Child, Youth, Family & Community Studies (PhD)
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    Child, Youth, Family & Community Studies (PhD)

    University of Victoria
    University of Victoria
    Canada
    Canada, Victoria
    University Rank:#358
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    Duration5 year(s)
    Tuition Fee
    CAD 4,143 / Year
    Next IntakeSeptember 1, 2026
    Child, Youth, Family & Community Studies (PhD)

    About

    The focus of this program is preparing you to play key leadership roles at provincial, national, and international levels in the broad field of Child and Youth Care.

    Through research and knowledge development, and with a particular emphasis on the scholarship of practice, graduates will influence teaching, research, policy, practice, program development, and evaluation. Your final project will be a doctoral dissertation.

    This program is offered primarily online. There is a mandatory two-week on-campus seminar held in the fall term of the first year.

    Requirements

    Entry Requirements

    Admission requirements

    Program specific requirements

    CYFCS application form

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    • your responses should fit within the word count noted in the answer fields
      • the selection committee will not review responses that go beyond the word count or are sent as attachments/addendums
    • once completed, upload this form to the Statement of Intent field in the online UVic application portal

    Two professional references

    Sample of academic writing

    • you must be the sole author
    • your sample should demonstrate graduate-level writing capacity, usually your Master's thesis or research project

    Other documents

    • current and complete curriculum vitae (CV)
    • GRE scores, if available (not required)

    Program specific requirements

    CYFCS application form

    Download the application form

    • your responses should fit within the word count noted in the answer fields
      • the selection committee will not review responses that go beyond the word count or are sent as attachments/addendums
    • once completed, upload this form to the Statement of Intent field in the online UVic application portal

    Two professional references

    Sample of academic writing

    • you must be the sole author
    • your sample should demonstrate graduate-level writing capacity, usually your Master's thesis or research project

    Other documents

    • current and complete curriculum vitae (CV)
    • GRE scores, if available (not required)

    Career

    Outcomes

    Graduates of the PhD in Child, Youth, Family and Community Studies will have the skills and knowledge to:

    Uphold decolonial ethics

    • Develop responsive scholarship that contributes to the wellbeing, resurgence, and self-determination of Indigenous nations globally, while also prioritizing the responsibilities to local First Peoples. Graduates will develop scholarship that addresses historical and ongoing forms of exclusion based on intersecting identities, including race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and citizenship.

    Engage in interdisciplinary knowledge production

    • Advance decolonial, critical, and justice-oriented approaches to interdisciplinary knowledge production in diverse local, national, and global contexts to promote the well-being of children, youth, families, and communities.

    Apply critical theory and scholarship

    • Demonstrate a deep understanding and application of critical concepts and theoretical frameworks across disciplines, including critical child, youth and family studies, gender studies, critical disability studies, critical race theory, intersectionality, and Indigenous studiesgraduates will mobilize and advance ethical, strengths-based, and relational approaches to inform practice, research, and policy related to children, youth, families, and communities.

    Demonstrate change-driven leadership

    • Develop and implement responsive and collaborative skills in scholarship, advocacy, and systems-level change, preparing for leadership roles in diverse human service sectors that serve children, youth, and families, including organizations, government, private, not-for-profit, community, post-secondary education, and academia.

    Promote knowledge mobilization for social impact

    • Advance innovation in the application and translation of diverse research methodologies and knowledge mobilization approaches that reflect multiple contexts, communities, and research paradigmsgraduates will promote actionable knowledge transfer through the integration of research, policy, and practice.

    Fee Information

    Tuition Fee
    4,143 / year
    Child, Youth, Family & Community Studies (PhD)
    University of Victoria
    University of Victoria
    Canada

    Canada, Victoria

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