South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC)

Andy is interested to work with applicants seeking to conduct research relating to the professional learning, development and/or well-being of teachers, leaders and other professionals. Specific foci may include but are not restricted to studies of:

• Mentoring and/or coaching for early career teachers / professionals
• Mentoring and/or coaching across professions
• Judgementoring
• ONSIDE Mentoring
• Co-mentoring (collaborative, compassionate mentoring and coaching)

My supervisory interests include a wide variety of topics in higher education pedagogies. My main interests are in doctoral learning and teaching, postgraduate and undergraduate student journeys and transitions, and interactions of life and learning in student journeys and experiences. My interests also include research into lecturers' experiences of professional development, and changing higher education contexts. I am interested in supervising research that adopts qualitative  methodologies.

I am not in a position to take on any new doctoral students at the moment.  I currently supervise in areas including the following:

• Addressing disadvantage in education
• (Post)digital technologies & education.
• Vulnerability and wellbeing
• Leadership and school improvement
• Learner voice and dialogic learning
• Challenging school readiness.

One of my key passions is working with PhD students on creative practice, autoethnography and creative writing pedagogy. I have supported doctoral students working on transdisciplinary projects and work that seeks to challenge conventional academic discourse. At the moment, I am honoured to be working with students who are looking at queering the colonial, creativity (image and text), evolving archives with found poetry, Santiago de Cuba as a moving archive, feminist romance, autoethnographic arts-based work, stories from care, autoethnographic work seeking social change, identity and hybridity in fiction, and queer bodies in performance.

Matthew supervises PhD students addressing a range of topics including human-animal relations, more-than-human and multispecies methods, Anthropocene studies, the posthumanities, psychology and the climate crisis, climate activism, mental health and distress, social and cultural identity. He is especially interested in supervising students adopting qualitative and creative methods. Interdisciplinary projects are especially welcome. 

I am interested in supervising students in any area of Middle Eastern politics or international relations, especially projects related to Palestinian and Israeli politics, social movements, student activism and the role of higher education in politics, citizenship, nationalism, mobilisation and resistance.

I would be very interested in supervising postgraduate students conducting projects on:

• Vulnerability and forensic investigative interviewing;
• Evidence-based child forensic interviewing techniques;
• Working with police (nationally and internationally) to overcome barriers to prosecuting cases involving children and adolescents;
• Understanding factors that promote decisions to disclose and designing strategies to promote honesty.

I am interested in supervising people with an interest in social psychology, crowd behaviour, or collective action. For example I am currently researching the protests calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East conflict & would welcome PG research projects into these and other topical collective action protests. I am also interested in public intervention in emergencies/mass casualty incidents (a concept known as 'zero-responders') and public behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its implications for emergency planning and response. Therefore, I would be especially interested in supervising emergency responders and other public health professionals who wish to do PG research. 

I am also interested in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and the broader area of collective resilience in response to general adversity. I would be keen to work with health professionals interested in postgraduate research in any of these areas.  

Deanna has supervised PhD, MA and Bachelor students on topics related to border violence, urban resistance and housing struggles.

She is available for supervision on PhD projects related to the criminalisation of resistance and mutual aid, on border violence and urban spaces. She also welcomes proposals informed by feminist and decolonial methodologies. 

I have supervisory interests in digital health, coproduction of health and social care services, community and social innovation, complex multi-method evaluation, energy justice and transport de-carbonisation.

I am interested in supervising projects within mental health, and I have a particular interest in supporting research projects in the area of anxiety and mood disorders. My specialisms involve understanding these disorders within childhood, including the cognitive, behavioural and physiological expression of children's anxiety and mood symptoms, and the impact of external factors, such as sleep, on these. Please get in touch for an informal discussion if you have a project in mind.

I am interested in supervising project that concern the effectiveness of heath communications and theory-based interventions to promote health-enhancing behaviour and well-being. For example, those that focus on using exploring whether psychological interventions, such as self-affirmation, can be used to encourage people to engage in behaviours which benefit their health, different ways of presenting health information, processing of health information, and message framing. Second, I am interested in supervising projects on how we can use psychological interventions to reduce inequalities in educational settings. I am also interested in supervising projects that are exploring the application of psychological theory to how we feel about our homes and residential spaces.

