Qualifications |
Duration |
Start dates |
Application period |
PhD
(MPhil also available) |
Full time: 3–4 years
Part time: 6–8 years |
February and October |
January to April |
Qualifications
PhD (MPhil also available) |
Duration
Full time: 3–4 years
Part time: 6–8 years |
Start dates
February and October |
Application period
January to April |
The Social Policy and Criminology is recognised for critical scholarship, that challenges assumptions about ‘crime’, ‘the criminal’ and/or ‘justice’ and critically interrogates criminology as a discipline. Substantive areas of interest include:
- policing practices, integrity, and/or ethics
- counterinsurgency and political policing
- empirical examinations of prison life and its harms
- penal policy, punishment and justice
- corporate and/or state crimes and harms
- corporate and/or state power and the research process
- colonialism and coloniality
- the Global North/South
- music subcultures, countercultures and social movements
- intersections between urban culture and crime and justice
- governance of disengaged youth
- responses to the economic crisis
- criminalisation of homelessness
- harms to non-human animals
- sexual and other forms of violence
- gendered harms in social justice movements
- substance use and prohibitionist drug policies
- illegal drugs
- gambling
- Scottish nationalism and criminal justice policies
Many staff are members of the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative. Research students are encouraged to participate in the supportive and collegial research culture of the discipline.
Entry requirements
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.
Potential research projects
We are open to receiving proposals on a wide range of research projects on this broad topic.
Potential supervisors
Fees and funding
UK fee |
International fee |
Full time: £4,712 per year |
Full time: £11,958 per year |
Part time: £2,356 per year |
Part time: £5,979 per year |
Some of our research students are funded via The Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.
For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.
To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.
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