by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: As we move through what some refer to as ‘fourth wave feminism’ with its focus on online activism, there is growing recognition that a potential route to addressing gender inequalities lies in small, everyday ‘microfeminist’ actions enacted in...
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: Community organising is an approach to collective action that focuses on building grassroots power through using listening to identify local issues, constructing relationships of solidarity between community members, developing the leadership...
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: Why is this PhD important?Police officers and staff work around the clock to keep our communities safe, but this often means working irregular hours including nights and weekends, known as shift work. While we know shift work can affect physical...
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common long-term health conditions in the UK and a leading cause of pain, disability, and work loss. Around ten million people are affected nationally, with NHS costs estimated at over £10 billion each year...
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: Social work in Jordan, evolving over a century, faces challenges intensified by regional crises, economic fragility and diverse community needs, raising concerns over whether social work practitioners are well equipped enough to respond to the...
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: Air pollution and lack of physical activity are two of the biggest health risks facing children in London today. To help make neighbourhoods safer and healthier, local councils have introduced Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). These are areas...
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
Applications are invited for a fully-funded interdisciplinary 3.5-year PhD project within the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London (KCL) in collaboration with the Department of Geography (KCL) and Forest Research. PhD project summary:This research...
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: Social assistance programmes are used by governments globally to support livelihoods of their most vulnerable populations. They provide critical support to low-income households in different ways, including through cash or in-kind transfers or...
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: This project examines how food insecurity – the lack of regular access to enough safe and nutritious food – influences children’s development, affecting their chances of doing well at school and reducing opportunities later in life....
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: Domestic abuse is a broad concept including physical or sexual abuse, violent or threatening behaviour, controlling or coercive behaviour, economic abuse and psychological or emotional abuse against a current or ex-partner or a relative. It is...
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: City and Hackney, though geographically closeboroughs, are home to communities with very different health experiences. Hackney is a lively, young, and diverse area, but many residents face poverty, housing problems, and other social disadvantages....
by Katherine Hale | 11th December 2025
PhD project summary: An estimated 16 million people in the UK live with a disability (DWP statistics 2023), of which 48% have mobility impairments and 25% have impaired dexterity. Traditional musical performance opportunities are severely restricted for this...
