Criminology PhD

University of Brighton

In studying for a PhD in Criminology at the University of Brighton, you will enter an academic community that addresses challenges within the criminal justice system and beyond, considering social, health, psychological, spatial, and environmental injustice, seeking to transform policy and practice on global and more local scales.We supervise critical approaches to the traditional concerns of criminology and criminal justice with research interests in the justice system, social control, surveillance and security, violence and abuse, politicised criminalisation as well as forms of deviance, protest and resistance.The University of Brighton’s strengths in co-productive research methods, applied and impactful research and its cross-disciplinary frameworks allow for Criminology PhD students to make academic contacts from researchers across a wide range of methodologies, for example through membership of our Law, Society and Justice Research Excellence Group.Career opportunities for Criminology PhD graduates include the justice system, central and local government, non-governmental organisations, social research, teaching, journalism and the media. Our students have also stayed in academia and research at the University of Brighton and elsewhere.Contact an expert in this fieldSuccessful applicants have invariably had support with their application from one of our academics. We suggest you approach a suitable academic staff member with relevant research interests before progressing with your application.Details of our PhD in Criminology/ Criminal JusticeThe University of Brighton has a long-standing reputation for applied and impactful research into and benefiting social justice, equality, humanitarian values and under-represented communities. Staff and PhD student research in and around criminology has resulted in a wealth of funded projects and publications that, for example, investigate:police/public relationships, policing and securitycrowd control and public orderthe prison system, punishment and the death penaltyinterviewing in the criminal justice system, justice-involved individualspolitical perspectives on criminalisation and criminalitycriminal violence and abuse, identity-based violence, bullying and hate crime, including sexuality and gender-focused researchrestorative justicecriminal justice and social policy.