Social Policy thesis and dissertation collection
Social Policy has been taught in the University of Edinburgh since 1918. The Subject Group is one of the most respected in the UK and amongst the front rank for the quality of its teaching and research. The Subject Group offers a broad range of courses and postgraduate training, including taught MSc degrees in Childhood Studies,Comparative Public Policy, Policy Studies and Research in Social Policy as well as several undergraduate joint degrees. The Social Policy Group comprises an enthusiastic and experienced teaching team of ten members of staff, three of whom hold Chairs in Family Policies, Socio-Legal Studies and Social and Public Policy, as well as several Honorary Fellows. Research and teaching in the Subject Group brings established expertise in theoretically informed empirical research to the study of social and public policies in the 21st Century.
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Children's understanding of online data privacy: a study on Scottish Primary 6 and Primary 7 pupils
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)There is growing concern over online privacy in today’s digital worlds, in part due to the nature of social media, which encourages the disclosure of personal information. Such concerns have resulted in a significant ... -
“Hidden youth”: a critical study of socially disengaged young people in Hong Kong and Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)There has been growing interest in academic literature about young people who are marginalised and disengaged from society. This thesis focuses on young people in Hong Kong and Scotland who physically shut themselves in ... -
Experience of labour market disadvantage: a comparison of temporary agency workers in Italy and the UK
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)In the past decades, European labour markets have undergone profound changes, witnessing a process of liberalisation and flexibilisation, in part through the spread of various forms of atypical employment. These new forms ... -
Market-based childcare & maternal employment: a comparison of systems in the United States & United Kingdom
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)A vast literature has identified the importance of childcare for understanding cross-national variation in women’s employment, and has particularly emphasised the role of the state in ensuring the delivery of services. ... -
Implementing children's participation at the community level: the practices of non-governmental organisations
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child recognised children’s human right to participate in decisions that affect them. Yet, twenty-five years after ratification, children’s participation remains ... -
Managing or maintaining bias? Examining the conceptualisation of conflicts of interest in medical journal publishing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)BACKGROUND: It has been claimed that the involvement of commercial companies in medical and health research poses risks relating to potential conflicts of interest. In response, many journals have developed conflict ... -
Validity and variation in the parentela policy network: conflict and cooperation between ruling parties and interest groups in Bulgaria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)Policy networks is a body of literature dedicated to modelling state-civil society relationship formats. In this particular relationship, an interest group with privileged (insider) access to the party in power gains ... -
Exploring non-resident fatherhood and child well-being in the early years using the Growing Up in Scotland study
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)Levels of non-resident parenthood in Scotland are substantial. The 2011 Scottish Census indicated 28 per cent of all families with dependent children to be lone parent households. Whilst non-resident parenthood is not ... -
Work-family enrichment experiences among working fathers: evidence from Catalonia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)Although there is still a gender division of labour in post-industrial countries, evidence seems to suggest that there are some fathers more involved than others, and interestingly, a growing number of fathers that want ... -
‘Genderising’ aspects of birth-related leave policies and fertility behaviour in Europe: understanding policy from an individual’s perspective
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)In the context of population ageing and its consequences for future welfare state support, the issue of low fertility in Europe has become very topical over the past two decades. The role of policy and gender equality in ... -
“Our (in)ability to speak”: interpretations and representations of prostitution in an English policy context
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)Over the last ten to fifteen years, prostitution policies in England have grown increasingly welfarist in tone, stressing the relative victimhood and vulnerability of women who sell sex. This thesis explores important facets ... -
Introduction of Health Insurance in the Russian Federation : an analysis of the reforms in St. Petersburg and Volgograd
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Inclusion and the challenge of 'Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties'
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What are the effects of IMF agreements on government health expenditure in low- and middle-income countries? A quantitative cross-country study across income groups and agreement types
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)Introduction The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution that acts as a lender of the last resort for countries experiencing balance of payments problems. Its loans to national authorities ... -
Global HIV/AIDS initiatives, recipient autonomy and country ownership: an analysis of the rise and decline of Global Fund and PEPFAR funding in Namibia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-05)The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB and U.S President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are global health initiatives (GHIs) that were established in the early 2000s with the mandates to increase ... -
Partnership and social progress: multi-stakeholder collaboration in context
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-10)‘Partnership’ has become a buzzword in development circles. The term is used to describe almost any relationship that pools the resources of different actors to address societal challenges and concerns. Because it ... -
Young children’s participation as a living right: an ethnographic study of an early learning and childcare setting
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)My doctoral research has explored how young children’s participation was put into practice—how it was ‘lived’ and negotiated—in the context of one early learning and childcare setting. The concept of children’s participation ... -
Bologna reform in Ukraine: learning Europeanisation in the post-Soviet context
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-11-28)This thesis explores the process of the Bologna reform in the Ukrainian higher education system. Bologna is one of the most well-known and influential European projects for cooperation in the field of higher education. ... -
Involving non-academic users in social science research: collaboration between management academics and practitioners
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Older patient participation in multi-disciplinary decision-making : discharge planning in Scotland and British Columbia,Canada
(The University of Edinburgh, 1998)
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