| Qualifications |
Duration |
Start dates |
Application period |
| PhD or Professional doctorate |
PhD:
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
Professional doctorate:
Part-time: 4–8 years |
October |
November to January |
Qualifications
PhD or Professional doctorate |
Duration
PhD:
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
Professional doctorate:
Part-time: 4–8 years |
Start dates
October |
Application period
November to January |
Our work in this theme ranges from research into experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, to the experiences of men who pay for sex. Key themes include the relationship between the body, health, and identity; masculinities; reproductive decision making and cancer/chronic conditions; contraception and abortion; and the understanding of reproductive and sexual health across the life course. All the research in this theme is underpinned by a commitment to understanding, challenging, and improving practice in reproductive and sexual health care.
Entry requirements
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) and an MA or research methods training at MA level (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.
Potential research projects
- Disability, sexuality and reproduction
- Experiences of reproductive loss (to include abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth and neonatal death)
- Abortion discourses, decision-making and experiences
- Infant feeding, reproductive choice and control
- Sexuality, reproduction and living with long-term conditions
- Sexuality, reproduction and learning disability
- Reproductive decision making as a result of cancer or chronic conditions
- Sex, sexuality and sex work
- HIV and sexually transmitted infections
- LGBT health and wellbeing
- Maternity care, midwifery and reproduction
- Teenage pregnancy
- Contraception
Current/recent research projects
- What role, if any, do club drugs play in negotiation of safer sex practices among MSM?
- Growing up with HIV
- Midwives and mothers: reproductive identities and experiences
- ‘Good Sex’, health outcomes and self-esteem
- Women with learning disabilities and sexuality
- Sexuality for people with life-limiting conditions
- Safe sex, masculinities and MSM
- Teenage motherhood in Nigeria.
Potential supervisors
Fees and funding
PhD fees
| UK fee |
International fee |
| Full-time: £4,786 per year |
Full-time: £12,146 per year |
| Part-time: £2,393 per year |
Part-time: £6,073 per year |
Professional doctorate fees
| UK fee |
International fee |
| Part-time: £3,643 per year |
Part-time: £9,250 per year |
Some of our research students are funded via The Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.
For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.
To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.
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