I'm happy to supervise PhD students on a range of topics broadly relating to Forensic Psychology and Cyberpsychology. I am especially interested in supervising students adopting an Eye Tracking methodology.

I am interested in supervising projects broadly related to digital wellbeing and the use of technology in the arenas of mental health and counselling/therapy. Specifically, I would like to supervise projects exploring social media users’ experiences of consuming therapy content and following therapists on social media. I would also be interested in supervising projects investigating the benefits of therapeutic companion robots for improving wellbeing and an exploration of therapeutic human-robot interactions. Finally, I would like to continue overseeing research investigating digital mental health interventions (Artifical Intelligence, apps, online therapies, VR or standalone internet interventions for mental health. 

• Cyberpsychology – the impact of digital technology on everyday life
• Older people and digital technology
• Intergenerational contact in the digital age
• Digital wellbeing
• Mindfulness in relation to the digital world

Helen supervises PhD and MD students with an interest in arts-based interventions in healthcare, education and wellbeing, and/or the use of creative, arts-based research methods.  She is interested in talking to doctoral applicants who are interested in researching creativity and the arts, with foci including: art therapy; arts interventions for health and wellbeing, including invisible chronic and contested conditions; social prescribing; creativity and the lived experience of dementia; arts education; spoken word and poetry slam; art worlds/communities; arts inclusivity; everyday creativity; and the artistic process.   She is also interested in supervising students who wish to work with creative, arts-based and/or participatory methods, including: poetic inquiry; autoethnography; photo voice; photo elicitation; collaborative poetics; and participatory action research.  Helen currently supervises four doctoral candidates, who are researching: the lived experiences of women with borderline personality disorder (including creative coping strategies); neurologic music therapy with young people with juvenile dementia; black people's experiences of intimacy and psychosis; and decolonial praxis in museum learning.  She has previously supervised and examined work covering topics that include: perceptions of frailty in the undergraduate medical curriculum; the impact of austerity policies on homeless people; spoken word with young offenders in a Macedonian prison; the performance and perception of authenticity in contemporary UK spoken word poetry; and NHS staff experiences of work. 

I would be interested in supervising doctoral students in areas of Positive psychology, specifically how people think about life satisfaction; the cognitive processes underpinning life satisfaction and happiness; the importance of money to life satisfaction; improvisation and how it relates to wellbeing. More broadly, this encompasses: well being; life satisfaction; happiness; hedonic wellbeing; eudaimonic well being; flow. I would also consider some aspects of Social psychology, specifically the relationship between friendship and coping behaviours.

I am interested in supervising doctoral students in classed inequalities, urban sociology, social housing and ethnographic methodologies.

I am currently supervising the following projects:

Social and cultural exclusion through seaside gentrification on the south coast Bethan Prosser

Precarious practices and policies in the divided ‘smart city’ Matthew Smith

I am interested in supervising doctoral students on a range of topics including transport and mobilities, urban sociology, visual sociology, gender, generation, gender violence, children and young people and spatial justice. In addition, I welcome proposals from students seeking to adopt creative and inventive methodologies and methods. I am currently supervising projects on: sequential art in architectural practice; domestic abuse and visual impairment; visual exploration of young people and class; and methods of radical intersectional equity.

I am interested in supervising doctoral research in the areas of outer space studies, environmental sociology, human-animal studies, and social movement studies, as well as work more broadly situated within psychosocial studies.

Raphael is interested in receiving proposals for doctoral studies across politics, sociology and criminology. His areas of expertise include critical approaches to protest and social movements; criminal justice and social policy; migration and citizenship; policing and security; nationalism and the far right; critical and democratic theory; and public inquiries.

