PhD Criminology / Overview

The Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice has an international reputation for doctoral and post-doctoral research and hosts around 30 PhD candidates each year. The programme is ideal for those looking to undertake state of the art doctoral research investigating a diverse array of social and criminological issues. The Centre specialises in research clustered around five key themes : Drugs: Markets, policies and consumption; Violence and the aftermath of violence; Fraud, white collar and organised crime; Social exclusion, insecurity and policing; and, Justice innovation and law reform. The Centre welcomes applications that fit with the particular specialisms of our research staff. For example, we currently have grants in the areas of desistance, fraud, drugs, cryptomarkets, modern slavery, corruption, organised crime, policing and punishment, amongst others.

In addition, the Centre has expertise in a range of methodologies including biographical and narrative approaches to interviewing, ethnography, psychosocial case analysis, network analysis, deliberative methods, qualitative and quantitative longitudinal research, survey design and applied statistical analysis, programme evaluation, historical and policy analysis. Candidates will therefore have access to cutting edge approaches to researching criminological issues.

Potential applicants should contact members of the Centre before submitting a formal application. We encourage you to identify which members of the Centre best match your research interests, and to contact potential supervisors with well thought out ideas about the research you would like to undertake. The profiles of our criminology staff can be found here .

The PhD in Criminology enables candidates to pursue research excellence in an environment that supports intellectual and personal development. Our School is committed to ensure PhD students flourish while in Manchester. Our research students are provided with extensive research support and training by the School and by the Faculty of Humanities. Research students are provided with two academic supervisors as well as an adviser to provide pastoral support.

The School is proud to be a member of the North West Economic and Social Research Council doctoral training partnership and approved by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to award funded studentships, both of which provide extensive training across the region. The School is also a member of the N8 Policing Research Partnership. We are also able to host Commonwealth and Fullbright Scholarships, as well as annually advertised School funded studentships in addition to industry and public sector funded PhDs.

The next Postgraduate Research Open Day will take place on Wednesday 24th October 2018 and is a good chance to meet with academic staff, have a look around the University and find out more about PhD study at the University of Manchester. Follow the link to register for the event.

We will also be at the Law Fair at Manchester Central on Tuesday 13th November 2018.

Watch the presentations from a previous Open Day on the University website .