Conflict, Security and Justice (Advert Reference NINE24/BRANLEY-BELL)
The Conflict, Security &
Justice pathway at Northumbria University is situated within the Department of
Psychology, offering an enriching research environment conducive to ambitious,
cross-disciplinary, and innovative PhD proposals. The Psychology department
boasts a vibrant community of globally recognised academics, renowned for their
cutting-edge research; rated as 'internationally excellent' and 'world-leading'
in the latest Research Excellence Framework (2021).
A standout feature within the
department is the Psychology and Communication Technology Lab (PaCT Lab) - one
of few research and training facilities in the UK embedded within a psychology
department. PaCT Lab has secured over £20 million in research grants,
addressing the intersection of technology and human behaviour (e.g., research
relating to healthcare technology, artificial intelligence, social media,
mobile devices, cyberinsurance). Notably, the lab has made significant
contributions to the fields of cybersecurity, eHealth, privacy, trust, and
behaviour change.
We welcome PhD proposals
encompassing various aspects of conflict, security, and/or justice, provided
they adopt a psychological approach. We actively encourage proposals that
explore the intersection between technology and issues pertaining to these
topics. This provides wide scope for creative and cross-disciplinary proposals.
We provide expert supervision by
internationally leading researchers. For more information or to discuss your
application please contact Dr Dawn Branley-Bell. dawn.branley-bell@northumbria.ac.uk
Criminology, Prisons and Policing (Advert Reference NINE24/HALL)
The
Criminology, Prisons and Policing pathway at Northumbria is located in the
Department of Social Sciences, which was recently rated 3rd in the
UK for research power. The Department is home to a large and diverse team of
criminologists working at the cutting-edge of the discipline. Academic staff
and research students collaborate across institutions, disciplines and sectors,
co-producing knowledge with a range of external partners and policymakers.
Colleagues have been instrumental in significant and pioneering work on social
harm, green criminology, policing, drugs, social disorder, and criminological
theory. This includes the work of the Centre for Crime and Policing, which
provides world-leading research on key 21st century challenges
including online and digital crime, terrorism, environmental crime, organised
crime, gender-based violence, and the impact of crime and harm on vulnerable
communities. Much of this is cross-national and extends beyond the remit of police
services and the criminal justice sector.
We welcome
ambitious and imaginative PhD proposals on all aspects of crime, harm and
justice. Proposals that are interdisciplinary and collaborative in nature are
particularly encouraged. For more information or to discuss your application
please contact Dr Alex Hall. alex.hall@northumbria.ac.uk
Human Geography (Advert Reference NINE24/CASSIDY)
The Human Geography pathway at Northumbria is
located within the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences which
offers a rich research environment for ambitious, cross-disciplinary and
imaginative proposals for PhD study. Departmental research spans human
geography's sub-disciplines, with particular expertise in: activism and
resistance; urban geographies; mobilities, migration and bordering; historical
geographies; political cultural economy; development geographies; identities
and inequalities; political ecology; critical security studies; and media
geographies. The Department is home to the Social and Cultural Geographies
Research Group, whose work explores radical and critical approaches in human
geography to develop a more in-depth understanding of global injustices and the
struggles of those seeking to challenge them. The Centre for Global Development
is also based in the Department, and we have research expertise spanning
diverse geographical regions, including across Europe, Asia, the Americas,
and Africa.
We encourage PhD proposals which will examine
context-sensitive approaches to tackling global injustices - environmental,
social, economic, political - in their multiple and differentiated forms and
which draw on decolonial, creative and participatory methodologies.
