Overview
You will come from any field within social work, be it supporting children or adults. You should have several years of professional experience, perhaps at a senior level. You should desire to pursue an area of research related to, and drawing on, your professional work.
Your Social Work research at Liverpool Hope University will create new evidence-based knowledge, practice and understanding that will bring benefits both to you and your wider professional community.
Features
There is a strong emphasis on individualised learning and critical reflection. You will engage at an advanced level with varied academic and professional issues relevant to your own practice. You will develop the three key skills of independent learning, independent research, and sustained critical and self-reflexive analysis.
Programme Structure
Curriculum:
- Engaging with Research - Knowledge, Truth and Values in Research
- Yourself as Researcher - Professional Identity and Values
- Research Skills and Methods
- Research Proposal
- Engaging with Research - Research, Policy and Practice
- Yourself as Researcher - Practitioner Research in Context
- Dissertation
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 60 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Social Work View 67 other PhDs in Social Work in United KingdomAcademic requirements
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Student insurance
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- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- A minimum of a Second-Class Honours degree in Social Work OR an associate discipline (e.g. psychology, sociology, social policy, etc.) awarded by a UK university, or an equivalent higher education qualification.
- At least 3 years’ experience in professional social work or social care (including voluntary or independent sector and/or informal care).
- A Post Graduate or Masters degree in Social Work is also acceptable. An additional Masters degree is desirable.
Tuition Fee
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International
5440 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 5440 GBP per year during 60 months. -
National
2160 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2160 GBP per year during 60 months.
Living costs for Liverpool
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