For current funding opportunities see: http://www.southcoastdtp.ac.uk/apply/

I am interested in supervising PhD candidates in a number of public health and health promotion areas. My current research (see profile) includes a global project on health services during CV-19, European research on syphilis, substance (mis)use, and LGBTI inequalities taking an international perspective. PhD candidates are welcome to contact me to develop PhD projects around these areas, but also any of the below:

• Sexual health (including HIV and other STIs) and sexual orientation
• Access to health and social care services for ‘vulnerable’ populations
• Healthy public policy and health inequalities
• Mental health
• Parenthood (including fathers supporting breastfeeding)
• Young people
• LGBT lives
• Tackling stigma and discrimination
• Gender identities (masculinities and femininities)
• Peer group cultures
• Sexual assault/gender based violence/intimate partner violence

I also supervise candidates for PhD by publication and welcome applications/enquiries

I have experience of supervising undergraduate, masters and PhD students. The projects these students have undertaken have been very varied, and have included topics such as: the importance of good food and nutrition to people in prison; parental strategies to reduce the risk of online bullying; narrative construction of political speeches about gun crime in America; reasons for abolition of the death penalty in specific US states; the Scandinavian prison system; the experience of offenders families and the Old Police Cells Museum in Brighton. The majority of my students have used qualitative methods which have included focus groups, interviews (both in-person and online) and ethnographic observation. In addition, many of my students have undertaken analyses of cultural products such as films, documentaries, news reports and exhibitions.

With regards to future projects, I would be happy to consider any application or idea although my own research interests include punishment and prison; narrative; the death penalty; museums and exhibitions; cultural memories and cultural forgetting and cultural comparisons.  

I supervise PhD students on a variety of topics that focus on the psychological side of migration. I welcome proposals from students who want to investigate well-being or mental health of migrants, refugees, or international students. Within that topic, I am particularly interested in the role of social relationships and/or the role of digital technology in wellbeing and mental health. I also accept projects looking into British people's attitudes towards migration: i.e., what are predictors of negative and positive attitudes and behaviours towards migration, and what can we do to improve these attitudes and/or support for migrants?

Examples of PhD projects under my supervision:

• Investigating resilience of international students from a social policy perspective (Isaac Thornton).
• Exploring the role of digital and print resources in English language and literacy acquisition in relation to wellbeing of refugee children (Liliane Broschart).
• Exploring engagement with green and blue spaces among minority ethnic communities in rural Ireland (Órla Bredin).
• Investigating the construction of healing interactive art from the perspective of embodied cognition (Qinyu Duan).
• The impact of digitalisation on public and third sector services supporting people for whom English is an additional language (Sidney Lupupa Mushinge).

I am interested in supervising a number of topics rooted in the disciplines of Critical Social Psychology, Critical Community Psychology, and Discursive Psychology, with a transdisciplinary ethos. Broad areas are: non-normative sexualities, religious and ideological discourses, nature and sustainability. For example:

- Non-normative sexualities, LGBTI+ issues

- Sex work, sex workers, and intersectionalities

- Religious and ideological discourses on sexuality

- Transdisciplinary approaches to sexuality and gender

- Permaculture, Transition Towns, group dynamics, grass-root social movements

- Transdisciplinary approaches to environmental crisis, peak oil, and climate change

- Non-clinical approaches to mental health

- Values of space in shaping people’s social identities

- Critical Community Psychology

- Critical Social Psychology, and Discursive Psychology

I am interested in supervising doctoral students in all areas related to my research interests in sociological, cultural and geographical analyses of race, ethnicity and popular culture.

PhD students currently working with me are undertaking research on: conflict, protest and resistance around the Hamburg Olympic Games referendum; identities and experiences of mixed-race university students; tourism in post-Communist Romania; Black British contemporary intellectual thought; and women’s cricket and sport policy in India.

I am able to supervise doctoral research across the fields of sociology, cultural studies, and politics as they pertain to sport, physical education, fitness, and related fields. However, I am particularly interested in sociological studies of the following specialist topics:

• Martial arts and combat sports
• Sport-related violence
• Risk, injury and medical care in sport
• Consent in sport

I have supervised five PhD students to completion, and I am currently supervising another five PhD students. I have also been looking after the wider community of PhD students for four years (2017-21) when I was the ‘Postgraduate Research Coordinator’ for my school. I therefore understand very well PhD processes, the main milestones of a PhD journey, and the specific professional and personal development needs PhD students have. I offer strong support to my students and love working with them. Students joining the Fatigue and Exercise research lab benefit from peer support with regular meetings to discuss science, bespoke research projects, or recent publications in our field, in addition to the entitled PhD supervision support.

