Part time
4 years
OCT
Professional Doctorate
Criminology Criminal Law
Research
The Professional Doctorate in Criminology and Criminal Justice award is a part-time course designed to provide a specialist route for professionals and managers working in the field of criminal justice, or in related fields, who wish to embark on doctoral study located within their own professional discipline and practice.
OVERVIEW
We welcome inquiries and applications from practitioners and professionals in criminal justice (e.g. policing, courts, probation, prison work, alternative sanctions, community sanctions, service providers in the sphere of drugs and addiction, and so on) or related fields of work and practice (e.g. local authority and third sector service providers in the sphere of crime prevention, security, community building and offender rehabilitation; private providers in the above or related spheres; non-governmental action in a variety of spheres such as environmental action, human rights policy and activism, and so on). This list is not exhaustive.
The DCrim aims to:
• Promote an understanding of research evidence and methodologies relevant to professional practitioners in criminal justice and cognate fields.
• Develop a critical awareness of the broader influences and contexts in which professional practice develops and evolves.
• Enable participants to undertake a research study of relevance and importance to their professional field.
For this course (per year)
£3,050
Please note that international students studying at Keele can only take courses in full-time mode.
A candidate for the Degree of DCrim should: hold a Masters Degree of this University or of another deemed equivalent; and, hold that qualification normally in the general field of social sciences or its equivalent in professional experience in the areas of criminal justice (broadly defined); and, have access to email and the internet for the e-supported parts of the programme.