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The Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology – (Ph.D.)

University of Kent, Canterbury Campus

Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Application Deadline: as early as possible
Annual Tuition Fee: ≈ € 4,360 - ≈ € 13,116 (non-EEA)
Location: Canterbury / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 36 months Start Date: September
Educational Form:
  • Academic PhD
Education Variants:
  • Parttime
  • Fulltime
Funding:
  • National: partial
  • EEA: partial
  • Non EEA: partial
Location flexibility:
  • Primarily at University
Project type:
  • Predefined PhD project
Credits (ECTS): 180
Languages: English 
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Location of University of Kent, Canterbury Campus

The DCGC is a double-degree programme that offers the opportunity to conduct doctoral research, co-supervised with a European partner institution, and receive associated training at Kent and one or more other partners.


Contents

The DCGC is a double-degree programme that offers the opportunity to conduct doctoral research, co-supervised with a European partner institution, and receive associated training at Kent and one or more other partners

We offer :

* High-quality supervision across a wide range of areas.
* Individually tailored supervisory teams.
* A careful programme of induction, monitoring and development designed to advance your studies and career.
* Membership of School Research Groups
* Career development through a Professional Seminar Series
* Access to a range of seminar series
* Membership of study groups.

If you wish to join with us to study for a research degree, it is advisable to make contact with a potential supervisor in order to develop with them a proposal.

IELTS

You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.

Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.

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Requirements

A good honours degree or MA in criminology, criminal justice or a related social science discipline.

The University requires all non-native speakers of English to produce evidence of proficiency in written and spoken English. We require a minimum score in one of the following:

* 6.5 in International English Language Test (IELTS)
* 600 in paper-based or 250 computer-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
* 'B' in the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English
* 'A' in the Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English

Additional Requirements

Minimal degree required: Master's degree
Minimal amount of work experience Not specified

Language Proficiency

IELTS Band: 6.5
TOEFL Paper-based: 600
TOEFL Computer-based: 250

Faculty

Staff research

Dr Phil Carney: Lecturer in Criminology; Erasmus and International Co-ordinator; Kent Co-ordinator, Common Study Programme in Critical Criminology
Photographic theory; spectacle; radical criminology; cultural criminology; critical visual culture; post-structuralist critical theory; desire and power; the micropolitics of fascism.

Dr Caroline Chatwin: Lecturer in Criminology
European drug policy; young people and victimisation; drug use and subcultural studies.

Dr Jennifer Fleetwood: Lecturer in Criminology
Gender and crime; drug trafficking; ethnography; narrative; research ethics.

Professor Chris Hale: Professor of Criminology; Director of Kent Criminal Justice Centre; Head of School
How political debates around law and order have affected responses to crime; quantitative analysis of crime data, especially the relationships between crime and fear of crime with wider economic and social changes; evaluations of new interventions and crime reduction strategies; policing; youth crime.

Dr Keith Hayward: Senior Lecturer in Criminology; Director of Studies for Criminology
Criminological theory; youth crime; popular culture; social theory; terrorism and fanaticism; cultural criminology.

Dr Johnny Ilan: Lecturer in Criminology
Ethnography, youth, class, urban sociology and cultural criminology

Professor Roger Matthews: Professor of Criminology; Director of Studies for Postgraduate Criminology
Penology, community safety and crime prevention, prostitution, armed robbery, punitiveness, left realism.

Dr Kate O'Brien: Lecturer in Criminology
The night-time economy; drug markets; bouncers and private policing.

Professor Larry Ray: Professor of Sociology; Director of Graduate Studies (Research)
Sociological theory; globalisation; race and ethnicity; violence.

Professor Kevin Stenson: Professor of Criminology Criminological theory, risk and governmance, youth crime.

Professor Jock Young: Professor of Criminology
Social exclusion and crime; immigration; causes and consequences of terrorism; criminological theory.

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