PRiCe (Practice Research in Child Welfare) lab

PRiCe (Practice Research in Child Welfare) Lab is a research group, led by Dr Philip Archard and is closely connected to two of our doctoral programmes in social work and social care, and child, community, and educational psychology.  

The lab’s work focusses on the intersection between child and adolescent mental health, child welfare and social inequality and is driven by a commitment to research that matters, i.e., practitioner-, service-, and community-initiated research that offers tangible real-world value. The lab also functions as a site through which we can engage in researching research itself, where we can examine the conceptualisation and ‘doing’ of practice research while fostering a critical learning environment for doctoral researchers. In doing so, we continue the Trust’s tradition in undertaking and learning from pioneering work in applied social science, especially qualitative research using psychoanalytic and psychosocial perspectives. We are also dedicated to building research capacity and leadership, equipping graduates to lead research and knowledge exchange activity in the field.  

Research currently linked to PRiCe include a range of studies addressing different matters relating to child welfare and mental health, children’s and professionals’ experiences, as well as the analysis of encounters between professionals, children and families in mental health care.

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