PhD Studentship- University of Exeter

This PhD study will investigate whether there are effective community-based interventions that could better serve families affected by multiple adversities, by responding to needs in more than one domain.

he PhD will involve a series of inter-related studies that aim:

• to investigate what interventions delivered in the community might have combined impacts on all three public health issues;
• to use existing datasets to explore the prevalence of the ‘toxic trio’ in families, and the clustering of individual, family and community risk factors that might be addressed by early intervention;
• to understand what current service-users and professionals consider would provide more effective support for children and families affected by violence, poor mental health and parental substance misuse.