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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.

You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.

International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements

IASR Staff

Individual staff profiles can be found in the Department of Applied Social Studies
  • Director: Prof Jenny Pearce
  • Administrator: Cara Senouni

The Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care Research

  • Director:  Prof Donald Forrester
  • Deputy Director: Prof Michael Preston-Shoot
  • Assistant Director: Dr Sarah Galvani
  • Assistant Director: Dr Cherilyn Dance
  • Researcher: Georgia Glynn
  • Prof Andy Guppy
  • Centre Administrator: Kerry Lapworth
  • Part Time Researcher: Michelle McCann
  • Researcher: Guy Shefer
  • Researcher: Dr Angela Thurman
  • Researcher: Dr Sarah Wadd
  • Researcher: Dr David Westlake

The International Centre for the Study of Sexually Exploited and Trafficked Young People

  • Prof Jenny Pearce
  • Dr Lorena Arocha
  • Prof David Barrett
  • Dr Helen Beckett
  • Dr Isabelle Brodie
  • Ms Fiona Factor
  • Dr Patricia Hynes
  • Prof Margaret Melrose
  • Dr Lucie Shuker
  • Ms Camille Warrington

The Social Work, Professional Practice and Law Research Centre

  • Prof Michael Preston-Shoot
  • Mr Patrick Ayre
  • Ms Kathryn Ellis
  • Ms Amanda Thorpe

The Vauxhall Centre for the Study of Crime

  • Prof John Pitts
  • Prof Jon Silverman
  • Dr Ian Bridgeman
  • Mr Tim Bateman
  • Prof Alan Marlow
  • Ms Suzella Palmer
  • Ms Marilyn Wolfson

The Centre for Young People, Poverty and Social Disadvantage

  • Director: Prof Margaret Melrose
  • Patrick Ayre
  • Prof David Barrett
  • Dr Isabelle Brodie
  • Prof Tony Cline
  • Dr Helen Connolly
  • Dr Cherilyn Dance
  • Prof Ravi Kohli

Making Research Count

  • Director: Prof Donald Forrester
  • Coordinator: Jo Neale
  • Events Manager: Cara Senouni

Visiting Professors

  • Prof Uttom Chowdhury, Clinical Director for CAMHS services in Bedfordshire
  • Prof John Coleman, Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
  • Prof Tony Jeffs, Joint Editor: Youth and Policy Work
  • Prof Toyin Okitikpi, Member of Aventure (social welfare consultancy group) and a lay member on a number of tribunals including: the General Medical Council's Fitness to Practice Panel; the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal; Nursing and Midwifery Council and the Mental Health Review Tribunal.
  • Prof Jo Phoenix, University of Durham

Visiting Research Fellows

  • Dr Roger Green, Visiting Senior Research Fellow
  • Prof John Hagedorn, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Prof Marti Gonfors, Professor of Criminology, University of Kupio, Finland

Individual staff profiles can be found in the Department of Applied Social Studies

Bedfordshire University

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