We provide expert supervision by
internationally leading researchers. For more information or to discuss your
application please contact Professor Kathryn Cassidy. kathryn.cassidy@northumbria.ac.uk
Environment,
Climate and Sustainability (Advert Reference NINE24/JENKINS)
The
Environment, Climate and Sustainability pathway at Northumbria is located
within the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences which offers a
rich research environment for ambitious, cross-disciplinary and imaginative
proposals for PhD study. The Department brings together the subject areas of
Human Geography, Environmental Sciences and Physical Geography, with scholars
working on a wide range of subjects related to global development; the climate
crisis and climate adaptation; energy futures; ecology; biodiversity;
nature-based solutions and responses to environmental degradation;
volunteering, activism, and civil society. Our research expertise spans diverse
geographical regions and ecosystems (air, land and water), including across
Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and the Polar regions.
We
encourage PhD proposals which seek to understand the diverse ways in which
individuals, communities, policymakers, and civil society are impacted by and
responding to the challenges of environmental degradation and pollution, the
climate crisis, large-scale resource extraction, biodiversity and habitat loss,
water scarcity, conflict, migration and displacement, and how they are
envisioning more just and sustainable development futures. Interdisciplinary
proposals that aim to work across Human Geography, Environmental Sciences
and/or Physical Geography are especially welcome.
We
provide expert supervision by internationally leading researchers. For more
information or to discuss your application please contact Professor Katy
Jenkins. katy.jenkins@northumbria.ac.uk
Environmental Planning (Advert Reference NINE24/HILL)
The Environmental Planning pathway at Northumbria is located within the
Department of Architecture and Built Environment which offers a rich research
environment for ambitious, cross-disciplinary and imaginative proposals for PhD
study.
The department offers research strengths around areas such as futures,
digital planning, and both urban and rural sustainability. MOBIE–Northumbria
Homes for the Future Innovation Centre is primarily focused on transforming
regional home building but also focuses on how community needs, and residents’
needs are met. A strong co-productive research agenda governs our approach to
the matters.
For more information or to discuss your application please contact Dr
Mick Hill. michael.hill@northumbria.ac.uk
Health, Wellbeing and Society (Advert Reference
NINE24/WILSON-MENZFELD)
The Health, Wellbeing and Society Pathway at
Northumbria is located within the Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Health,
providing a vibrant research environment in which more than 80% of research
activity is rated as world leading or internationally excellent. The Department
offers a strong cross-disciplinary research focus which brings together
practitioner researchers and social scientists engaging in health and social
carerelated research. Examples of areas of significant research activity
include integrated health and social care, workforce development, health
inequalities and the social determinants of health, healthy ageing, health
economics, patient safety, implementation science, and military veterans and
families health.
We would encourage PhD proposals which aim to
examine health and health and social care provision and practices in their
widest sense via interdisciplinary approaches which demand integration of
practice-led concerns with those of health-related social sciences (including
e.g. health economics, health policy, health psychology, medical geography,
medical sociology, social gerontology, social epidemiology, sociology, social
policy, social work and education). For more information please contact Dr Gemma
Wilson-Menzfeld. gemma.wilson-menzfeld@northumbria.ac.uk
Law (Advert Reference NINE24/BESSANT)
The Law pathway at Northumbria
is located within the Department of Law which offers a rich research
environment for ambitious, cross-disciplinary and imaginative proposals for PhD
study. Northumbria Law School is one of the largest law
schools in the UK and is ranked 7th amongst UK law schools for research power
in REF 2021. We have a national and
international reputation for excellence in legal education, enriched by the
research excellence and professional practice expertise of our staff. All staff
belong to one of three research groupings: Law & Society, Centre for
Evidence & Criminal Justice; Law in Emerging Contexts (encompassing space,
cyber and environmental law). We encourage PhD proposals that broadly align
with the activities of one or more of our three research centres. We encourage
PhD proposals which reflect these departmental research interests.
We provide expert supervision by
internationally leading researchers. For more information or to discuss your
application please contact Dr Claire Bessant. claire.bessant@northumbria.ac.uk
Management, Business and
Economics (Advert Reference NINE24/VARLEY)
The Management,
Business and Economics pathway at Northumbria is located within the Newcastle
Business School which offers a rich research environment for ambitious,
cross-disciplinary and imaginative proposals for PhD study. NBS
research is wide-ranging and multidisciplinary. For example, the business
school numbers leading business historians, consumer behaviourists, sociologist
sand human geographers amongst its research groups and departments, as well as
more traditional areas of expertise.
