The School of Human and Health Sciences is pleased to invite applications for fee waiver PhD scholarships in the following social science topics:

• A Comparative Analysis of Crime and Security in Small Island Nation States. This research could examine the context, culture, land use and accessibility factors that distinguish small islands from other nation states and the implications of these differences for offending, crime detection and prevention.

• Exploring collaborative working in differing organisational settings (i.e. between different professional/ occupational groups and service users/customers). A strong emphasis would be on taking forward qualitative methods developed at Huddersfield, such as the Pictor technique.

• The politics of parenting. This could encompass areas such as the social constructions of parenting; the changing role of fatherhood; politics of infant feeding (breastfeeding). It would utilise qualitative or mixed methods.

• Real-world reasoning, problem solving and decision making, in education or the work place - from a cognitive science perspective. For example, a project could examine how medical students and/or practitioners use and interpret information devices.

• Exploring how identities are construed though consumer products - for instance, how women and/or men understand their own and others' identities through choices of footwear. This would use methods based in Personal Construct Psychology and constructivism.

• The restorative activities used in the relief of fatigue in long-term illness e.g. cancer, chronic heart disease, respiratory illnesses.

• Treatment modalities in the management of pre-tibial lacerations; this study will investigate and evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of treatments for pre-tibial lacerations, presenting in A/E departments and followed up in the community.

• Areas around governance and citizenship, identity, ageing, health and wellbeing, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, disability, Britishness, social and political conflict and conflict transformation.

For further information about all of the School's research activities please refer to the School web pages, which can be found at http://www2.hud.ac.uk/hhs/research/index.php.

Criteria:
1. You must be a UK citizen.
2. You should:
• have a degree (2:1 or above) or,
• be in your final year and on schedule to achieve a 2:1 or,
• have a relevant Masters degree (subject to the requirement above) or,
• be on target to successfully complete your masters degree in this academic year

It is anticipated that study will commence in October 2010.
The successful candidates will be expected to undertake up to a maximum of 6 hours teaching/ other duties per week as appropriate to their experience, disciplinary background and allocated research centre.

If you wish to apply for these scholarships, the standard University of Huddersfield postgraduate study application form should be completed and submitted. This can be located via the following link, and section 4 should state ‘Human and Health Sciences Studentship'. http://www2.hud.ac.uk/research/gradcentre/applications/index.php

Completed applications should be returned to:
The Research Office, Level 10, Central Services Building, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, United Kingdom.

Tel: +44 (0) 1484 472356, Fax: +44 (0) 1484 472146 Email: research-office@hud.ac.uk

The closing date for applications is Monday 14th June and it is anticipated that interviews will be held as soon as possible thereafter.