Research Profile
Prof Jonathan Scourfield
Email:Scourfield@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 75402
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74175
Extension:75402
Additional
contact info:
Address:2.30 Glamorgan Building
Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 75402
Fax:+44 (0)29 208 74175
Extension:75402
Additional
contact info:
Address:2.30 Glamorgan Building
Research Interests
- Gender issues in social welfare
- Distress and suicidal behaviour
- Child well-being
- Social work education and research capacity-building
- Children’s identities
Social work research at Cardiff.
Jonathan takes some time to discuss his research interests below.
News
Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy is published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Professor Anthony Giddens, former Director of LSE, has said this about the book:
‘This work is a major contribution to the study of suicide, still one of the core topics in sociology. Introducing a novel methodology and an innovative approach to suicide motivation, it will become a landmark study in the field’.
More information about Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy
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