MPhil/PhD Criminology

It is recognised that students require considerable support if they are to become independent researchers. First year students are therefore required to follow a fairly structured pattern of activity during which their progress can be monitored and encouraged. Throughout their studies students are allocated two supervisors and the emphasis is on providing whatever training students require.

As a research student you usually have two internal supervisors with specialist knowledge of their subject areas and regular meetings with them for advice, monitoring and other support. Where appropriate, additional advisors may also be utilised. Research students also get the opportunity to contribute to the School’s internal seminar series and may also be able to contribute to teaching.

Research supervision is available across the range of the Department's subjects, with examples of current students' interests being Sino-Soviet relations in the 1940s, the politics of direct action, war crimes, refugees and asylum seekers, Syrian politics, international relations in the Maghreb, the social exclusion of older people and the policing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gendered people.

Staff have expertise for postgraduate supervision in Criminology including: crime control, policing, the penal system, comparative criminology, penology, philosophy of punishment, miscarriages of justice, sex work, domestic violence and sadomasochism.

Students are encouraged to contribute to the Department's research seminar series, are able to apply for funding to attend conferences, and are encouraged to publish including in the Department's Social Research Paper series and in journals.

For further information and funding your studey please see our Fees & Funding pages.

Fees and Funding

Prof Peter Somerville 
psomerville@lincoln.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1522 886267