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 Name: 

Yohai Hakak             

Title: 

Dr

Qualifications:

BSW, MSW and Ph.D (social work).

Department:

School of Health Sciences & Social Work

Address:

James Watson West, 2 King Richard 1^st Road, Portsmouth P01 2FR

Email:

yohai.hakak@port.ac.uk

Telephone:

023 92 84 2960

What is your role on the Professional Doctorate? 

None. Occasionally do lectures on ethnographic research.

What is your background? 

I have worked as a mental health social worker for 9 years (in Israel), and also as a journalist. Then I worked as a research fellow for different research institutes conducting my own research.

What are your research interests? 

Qualitative research in social and health care, young people, religion and ethnic minorities, the body (from a sociological point of view) men and masculinities. In recent years I am especially interested in parenting.

How many times have you supervised as:-

Publications (up to three)

• Hakak, Y. (2011). Egalitarian Fundamentalism, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol 26(2): 289-308. 
• Hakak, Y. (2011) Psychology and Democracy in the Name of the God?  The Invocation of Modern and Secular Discourses on Parenting in the Service of Conservative Religious Aims, Mental Health, Culture and Religion, Vol 14(5): 433-458.
• Hakak, Y. (2009). Youthful Bodies Rebel: Young Men in Current Israeli Haredi Yeshivas, Young, 17 (3): 221-240.

Current Projects:

• Islamic parenting in the West: an analysis of Islamic parenting guidebooks written by Islamic religious leaders and educators for Islamic parents in the West

• Online Communities of Struggle and Hope: Social Work Service Users, Carers and Parents on the Web

Past Projects:

• I have recently completed a project that analysed Jewish Ultra Orthodox parenting guide books. I was especially interested in examining how these guidebooks integrate between Western modern psychological discourse and traditional Jewish sources. 

Define best research/education experience:

Completing a series of studies on a religious minority struggling with sever social problems and being appointed as a government consultant to use this knowledge to make a change. Following that I have also co-directed a documentary series (broadcasted on national Israeli TV, Arte channel and many film festivals around the world) to further disseminate the knowledge gained through this research. 

Favourite relevant quote:

Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

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