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Study for your PhD in healthcare and resilience with the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice

 The Centre of Resilience for Social Justice fosters a rich and rewarding postgraduate research student culture, with membership of the centre and participation in projects and events throughout the programme.

For those joining us as student researchers, ambitious and talented postgraduate research students are at the heart of the research and enterprise activities within the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice.

Our doctoral students past and present work on resilience related to practitioners, schools, work, mental health, parents and disability. Some of them are active practitioners in these fields themselves. They are all active members of the resilience forum and work closely with Boingboing too.

Recent and current PhD students have been successful in obtaining studentships covering both fees and living costs through the University of Brighton’s involvement in the ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Programme. 

See current PhD students and supervisors in our 'Who we are' pages and find out more through the university's programme page for PhD in health and wellbeing | PhD in resilience.

As well as this, our staff members inform the teaching in many areas of the university, bringing resilience to prominence in the thinking of a wide variety of people. We have  training programmes through Boingboing which are accredited through the university's Recognising the Educational Quality (REQ®) scheme, currently awarded to ‘Supporting Academic Resilience Approach (SARA)’ and ‘Facilitating Resilient Therapy (FRT)'.

Contact the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice for more information on studying for your PhD in any aspect of resilience in the disciplinary contexts of healthcare, social science or creative practice.

resilience@brighton.ac.uk 

Become a member or join our work through Boingboing and the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice

The Centre of Resilience for Social Justice is highly co-productive with a strong emphasis on collaboration and outreach.

Our approach focuses on the University of Brighton’s extended networks, both across its own disciplinary boundaries, and with practitioners, community groups and individual partners within the UK and overseas.

We are keen to establish contact with all organisations who might benefit from insight into resilience and to invite anyone interested in resilience to our regular events and activities.

Membership and associate membership

The Centre of Resilience for Social Justice is made up of network of researchers brought together through a shared commitment to research centred on building resilience and tackling disadvantage.  We welcome new members.

Membership of the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice is not limited to staff and students at the University of Brighton; people outside the University of Brighton can be Associate Members of the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice.

This includes academics, professionals, practitioners, young people and parents. The CRSJ draws its members from diverse fields including healthcare, education, social sciences, business, sports sciences, humanities, media studies and arts practices and includes international academics and community partners from many countries including Australia, Canada, Greece, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Turkey, and Wales. 

To find out more about our networks and how we work through the Boingboing community resource, there are regular Boingboing forums in Brighton and Blackpool, which you are welcome to attend. 

For further information about membership, associate membership or joining our work in other ways, contact us by email resilience@brighton.ac.uk

Visit the website of our partnering social network and outreach organisation Boingboing.

Join us as a visiting researcher

The Centre of Resilience for Social Justice is highly co-productive with a strong emphasis on collaboration and outreach.

Our approach focuses on the University of Brighton’s extended networks, both across its own disciplinary boundaries, and with practitioners, community groups and individual partners within the UK and overseas.

We are keen to establish contact with all organisations who might benefit from insight into resilience.

The University of Brighton welcomes visiting academics and supports formal residencies that can vary from a week at a time to a year.

At the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice we work with visitors from all backgrounds who can add to the development of knowledge and understanding of resilience issues.

Our visiting researchers scheme includes three options depending on the duration of your visit: 

• Short visits (up to 4 weeks)

the goal is the visiting researcher and the CRSJ exchanging learning through training and meetings, Forums and other relevant activities.

• Medium-length visits (4 to 12 weeks) 

with the additional goals of the visiting researcher and the CRSJ developing new research ideas, collaborating on a proposal that will be submitted for external funding, and contribution to teaching.

• Long visits (12+ weeks) 

with the additional goal of conducting a research project collaboratively and preparing and submitting at least one output for dissemination.

If you are an academic or an experienced community based researcher and would like to approach the centre for formal application as a visiting researcher please send an email to resilience@brighton.ac.uk to request the visitor pack and form.

Keep in touch with the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice through our newsletter and social media

We hope you will want to keep in regular contact with our research work and the benefits we bring to communities.

Sign up now for the monthly Boingboing and Centre of Resilience for Social Justice newsletter, keeping you informed of our work in developing resilience in diverse national and international communities. 

You might also like to become one of the thousands of people who keep in touch with our research through the Boingboing Twitter presence @bb_resilience. 

Visit us in person

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