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Community Care MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Social and Community Care subject area.
Key facts
- Subject area: Social and Community Care
- Location: Canterbury
- School: Tizard Centre (SSPSSR)
- Duration: MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees: More info
- Entry requirements: A 1 or 2.1 in a relevant subject. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Outline
The Centre offers excellent opportunities for full or part-time research in intellectual disability and community care leading to higher degrees.
The Tizard Centre has a strong track record of attracting ESRC research studentship funding, The Centre is also recognised for CASE awards, which are advertised separately.
You should send an outline of your research proposal with your application.
Programme structure
For further information see the School site.
Funding
Every school at Kent offers one or two University postgraduate research scholarships, each available for three years, providing fees at the home/EU rate and a stipend up to £13,590 per annum (2011/12 rate).
Many schools offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate research students receive financial support in return for teaching. The value of awards may vary, but often cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a substantial maintenance grant.
All postgraduate research students are eligible to apply for GTAs. See Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
The Tizard Centre has sustained considerable success in attracting Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) research and CASE studentship funding. SSPSSR also offers a number of scholarships and awards for research students.
For further details of postgraduate funding, see Postgraduate funding.
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Resources and facilities
All teaching takes place at the Tizard Centre.
The Centre has its own video equipment and computer-based systems for analysing video footage. Postgraduate research students have a shared office space with a computer and telephone.
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Staff research
Dr Julie Beadle-Brown: Reader in Learning Disability
Autism and social impairment in learning disability; the implementation of active support in services; the effect of grouping people in services; personcentred approaches; exclusion of people with challenging behaviour from services.
Dr Mecca Chiesa: Lecturer in Learning Disabilities
Behaviour analysis generally, and particularly in precision teaching, fluency building, autism and learning disabilities.
Dr Rachel Forrester-Jones: Senior Lecturer in Community Care
Community care outcomes (mental health, learning disabilities); social networks and social support relating to all client groups including university students; social inclusion; social environments; supported employment; death and bereavement and spirituality.
Dr Nick Gore: Lecturer in Learning Disability
Relational Frame Theory; acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT); challenging behaviour; supported employment.
Dr Michelle McCarthy: Senior Lecturer in Learning Disability
The sexuality of people with learning disabilities, in particular women with learning disabilities, and sexual abuse; sexual and reproductive health; the menopause for women with learning disabilities.
Peter McGill: Co-Director; Reader in Clinical Psychology of Learning Disability
Applied behaviour analysis, particularly with respect to its implications for the design and delivery of services to people with severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviour.
Professor Glynis Murphy: Co-Director; Professor of Clinical Psychology of Learning Disability
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioural treatment for men at risk of sexual offending; effectiveness of treatment for people with untreated phenylketonuria (PKU); symptoms of abuse for people with severe learning disabilities; capacity to consent to sexual relationships; early development of self-injurious behaviour; effectiveness of early intervention in autism.
Tony Osgood: Lecturer in Learning Disability
Behaviour analysis; person-centred planning; positive behaviour support; autism and organisational influence on human service outcomes.
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Contact details
Admissions enquiriesT: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Recruitment and Admissions Office, The Registry, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ
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