We support an active and vibrant postgraduate research community and welcome applications for doctoral study that centre the issues of social justice and social change.
If you’d like to get in contact about PhD study, please email [email protected].
Current and recent PhD students supervised in the centre include:
- Victoria Burgher: Crafting counter-hegemony: using porcelain to interrogate constructed ideologies of whiteness and empire
- Kaigan Carrie: Does prison work impact their ability to be happy? A comparative study of prison officers in Scotland and Finland
- Simon Félix: Stepping stones to self-change: A narrative, psychosocial mapping of the desistance journey
- Jairton Ferraz Junior: Provisory prisoners and sentenced prisoners kept together in Brazilian remand prisons: conviviality issues
- Maria Giaever: An assemblage of affective sounds: resistance and power through the Palestinian electronic music scene
- Carl Gordon: An investigation into the possible impacts of private family visits in the UK and why they have never been implemented
- Lorette Green: ‘A little bit patronising if I’m being honest’: working-class mothering and expert discourses
- Marta Grymska: Factors influencing the growing radical populism in European region and its implications for political developments
- Edward Hadfield: Place and publicness: How social media has shaped anti-gentrification campaigns in London
- Nayyar Hussain: The South Kilburn Estate, racialised minorities and young adults: the impacts of state-led gentrification
- Lonceny Kourouma: Examining the Black doctoral students’ lived experiences in the UK within a decolonising lens
- Njideka Obi: Criminalisation of Migration in the UK: Women's Perspective and Experience
- Maduka Ogbuonye: Police-community engagement programme and minority ethnic communities: a study of the attraction and persuasion of the information sharing process in the Police Channel Programme
- Ashundria Oliver: Police and Community: working relations, "cold" cases, homicide, and victimisation
- Iuliia Patsiukova: Machine learning in criminology: mathematical and sociological description of how institutions think
- Dan Petrosian: Anti-racist video activism: framing and production of new knowledges that challenge the post-truth hegemonic project
- Karin Wejmo: Guilty until proven innocent: Experiences of remand prison following acquittal
- Daniel Whyte: Examining the effects of long-term multiple adverse childhood experiences and the ways in which they effect higher education engagement of people with long prison sentences
- Clare Williams: Silenced Sisters: Incredulity and Integrity in the Reception of Black British Women’s Testimony