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The University of Edinburgh: Counselling Studies (PhD)

Institution The University of Edinburgh View institution profile
Department School of Health in Social Science
Web https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying
Study type Research

Summary

This PhD programme is an advanced research degree enabling students to conduct in-depth independent research on a topic of their choice, thereby making a significant and original contribution to knowledge in the field of counselling and psychotherapy.

Counselling and psychotherapy specialise in qualitative, reflexive and critical approaches to research, and have particular expertise in practice-based research that draws directly on practitioners' own therapeutic work, on the client's experience of therapy, and in narrative, reflexive and auto-ethnographic methods.

We are especially keen to encourage research concerned with the interface between counselling, psychotherapy and social, cultural and political life.

Our research portfolio is highly interdisciplinary, integrating concepts, practices and scholarship from:

  • counselling and psychotherapy

  • psychology

  • sociology

  • philosophy

  • education

  • cultural studies

  • health and social care

  • other social sciences

Our interests include:

  • disability

  • gender

  • trauma

  • abuse

  • counselling children and young people

  • sexualities

You can read more about our research interests and publications on our website.

Recent successful PhD topics have included:

  • how children express emotions in aesthetic arts curricula in primary schools

  • how suffering is transacted in therapeutic work with parents of children with disabilities; and

  • how people with anorexia recover through psychotherapy

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Edinburgh. Extraordinary futures await.

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 22nd in the 2024 QS World University Rankings.

Our position as one of Britain’s leading research universities was reaffirmed by the results of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 90% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.

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