors.
Fatherhood
Young masculinities
Young femininities
Young people and religious faith.
Young carers
Language brokers
Children and young people's wellbeing; health inequalities, participatory methods
‘different’ childhoods
Death, dying and bereavement
Miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death
Social context of death and dying including working in paid and volunteer roles in end of life care
The impact of gender on the delivery of end of life care.
Living with disability and long term conditions
The impact of long-term conditions, for example diabetes, depression or other psychological morbidity, MS or stroke on life-quality
Neurodiversity and critical approaches to autism
ADHD
Reproductive and sexual health
Postpartum psychosis