Linked Undergraduate / Postgraduate Training
Teaching and Research Environment
Our teaching and research interests are very much interlinked. We provide a stimulating and supportive teaching and research environment for our international community of undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students. Close interaction with funded projects, monthly Seminars plus regular Workshops, Visiting Fellows and an Annual Conference all imbue our teaching and research with an ethos of excellence. We work with students on an individual and group basis, offering rigorous peer review of their presentations, papers and research proposals.
We have revised our successful MSc Medicine, Bioscience & Society, and have developed two new and innovative Programmes in MSc Science, Technology & Contemporary Society; and MSc Sociology of Health & Illness. We have also developed new undergraduate modules in, for example, Sociology of Health & Illness.
Sociology & Communications Undergraduate Programmes
Postgraduate Programmes and Research Degrees
PhD Students
Students with an interest in ‘CBAS research themes’ in the Department of Sociology & Communications include:
Kevin Cordingley (Prainsack)
The knowledge base of occupational therapists in forensic mental health practice
John Gardner (Williams & Wainwright)
Experimental neuroscience: use of Deep Brain Stimulation to treat children with dystonias.
Alexandra Jugureanu (Hughes & Wainwright)
Greater happiness for a greater number: a debate in terms of ethics and controversy with implications in public policy.
Governmentality and habitus in the field of higher education: a conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between governance and academic practice in England.
Regina Nazareno (Prainsack)
Decentralisation of pharmaceutical care policy in Brazil: the impact on access to medicines.
Amanda Rohloff (Hughes & Rojek)
Climate change, moral panic and civilization: on the development of global warming as a perceived social problem.
Dr Gabrielle Samuel (Wainwright & Henderson)
Media reporting of experimental neuroscience
Rev John Watts (Wainwright & Prainsack)
Narratives of spirituality: biographical disruption in renal dialysis patients
Emeka Dumbili (Henderson & Williams)
Young People, Media & Alcohol Consumption in Nigeria
Recent CBAS PhD Projects include:
Being disabled: encounters between Heideggerian thought and disabilty studies.
Drug trials in developing countries.
Effects of nurse prescribing upon the professional relationships of District Nurses and their colleagues.
Ethics committees in Saudi Arabia and the UK: a comparative study.
Ethics, policy and regulation of human embryonic stem cell research in Iran.
Genetic databases, genetic information and constructing meanings.
Genetic risk after the Human Genome Project: 'carrierness', personal identity, and public health.
Making hard moral choices: How do UK general practitioners identify and reconcile ethical conflict?
The nanophysics of power: between biopolitics and globalization.
Towards telemedicine-specific skills: analysis of interaction in face-to-face and telemedicine consultations.
