Finding a supervisor
We understand how important it is to find the right supervisor for your research thesis.
Our staff conduct world-leading research across seven specialist themes, covering a wide range of topics, methods, and regions. This diversity allows us to offer PhD supervision on a broad spectrum of issues within criminology, from violence, inequality, and punishment to data-driven policing, digital crime, and organised offending.
Our supervisors work across a range of Criminology research themes:
- Fraud, white-collar and organised crime
- Advanced analytics in criminology
- Exploitation, violence and abuse
- Prisons, punishment and policing
- Drug markets, consumption and policy.
- Policing and the police
- Digital technologies and crime
Each theme leads original and policy-relevant research, attracts PhD students from around the world, and contributes to research-driven teaching across our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
We recommend you identify a prospective supervisor from our academic staff profiles before submitting your application for the Criminology PhD. Doing so will ensure that your proposed research aligns with one or more of our research themes.
You can explore our academic staff profiles to see who works in your area of interest and what topics they supervise. Our staff are always happy to hear from potential applicants and to provide feedback on an initial research proposal draft if they are interested in supervising your proposed research.
