Department of Social & Policy Sciences

Postgraduate seminar series

Our research postgraduate students are part of an active and supportive community, with frequent opportunities to peer-review their work, share resources and ideas.

For further information please contact Luke Martinelli email: l.a.martinelli@bath.ac.uk

Previous presentations

2011-12

Title Research student
Contested Resource Rights: Militancy in the Oil Region of Nigeria (A Social Movement Perspective) Ben Tantua
Policy space under the WTO: issues in quantitative analysis Luke Martinelli
The Outcome of Neoliberal Social Policy Reforms in a Familistic Welfare Regime: The Case of Mexico from 1996 to 2012 Ricardo Velazquez Leyer
Schooling as a skill? The Politics of Children's Education and Development in Rwanda Tim Williams
Analysing how welfare states treat the needs of informal care givers Fiona Morgan
Observing Justice: An Exploration into Court Responses to Sexual Violence Olivia Smith
Living with landmines: mine action, development and wellbeing in post-conflict Khmer society Gabby Davies
Marriage and Kinship in Sri Lanka. The changing structure of gender and inter-generational relations Asha Abeyasekera-Van Dort
Academic networking using 'academic-edu' - discussion about academic networking software Tim Williams and Justin Rogers
Changing attitudes to work in the Czech Republic - the role of work Lenka Banovcova
Staying well in the township: results from a study of wellbeing, chronic disease and physical activity in Cape Town Emer Brangan
Matching competencies and projected employment requirements in public and private sectors: A critical review of policies and policy instruments Anne Marie Thake
Expansion of childcare policy and mother's employment in Korea Huijong Chong
Participation of Stakeholders in the Governance of Further Education: Vet systems in England Hannah Durrant
The Politics of Governance: Reconstituting the state-voluntary sector relationship in public service delivery in the UK Jenny Harlock
Understanding border configurations in labour migration management: a comparative analysis in the EU Regine Paul
Social development in Ethiopia: The political economy of social policy and agrarian change Tom Lavers
Football, boyhood and the development of masculinities Adi Adams
Going to a funeral: a sociological study of mourners' experiences in contemporary Britain Tara Bailey
Exploring the embodied experience and associated narratives of disability within the context of the Christian Church Sarah Long
Envisioning a future: hopes and aspirations of undocumented migrant children in the United States Cynthia Cueva-Luna
Competing modernities in development discourse: authenticity and identity in South American indigenous movements Daniela Bressa Florentin
Corporate Codes of Conduct in Global Supply Chain and impacts on migrant workers in Vietnam Dong Hoang
Lone parents: networks of support James Canton
The role of migration governance in the changing political economy of the Gulf States Sophie Olver
Academic inequality under the threat of low fertility: marketisation of education and its effect on family in Japan Mizuho Ozaki
The effects of means testing in the UK tax and benefit system on family structure and female employment participation Rita Griffiths
Well-being, income and self-determination Oscar Garza Vasquez
Multidimensional conception of well-being for children in Mexico Viviana Ramirez Ramirez

2010-11

Title Research student
Livelihood Strategies of Young Women in the Context of De-agrarianization: A Rural Ethiopian Study - the Examination of Methodology Yuka Kodama
The Future of the Game: Football, Boyhood, and the Development of Masculinities Adi Adams
Implementing Corporate Codes of Conduct in Global Supply Chains: Experience from Vietnam Dong Hoang
The 'democratic scandal': social movement organisations and the state in South America Juan Pablo Ferrero
Shades of humanity: exploring concepts of disability and impairment as expressed within the Christian Church Sarah Long
Migrant workers' pension portability: social security agreements among the UK, Korea, Japan and Germany Hyeonseok Jang
The Dynamics of Skills: Governing Work and Workers Hannah Durrant
Which varieties of borders in the capitalist migration state? The intersection of capitalisms, labour markets, and nations in British, French and German labour migration management Regine Paul
Resilience of Left-behind Children in Rural China  Lina Xiao
Afro-Caribbean ways of death, dying and bereavement in Britain, and the legacy of slavery  Aliki Karapliagou
Using mass observation as a research method Tara Bailey
Participation in public services: understanding staff and service user collaboration Michelle Farr
Ideas, Strategies and Practices of a Revolution; Venezuela's catastrophic equilibrium Dimitris Pantoulas
Why Ethiopian children are not in school? : An ethnographic study of primary schooling in rural Ethiopia Tigist Grieve
Mothering and sustained part-time working: impacts on identity and well-being Fiona Macgill
Statelessness in the Middle East: the current and future role of Global Citizenship Jason Tucker
Exploring young people's experiences of foster care using a social capital approach Justin Rogers
The impact of gender politics on social care services in South Korea Sung Hee Lee
Comparing income security for female headed households between the UK and Japan Yuko Tamiya
The impact of regional economic intergration on international relations: a comparative study of ASEAN and the EU Mo Rattanasevee

 

 
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