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Archives and Records Management
This Archives and Records Management programme is offered at the University of Dundee. The Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS) provides opportunities for doctoral research (including part time by Distance) in archives, records management, memory & identity, family & local history and related subjects.

Social Work
This Social Work programme from University of Bristol equips students with the skills and experience to apply social research methods and tools to critically examine some of the most pressing contemporary issues in social work practice, policy and education.

Anatomy and Human Identification
This Anatomy and Human Identification programme is offered at the University of Dundee. CAHID is an award winning teaching and research centre whose staff are both REF returned and responsible for REF impact case studies.

Social Work and Social Care
The Social Work and Social Care degree at the University of Birmingham considers topics, organisations or concepts relating to social work and social care services.

Social Work
The Social Work from University of East Anglia provides students with advanced training and research skills which will equip them for the next steps in their career.

Applied Social Science
The Applied Social Science course from Lancaster University has an active research community within the fields of child protection, theories of welfare, gender and sexuality, family support and family justice, law and social work, community care, and health and social care.

Doctor of Philosophy - Social Work and Social Policy
As a doctoral research degree in Doctor of Philosophy - Social Work and Social Policy candidate at Curtin University, you will uncover new knowledge either by the discovery of new facts, the formulation of theories or the innovative reinterpretation of known data and established ideas.

Social Work
Social Work programme offered at Brunel University of London is aligned with grand challenges for social work research including focus on individual and family well-being, creating a stronger social fabric, and developing a just society.

Health and Social Care Practice
This Health and Social Care Practice course from University of Derby aims to prepare health professionals, in practice or in academia, and leaders in the health and social care professions with research and research project management skills to take a leading role with the development of practice or the development of services within defined professional areas.

Consumer Behaviour and Food Marketing
At the University of Reading, we offer several routes to a doctoral qualification, including this PhD in Consumer Behaviour and Food Marketing.

Food and Nutritional Sciences
Our Food and Nutritional Sciences programme from University of Reading spans all aspects of food and nutrition, from farm to fork and beyond.

Social Work
The professional doctorate in Social Work programme delivered by Cardiff University, is aimed at managers and a wide range of practitioners who are experienced and who are working at senior and middle levels of their professions and organisations.

Disaster Risk and Resilience
The United Nations defines a disaster as a disruption of social and community function, involving so many losses and destructive impacts that affected communities and regions are unable to cope using their own resources. The Cultural Studies course is offered at University of Canterbury.

Food Sciences
Our scientists in the School of Applied Sciences work in multidisciplinary teams to target major societal challenges in the areas of human health, well-being, performance and behaviour. WJoin the Food Sciences degree at London South Bank University.

Social Science
The Social Science programme from University College Cork was established in 2005 and is a four-year advanced programme which provides the opportunity for experienced professionals based in public sector agencies, voluntary/community organisations, educational institutions and international non-governmental organisations.

Food and Human Nutrition
This Food and Human Nutrition PhD programme from Newcastle University seek to understand how food affects human health and wellbeing.

Food Business and Nutrition Science
This Food Business and Nutrition Science course from the University of West London will enable you to become an expert in your chosen area of food science.

Food Science and Technology and Nutrition
The Food Science and Technology and Nutrition degree of Universidade de Aveiro aims to produce a new generation of highly qualified professionals well prepared to intervene in industrial, academic, regulatory and other relevant roles.

Marketing and Strategy
Marketing and Strategy from Cardiff University is a research area within which you can focus your studies as part of our Business Studies PhD programme.

Social Work
This Social Work programme from University of Birmingham is designed for social workers and for those wanting to undertake a professional doctorate in the field of Social Work and Social Care.