If you are interested in the following areas, do not hesitate to contact me:

• Exercise intensity domains, anaerobic capacity, and neuromuscular fatigue
• Perceptions (particularly fatigue and effort) and exercise tolerance / behaviour
• The interaction between physical training and both perceptual and neuromuscular fatigue
• Multiple sclerosis, long-covid, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)

I would be interested in supervising postgraduate students in the following areas:

- Geographies of sport and leisure- Playful cities and urban everyday life- Community-supported agriculture / community gardening

I also welcome discussions on other potential topics.

• Sustainablity in Hospitality, Tourism and Events
• Marketing Hospitality, Tourism and Events
• Service quality and development in Hospitality, Tourism and Events

I am interested in supervising PhD students interested in sustainability related to tourism, marketing, and corporate social responsibility. I am also interested in those wanting to research behaviour change, especially related to the environmental crisis. Recently completed research and publications include those concerning behaviour change and travel demand management, destination planning and management and information overload on the internet. I specifically welcome projects that adopt innovative qualitative methodological approaches to creating new knowledge.

I am supervising students researching tourism and the circular economy, monitoring and evaluation of tourism development, art and the tourism economy and behaviour change as a result of environmental exposure 

My research and supervisory interests cover Sport and Exercise Psychology, with particular focus on cultural sport psychology (immigrated athletes and coaches, culturally diverse sport teams, acculturation and adaptation in a new environment), as well as athletes' well-being (safeguarding, coach-athlete relationship). I currently lead an international research project on behalf of FEPSAC, which investigates career trajectories of sport psychology graduates in Europe.

I welcome students' research projects in the following areas: Consumer psychology and behaviour; Customer relationship marketing; Marketing for families; Gender and sexuality in marketing

Dr Neil Maxwell has a strong history of supporting PhD students aligned to the Environmental Extremes Lab (EEL), having supervised over twenty research students to completion and he sees them as integral to EEL’s vision and success moving forward. His priority is for new PhD students to align to EEL’s direction and existing research themes of 1) Screening for susceptibility, 2) Cross-population exercise-stressor reactions and 3) Illness mitigation and therapeutic strategies. However, he is interested in all things environmental physiology, and so good research ideas are welcome. Specific areas of research interest include:

• Screening methods for heat and hypoxic tolerance
• Heat reactions amongst vulnerable populations
• Effectiveness of acute and chronic heat mitigation strategies
• Cross tolerance/adaptation responses and the physiological effect of combined environmental stressors
• Sleep hygiene and its interaction with environmental stressors

Simon is interested in postgraduate supervision in journalism and media studies. He is particularly keen on projects that explore professional and citizen journalism, digital and social media practice, blogging and influencer cuture, media analysis, sports journalism, sports communication and sports media. 

At present i am currently looking to help supervise students interested in the following projects:

• Remote monitoring of recovery from critical illness rehabilitation.
• Exercise and physical activity for prehabilitation
• Real time health and performance evaluation of athletes during mass participation endurance activities. 
• Evaluating the consequence of exposure loads for occupational and health based applications.

Nick supervises PhD students in the area of motor control, experimental psychology and cognitive and motor neuroscience. He is happy to be contacted to discuss potential projects on clinical exercise science, rehabilitation and sports and expert performance. There would be particular benefit to potential PhD students if their proposed programme of research fitted Dr Smeeton’s research interests.

I am currently supervising two doctoral candidates. One project focuses on Soft Power and the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The other examines resistance to the hosting of Mega Events such as the Olympics. I am interested in supervising doctoral students in areas relating to sociological, cultural, and political aspects of international festivals, events, and spectacles. My particular focus is arts and cultural events for example Burning Man, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and global touring productions, such as U2's 360 tour. I am also interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas relating to leisure events:

• fandom and fan communities
• community and cultural identity
• space and place
• production, consumption, and co-creation of leisure spectacles.