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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Weighing up the bag of potatoes test: tribunals and Incapacity Benefit
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996-12-07)In April 1995, a new social security benefit was introduced. It required the Benefits Agency to decide whether a claimant was capable of doing such things as lifting a 2.5kg bag of potatoes, putting on a hat, or walking ... -
Re-imagining family group conferencing ‘outcomes’
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)Family Group Conferencing (FGC) is a family led decision-making approach where practical plans are made by the family to keep children safe and improve their quality of life. FGC has attracted worldwide interest from ... -
Resolving work-related Injury problems in China: comparing migrant and urban workers
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-07-01)This thesis seeks to describe and explain differences in the ways in which migrant and urban workers in China deal with problems arising out of injuries sustained at work. A socio-legal approach is adopted and a mixed-method ... -
Exploring the cultural conceptualisations and understandings of child fostering and the concept of the child's best interests among the Dagomba of Northern Ghana
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015-11-25)Anthropological and demographic studies show that in sub-Sahara Africa a large proportion of non-orphaned children (up to 1/3 in many communities) live with neither parent but often with relatives for a significant part ... -
Experiences of violent and property victimization in Santiago neighbourhoods: multilevel approaches to social disorganization theory and new ecological studies of crime
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)Social Disorganization Theory (SDT) stated that in poor and unstable neighbourhoods, residents may have difficulty developing and maintaining social order, due to the weaknesses of their social networks and the infrequent ... -
Behavioural responses to automatic enrolment in workplace pension schemes
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)In October 2012, the United Kingdom adopted nation-wide automatic enrolment into workplace pension schemes. Automatic enrolment on the current scale is a major undertaking but it is also an untested policy and it is ... -
Exploring child-led research: case studies from Bangladesh, Lebanon and Jordan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-27)The right to participate and express a view is an intrinsic right afforded to all human beings, regardless of age (Lundy, 2007). Explicitly, Articles 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of ... -
Re-imagining family group conferencing 'outcomes'
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)Family Group Conferencing (FGC) is a family led decision-making approach where practical plans are made by the family to keep children safe and improve their quality of life. FGC has attracted worldwide interest from ... -
Raised online by Daddy: fatherhoods and childhoods in Taiwanese father-run baby blogs
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)This research explored how and in what ways early childhood and fatherhood are constructed in Taiwanese father-run baby blogs. Nowadays, many parents use the internet to record and share their experiences of being (and ... -
Making visible inter-agency working processes in children’s services
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-09)Inter-agency working has been promoted as a way forward to improve public services, including children’s services. However, the terminology is problematic because it often overlaps with other terminologies, such as ... -
Institutionalising activation for sickness and disability benefit claimants in the active UK and Danish welfare states
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-29)The last 15 years have seen governments in a number of mature welfare states attempting to reintegrate people out of work for reasons of sickness and disability into employment, principally through changes to the value ... -
Intergenerational transfers in European families
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-11-26)This research examines the financial assistance given by parents to their adult children and the extent to which it is influenced by social policy. In recent years these intergenerational financial transfers have been the ... -
Risk and vulnerability in socially excluded groups and communities: welfare issues and policy responses
(The University of Edinburgh, 2008)SYNOPSIS: The research publications of the author have as their focus a coherent concern with risk behaviours and the management of the personal and social problems underpinning these forms of behaviour, including policy ... -
Chaplaincy, power and prophecy in the Scottish prison system: the changing role of the prison chaplain
(The University of Edinburgh, 1997)The thesis is concerned with the changing role of the prison chaplain in the Scottish prison system and includes an empirical investigation of the current role of chaplaincy -
Community food initiatives: a comparative study of approaches addressing the link between poor diet and low income in Scotland and Canada
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005)Ill-health associated with poor diet has underlined the importance of food consumption as a central issue of public policy. One of the key interventions to promote healthy eating in socio-economically disadvantaged local ... -
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 ... -
Non-traditional security in Greece: terrorism, migration and securitisation theory
(The University of Edinburgh, 2007)This thesis is about the shift in Greek security policy and thinking from a narrow focus on military issues and Greek-Turkish relations to a broader and more sophisticated policy, where 'internal' threats and non-traditional ... -
Mainstreaming equality at the Scottish Executive: the discursive construction of policy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005)This thesis addresses the central paradox of gender and equality mainstreaming: namely that the remarkable diffusion of the strategy and its widespread adoption has been in stark contrast to the lack of evidence for any ...
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