Program Overview

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We offer research supervision in the following:

• Children, psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic theory
• Psychosocial Studies of children and childhood
• Sociologies of childhood
• Histories of children and childhood
• Children, parenting, and families
• Childhood, politics and ideology
• Ethical research with children
• Childhood and identity
• Children’s friendships and peers
• Gender and sexuality
• Geographies of childhood and youth
• Children, media, and popular culture
• Children with disabilities and critical disability studies
• Children in/and refugee studies
• Comparative childhoods
• Childhood innocence
• Child development
• Trauma
• Looked after children
• Therapeutic communities

Our graduates in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies go on to a number of different destinations, including further study and training. Many of our students are already professionals so return to their existing fields with deeper understanding of their work, using this for their personal development and for increasing their potential for promotion and leadership in their existing or new roles. Why we're great.

• High quality research and teaching that is grounded in academic research and professional and clinical practice.
• A supportive and enabling academic environment for graduate studies with excellent training and development opportunities
• Access to Freud’s original letters and research for your studies

Our expert staff

Within our Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies , you will be allocated a supervisor whose role it is to guide you through the different stages of your research degree. In some cases, you may have joint supervision by two members of our staff (which may include co-supervision from colleagues located in another department). The support provided by your supervisor is a key feature of your research student experience and you will have regular one-to-one meetings to discuss progress on your research. Twice a year, you will have a supervisory panel meeting, which provides a more formal opportunity to discuss your progress and agree your plans for the next six months.

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Specialist facilities

If you are studying within our Department, you will have access to our extensive facilities to aid your learning and research. In particular, our Albert Sloman Library is well stocked with books, journals, electronic resources and major archives relevant to our work and, in addition, we have our own library of specialist books and journals.

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Your future

Our graduates go on to a number of different destinations, including further study and training. Many of our students are already professionals, clinical and non-clinical, so return to their existing fields, either in jobs or further training, and use study with us to deepen their understanding of their work.