14 Criminal Law and Criminology PhDs in United Kingdom

PhD in Security and Crime PhDs at UCL SECReT

UCL SECReT is the £17m international centre for PhD training in security and crime science at University College London, the first centre of its kind in Europe. We offer the most comprehensive integrated PhD programme for students wishing to pursue multidisciplinary security or crime-related research degrees ranging from forensic science, cyber crime and terrorism through to resilience, sensors and intelligence analysis.

PhD in Law

University of Essex

This allows you to undertake research in the field of law.

PhD in Law PhD

The University of Manchester

The Manchester Law School is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the UK and has considerable strengths in all of the major areas of teaching and research including common law and public law, jurisprudence, EU law, international economic law, commercial law, intellectual property law and law and economics. The interdisciplinary strengths of the Law School are enhanced by the presence within it of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (CSEP), which conducts cutting edge medical ethical research, and the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, with teaching and research offered by recognised experts in these fields.

PhD in Law

Cardiff University

Cardiff Law School offers opportunities for both full and part-time study leading to the degrees of MPhil and PhD.

PhD in Social Sciences (Sociology, Criminology)

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus

We offer MPhil and PhD research degrees in a range of topics linked to staff expertise in the fields of Social Sciences, including Sociology and Criminology. Our staff are recognised as experts in their fields, and have produced a number of influential books, journal articles and edited collections, and won funding for a number of prestigious research projects.

PhD in Human Rights

University of Essex

This allows you to undertake research in the field of human rights.

PhD in Criminology PhD

The University of Manchester

The Manchester Law School is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the UK and has considerable strengths in major areas of teaching and research. There are three major disciplines within the School - with Criminology being one.  The discipline of Criminology also contains within it socio-legal studies, and so forming the School's Centre for Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies, with teaching and research offered by recognised experts in these fields.

PhD in Forensic Psychology

University of Kent, Canterbury Campus

The breadth of our research interests allows us to offer supervision of research degrees in a number of areas of psychology, including: social psychology; developmental psychology (including children's and adolescents' prejudices, peer exclusion, visual and language processing in children and infants); forensic psychology; cognitive psychology; existential psychology; personality and motivation.

PhD in Law

The University of Edinburgh

Doctoral candidates at the Edinburgh Law School are assisted by the appointment of two supervisors, a principal supervisor and an assistant supervisor. These are experts in their field of study and are carefully chosen to provide each candidate with the best possible support to develop their thesis. Supervision is tailored to each candidate's needs, identifying specific training requirements, eg: in empirical methods or language training.

PhD in Law

University of Dundee

Dundee Law School has a flourishing and supportive research environment in which staff, students and researchers are encouraged to workshop their ideas. All staff in the Law School are expected to be research active and the range of research activity is wide.

PhD in Socio-legal Studies

University of Kent, Canterbury Campus

We welcome applications for research degrees in a wide range of areas. We recommend you contact the School informally before applying, and you should accompany your application with a brief (two- to four-page) outline of the research project you envisage and your intended methodology. You may find it helpful to discuss your project informally with an appropriate member of staff (contact details are on our website) or with the Director of Postgraduate Research.

PhD in The Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology

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.