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City campus, sunderland, united kingdom, 24 months program duration, 10,000 gbp tuition fee/year, art and design main subject area, program overview, main subject.

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The University offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate programmes across 20 subject areas. The University’s areas of academic strength include:

Technology (including Advanced Manufacturing, Engineering and Computer Science); Health Sciences and Wellbeing (including Nursing, Pharmacy and Paramedic Practice); Education and Society; Business, Law and Tourism; and Arts and Creative Industries. Our new School of Medicine will open in Sunderland in September 2019.

Details of our courses can be found here:

https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/study/subject-areas/

Most of our undergraduate students studying at Sunderland and London are from the UK. However, our undergraduate student community is diverse with a large international student community on campus, and also students studying for undergraduate degrees with partner institutions around the world. 

Our campus in Hong Kong offers a range of vocationally orientated degree programmes relevant to the local market.

Across all of our locations we equip graduates with the skills, knowledge and behaviors relevant to employers and the work place. 

Our students are exposed to professional engagement throughout their learning. Professional mentors provide welcome advice and guidance and an employer’s perspective. Placements and work experience are integral elements of many of our undergraduate programmes, and masterclasses delivered by employers offer insight into the skills they seek when employing graduates. This all adds to the richness of our curriculum.  

We received a Silver Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) rating in 2017. The assessors identified our “institutional culture that facilitates excellent teaching”. We were also recognised for our students’ exposure to professional practice, which enhances their personal development and overall experience

Our teaching is informed by research and engagement with employers, ensuring our graduates are equipped with the skills required to succeed in their chosen career or path to further study. Several of our academics have been recognised as National Teaching Fellows in acknowledgement of their outstanding impact on student learning and teaching. We have established a Centre for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching to support our academics in their continuous professional development.

We are engaged with new developments in the area of inter-disciplinary learning as we work to deliver programmes of relevance for our graduates of the future.

93.4% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months following graduation according to data collected for the Destinations of Leavers of Higher Education survey (2018).

Undergraduate student satisfaction is high with 84% overall satisfaction - (National Student Survey 2018).

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Our postgraduate offer comprises a range of subject disciplines and levels of study. This includes Masters level, MA, MSc, MBA, MPhil and PhDs, Professional and Higher Doctorates.Student satisfaction for postgraduate taught students is assessed through an annual student survey - The Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey.  In 2018 the results for Sunderland were positive with the University reporting higher levels of satisfaction in comparison to the sector average in the following categories: teaching; engagement; assessment and feedback; dissertation; organization and management; resources and services; skills development and information provision. We have a growing postgraduate degree community including a significant number of postgraduate research students and a highly acclaimed work based Professional Doctorate programme.Research inspires and drives our academic community; it delivers outstanding outcomes for the student experience and plays an influential supporting role in developing economies and societies regionally, nationally and globally. We have 10 research areas with world leading recognition.  The full range of postgraduate programmes can be found at: https://www.sunderland.ac.uk/study/subject-areas/

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We supervise a wide range of doctoral topics within the Department of Social Sciences.

If you're interested in undertaking a doctorate with us, take a look at the information below which shows the work supervisors are currently supporting and what topics they're interested in working with. You can use the links to view their profiles for more information.

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Dr Athanasia Chatzifotiou is currently supervising doctoral studies in the field of education. Dr Chatzifotiou is particularly interested in supervising projects on the following areas:

• Environmental education
• Education for sustainability
• Primary national curriculum
• Primary school teachers' practices
• Qualitative analysis
• Educational policies.

Dr Lesley Deacon   is currently supervising doctoral work on hospital social work practice, spirituality in social work, and neurodiversity. Dr Deacon is interested in supporting doctoral work in the following areas:

• Neurodiversity
• Practice-focused research in health and social care, especially practitioner-led
• Authentic service user engagement and practice development
• Evaluation of human service organisations and service delivery
• Families’ experiences of navigating welfare systems
• Social work theory and practice with children/adults/carers
• Safeguarding children, especially at its intersection with neurodiversity
• Supporting people with complex needs
• Methodology: qualitative, specifically lived experiences, and pragmatism.

Dr Matt Durey  supervises doctoral work on women’s experience of middle age and is particularly interested in supporting students in the following areas:

• Cultural and creative industries
• Postindustrial cities and culture
• Everyday experiences of cities and landscapes
• Sociologies of the everyday
• Quantitative/qualitative methods, narrative methods, ethnographic methods, complexity and realist theory and methods.

Dr Liz Henry is interested in supervising doctoral students in topics related to environmental psychology, in particular the following areas:

• Person-place relationships (e.g., place attachment, place dependence, place identity)
• Restorative environments
• Green/blue/grey spaces
• Barriers and facilitators to accessing place
• Wellbeing (theories and measures)
• Determinants of behaviour and behaviour change.

Dr Sarah Lonbay   is currently supervising doctoral work that's focused on how adult safeguarding is performed with adults who lack mental capacity and work that's exploring the concept of resilience in relation to self harm. Dr Lonbay is also supervising work that's using a Mad Studies framework to explore people’s experiences of accessing mental health services and a further project which is utilising a life course approach to explore women’s experiences of midlife. Dr Lonbay is interested in supporting doctoral work in the following areas:

• Adult safeguarding and adult abuse (particularly elder abuse)
• Domestic abuse and older people
• Participation, advocacy, co-production
• Ageing and older people
• Mental health
• Adult social care and social work
• Vulnerability
• Participatory research and co-production
• Creative methodologies and qualitative approaches.

Dr Bruce Marjoribanks   supervises doctoral work exploring health inequalities in Ethiopia, and international student experiences. Dr Marjoribanks is interested in supervising work in the following areas:

• Sociology of education
• Internationalisation of the curriculum
• Research methods
• Multicultural and minority education
• Diversity issues
• Childhood studies.

