A collaborative exploration of young people's happiness in Laos.
PhD project
Christina McMellons current research uses collaborative ethnography to explore young Laotian’s experiences and understandings of their subjective wellbeing and how these experiences and assessments are informed by Lao culture and changing global cultures.

Antisocial behaviour and children: their spaces,
relationships and interactions with formal policy
CRFR PhD project
The research is concerned with how children and young people define and understand the concept of antisocial behaviour, and how this is effected by, and effects, children’s relationships with peers, family members, and the wider community.

Asking for it? A Sociological Study of Attitudes towards Rape
Associate PhD project
This PhD research focuses on the influence that rape myths have on definitions and interpretations
of rape in early 21st century British society.

Becoming a Father:  Men’s orientations and decisions in relation to having children
CRFR PhD project

Child-Adult Relationships Beyond the Home and School
Associate PhD project
The aim of the research is to explore children's realtionships with adults who are not their parents
or school teachers from the perspectives of children on the edge of transition from childhood to
adolescence (11/12 years old, Primary 6/7) and living in Social Inclusion Partnership (S.I.P.) areas
within a Scottish city.

Children and Second-Hand Smoking in the Home:
a Qualitative Study
Associate PhD project
Neneh’s PhD study is funded by CSO and aims to increase understanding of children's experiences and views on their second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure and thereby aid the design of more effective health improvement interventions to reduce this exposure.

Children’s perspectives of contact where there has been
a history of domestic abuse
CRFR PhD project

Effect of family policies on the household division of paid work and care
CRFR PhD project

Exploring and assessing research impact in the social sciences
CRFR PhD project
The overall aim of this project will be to explore the assessment of the impact of social science research on local and devolved policy contexts.

Exploring children and young people's experiences and support needs
when affected by parental (or significant carer) alcohol problems
Associate PhD project
This project is a colloboration between the University of Edinburgh and the national voluntary childcare organisation, Barnardo's and is funded as an ESRC Case studentship.
The main objectives of the study are: to understand the diverse experiences of children when a parent
is a problem drinker; to identify these children's understandings of, and engagement with, services that support them in relation to parental alcohol misuse.

Food, families and parenting skills
Associate PhD project

Growing up in Scotland within an international context
CRFR PhD project
This studentship will extend the existing evidence base for policy, enhancing knowledge of early years in Scotland and how it compares to early years experiences and contexts elsewhere.

Habit of a lifetime? Babies diets and family life in Scotland
CRFR PhD project
The research project concerns the development of children's nutritional habits and child health within the context of the family. This is explored primarily through the Growing Up in Scotland longitudinal survey of young children under five years of age.

Half-blood Princes and Princesses: Identity among the Second Generation
of Immigrants in Taiwan
PhD project
In this study, Hung-Chieh will explore what the childhood of children in transnational families is like
and how they define themselves and construct their identities.

A collaborative exploration of young people's happiness in Laos.
CRFR PhD project
Christina McMellon's current research uses collaborative ethnography to explore young Laotian’s experiences and understandings of their subjective wellbeing and how these experiences and assessments are informed by Lao culture and changing global cultures.

Health for all children: how professionals and parents experience
the implementation of Hall 4
CRFR PhD project
The study explores the implementation of Hall 4 in Lothian from the perspectives of health professionals
and parents.

Heroes and heroines or just like us? Exploring children's views
on childhood in children's fiction
Associate PhD project
The study explores children’s views on how childhood is represented in
children’s books. It considers children’s perspectives as to whether fictional texts accurately reflect their everyday lives and relationships, comparing these with children’s experience of other forms of popular culture such as television and films.

How do individuals make fertility decisions?
Associate PhD project
This project explores the factors that influence how people make fertility decisions.

How rural communities respond to and prepare for climatic changes
Associate PhD project

Investigating young people's attitudes to violence against women
Associate PhD project
Examining younger children's (aged 10 & 11) attitudes to violence against
women.

Looking After Children: A study of young people’s experiences of home
supervision in Scotland
Associate PhD project
Emerging data suggests that children who are ‘looked after’ at home, are likely to have the worst
outcomes amongst ‘looked after’ children in general. The aim of this research is to explore whether
the poor outcomes for children ‘looked after’ at home are attributable to their experiences of being
looked after per se, or to wider experiences of disadvantage.

Narrative research with people who have Down's syndrome
and dementia
Associate PhD project
This two stage mixed method research project will first involve determining how dementia was suspected in the person someone was caring for and who was involved in this process and secondly how they see their sense of identity in relation to those around them.

Person-focused approach in services for older people with intellectual disabilities:
doing life story work with older people with mild or moderate intellectual disability
PhD project
The project will focus on life story work, service recipient’s reactions and the effects
of knowing a person’s life story on the attitudes and practice of service providers.
The project is planned with field work in Norway and UK which hopefully will start
in autumn 2009, with results in spring 2011.

Policy influence of children’s voluntary organisations
Associate PhD project

Sexual Communication between heterosexual couples in Scotland
CRFR PhD project

Staying Together
CRFR PhD project
Staying Together: an exploration of longer term married relationships, is an ESRC CASE funded project, being undertaken in collaboration with Care for the Family, an organisation that aims to strengthen family life.

Understanding contructions and perspectives of quality of life
in dementia care
Associate PhD project
In this study, Jane is using focused interviews to elicit subjective perspectives on quality of life from people with dementia and their carers.

Young People's Experiences in Residential School:
Concerns and 'Complaints
Associate PhD project
Using institutional ethnography, this research explores young people's experiences in a residential
school with expressing concern or making 'complaints' about the services they receive.