We therefore
particularly encourage PhD proposals which will examine the social contexts in
which organisations and businesses operate, and the responses of those who
might consume their services. Further, we would welcome studies seeking to
explore the business world from alternative contexts and which celebrate
marginalised and ignored voices, from service workers to consumer typologies
and associated entrepreneurial endeavours.
We provide
expert supervision by internationally leading researchers. For more information
or to discuss your application please contact Professor Peter Varley. peter.varley@northumbria.ac.uk
Psychology (Advert Reference
NINE24/O’BRIEN)
The Psychology pathway at
Northumbria is located within the Department of Psychology which offers a rich
research environment for ambitious, cross-disciplinary and imaginative
proposals for PhD study.
The Department offers three
Clusters of research activity and expertise: Cognition and Neuroscience, Health
and Wellbeing, and Evolution and Social Interaction. Within those clusters are
specialised research groups which bring together researchers engaging in work
in focused areas, including developmental disability, forensic, health
behaviour, hoarding, language and communication, memory, neuroscience,
nutrition, perception, psychobiology, psychopathology, sleep and social
psychology.
We encourage PhD proposals which
will examine the human mind and behaviour, specifically exploring psychological
phenomena and practices that are experienced by people across society. We
provide expert supervision by internationally leading researchers. For more
information or to discuss your application please contact Dr Nicki O’Brien. nicki.obrien@northumbria.ac.uk
Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work (Advert Reference
NINE24/WIPER)
The Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work pathway at Northumbria
is located across the Department of Social Sciences and the Department of
Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing. Both departments offer rich
research environments for ambitious, cross-disciplinary and imaginative
proposals for PhD study.
The Department of Social Sciences is a leading centre for creative
academic research, and works in partnership with a broader range of
stakeholders, from domestic abuse charities to homelessness groups. We
encourage PhD proposals which examine pressing challenges facing our
communities, including (but not limited to) wellbeing and happiness; work and
employment; activism around class, gender and the environment; media and
digital-related topics; oppression of marginalised groups; and any aspects of
gender-based violence.
We provide expert supervision by internationally leading
researchers. For more information or to discuss your application please contact
Dr Clare Wiper. clare2.wiper@northumbria.ac.uk
Sport and Society (Advert
Reference NINE24/POTRAC)
The Sport and Society pathway at Northumbria is located within
the Department of Sports, Exercise and Rehabilitation which offers a rich
research environment for ambitious, cross-disciplinary and imaginative
proposals for PhD study. Ranked 5th nationally
for Research power in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, the Department
prioritises the generation of research addressing the challenges,
opportunities, and dilemmas encountered by participants, practitioners,
educators, and policy makers in a wide range of sport, exercise and
rehabilitation contexts (i.e., high performance, community, and recreational
organisations and settings). Example of our social science inquiry include a)
the cultural, socio-emotional, and pedagogical, dimensions of sporting
experience and sports work, b) power-relations and social influence in
organisational life, c) the social and emotional well-being of performers,
participants, volunteers, and practitioners, and d) the micro-level enactment
of sport, health and recreation policies.
We encourage PhD proposals which will critically examine the
relationship between sport and society, especially those that connect practice
and policy-led concerns with those of sport related social sciences (e.g.,
sport coaching and pedagogy, the sociology of sport, sport management, and the
social-psychology of sport). Examples include a) embodying, juggling and
managing emotions in everyday practice, b) inequality in sports volunteering,
c) the enactment of physical education policies, and d) the social and
relational complexity of leadership and management work in high performance
and/or community sport organisations. Applicants are encouraged to visit the
staff/supervisor profile pages on our Department webpages for further
information.
We provide expert supervision by internationally leading
researchers. For more information or to discuss your application please contact
Professor Paul Potrac. paul.potrac@northumbria.ac.uk