Dr Ben Middleton  supervises students exploring the link between populism and far right violence in the UK. Dr Middleton is interested in supporting work that considers:

• Counter-terrorism law and policy
• Comparative counter-terrorism studies
• Public law and constitutionalism (control of executive power, judicial review, the role of the courts)
• Police powers and human rights
• Definitions of terrorism
• Policing and security
• Protection of human rights.

Dr Jerry Pearson   is currently supervising doctoral work on the rise of populism and associated links to right wing extremism. Dr Pearson is interested in supporting work that considers:

• Foreign national offending
• International criminality
• Brexit and the implications of EU exit on British policing
• Police contingency planning
• The management of serious and organised criminality
• Police critical incident management, police ethics, and counter-corruption
• Firearms command
• Inspection and governance of police forces
• Safeguarding and serious case reviews.

Dr Sheila Quaid is currently supervising work exploring domestic violence in Nigeria, integration of technology into secondary school education in British Virgin Islands UK, motherhood and academia, child health inequalities in Ethiopia, and women returning to work after pregnancy (discrimination). Dr Quaid is interested in supervising work in the following areas:

• Gender inequalities
• Domestic violence
• Sociology of families and personal lives
• Culture and representation
• Same sex parenting
• Children raised by same sex parents
• Critical pedagogies in social sciences.

Dr Nicola Roberts is currently supervising doctoral work on offender desistance. Dr Roberts has a range of experience and is particularly interested in supervising work on:

• Perceptions and strategies of safety in the urban environment
• Sexual harassment and assault in public spaces
• Rehabilitation and resettlement of people convicted of domestic abuse and child sex offences
• The Probation Service and Approved Premises
• Bystander training/interventions
• Universities, students' safety, and reports of interpersonal violence and abuse
• Methodologies: evaluations of interventions, statistical analysis, Foucauldian discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, and institutional ethnography.

Dr Tom Rodgers supervises students who are exploring mad studies, cultural criminology, social media, and mediated violence/crime. Dr Rodgers is also interested in supervising work in the following areas:

• Critical/social/criminological theory
• Violence, hatred, and social harm
• Political economy
• Value and values
• Digital/social media
• Video games
• Ethnography/webnography
• Time-space diary methods (quant and qual)
• Mixed methods.

Dr Diane Simpson is currently supporting doctoral students looking at social work (in particular social justice and poverty) and also in forensic radiography. Dr Simpson is interested in supervising doctorates in the following areas:

• Social work practice (children's social care) including harmful sexual behaviours
• Academic identities
• Foucauldian theory
• Qualitative research.

Dr Angela Wilcock   is interested in supporting doctoral work in the following areas:

• Domestic violence including help-seeking, love, and coercive and controlling behaviour
• Feminist methodology including emotionality and the impact on the researcher and the researched
• Offender management including criminogenic need and reducing reoffending pathways.

Dr Helen Williams is currently supervising doctoral work on the dating experiences of transwomen and on gender and race in the #metoo movement. Dr Williams is also interested in supervising qualitative doctoral work in the following areas:

• Sexual violence and witness credibility in the criminal justice system
• People with learning disabilities/neurodiversity as victims of crime and in the criminal justice system
• Sexual cultures, sexual stigma, slut shaming
• Gendered and classed identities
• Sex and relationship education
• Sex work and criminal justice.

Dr Nathan Keates (London Campus) is open to supervising doctoral work. Dr Keates is interested in supporting doctoral work in the following areas:

• Autistic mental health/distress and wellbeing
• Dementia and carers
• Neurodivergent lives and their life course
• Inclusive pedagogy.

Dr Marc Husband is currently supervising doctoral work regarding human trafficking and exploitation. Dr Husband is also interested in supervising work in the following areas:

• Youth and community work/informal education
• Music-focused informal education
• Medium theory and social media
• Critical pedagogies
• Exploitation
• Dyslexia and the educational experiences.

Dr Kevin Smith is interested in supervising doctoral students in the following topics relating to investigative psychology:

• Victim and witness interview strategies
• Victim and witness interviews
• The management of trauma in criminal investigations
• Vulnerable victims, witnesses, and survivors
• Child and vulnerable adult abuse investigations.

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Computing PhD

University of sunderland, different course options.

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Course Summary

Tuition fees, entry requirements, similar courses at different universities, key information data source : idp connect, qualification type.

PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

Subject areas

Computer Science

Course type

A PhD is “probably the most internationally transferable qualification” according to the Higher Education Policy Institute.

You will critically investigate your chosen topic in great depth, with support, guidance and encouragement from our supervisory team. Crucially, your investigation should result in the creation and interpretation of knowledge which extends the forefront of your discipline. It should make an original contribution to knowledge.

Increasingly, a doctorate is an essential requirement for recruitment and promotion in university teaching roles. More broadly, a PhD is a life-changing programme that trains you to think at a deep level while you become an expert on a particular topic. It is quite possible that you will end up knowing more about that topic than almost anyone else in the country.

You have the option to study this programme at our Sunderland campus or possibly via distance learning.

• A PhD is highly advisable if you are considering a career as an academic
• We're ranked 2nd in the UK for students’ overall satisfaction with their research degree programme according to the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2018
• You have the option to study this programme at our Sunderland campus or possibly via distance learning

UK fees Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

International fees Course fees for EU and international students

The normal entry requirement for a research degree is a UK honours degree (first or upper second class) or a UK Masters degree or a qualification which is regarded as equivalent. We will consider candidates with other qualifications, looking at evidence of academic ability such as published work.

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