该博士学位课程是一项高级研究学位，使学生能够对自己选择的主题进行深入的独立研究，从而为咨询和心理治疗领域的知识做出重大而独特的贡献。咨询和心理疗法专门研究定性，反思和批判性研究方法，在基于实践的研究中具有特殊专业知识，这些实践直接借鉴了从业者自身的治疗工作，客户的治疗经验以及叙事，反思和自动人种志方法。我们特别热衷于鼓励有关咨询，心理治疗与社会，文化和政治生活之间的联系的研究。我们的研究项目是跨学科的，融合了咨询和心理治疗，心理学，社会学，哲学，教育，文化研究，健康和社会护理以及其他社会科学的概念，实践和
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.<br><br>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.<br><br>We are especially keen to encourage research concerned with the interface between counselling, psychotherapy and social, cultural and political life.<br><br>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, and other social sciences.