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PhD Childhood Studies

University of Essex

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Course options

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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    Colchester Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    APR

  • Duration

    4 years

Course summary

We offer research supervision in the following:

  • Children, psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic theory
  • Psychosocial Studies of children and childhood
  • Sociologies of childhood
  • Histories of children and childhood
  • Children, parenting, and families
  • Childhood, politics, and ideology
  • Ethical research with children
  • Childhood and identity
  • Children鈥檚 friendships and peers
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Geographies of childhood and youth
  • Children, media, and popular culture
  • Children with disabilities and critical disability studies
  • Children in/and refugee studies
  • Comparative childhoods
  • Childhood innocence
  • Child development
  • Trauma
  • Looked after children
  • Therapeutic communities

Our graduates in PPS go on to several different destinations, including further study and training. Many of our students are already professionals so return to their existing fields with deeper understanding of their work, using this for their personal development and for increasing their potential for promotion and leadership in their existing or new roles.

Your future

Our graduates go on to several different destinations, including further study and training.

Many of our students are already professionals, clinical and non-clinical, so return to their existing fields, either in jobs or further training, and use study with us to deepen their understanding of their work.

Tuition fees

Students living in Hong Kong
(International fees)

拢 18,750per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

University of Essex

University of Essex

  • University League Table

    30th

  • Campus address

    University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Psychology

    50th out of 118

    42nd out of 73 1

    37th out of 42 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 213
    122 57%

    74th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    63.0 63%

    55th

    12

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.07 77%

    53rd

    10

  • Entry standards

    / Max 180
    115 64%

    61st

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    96.0 96%

    11th

    5

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.19 80%

    25th

    33

  • Entry standards

    / Max 157
    125 79%

    18th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    n/a

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.03 76%

    38th

    3

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