Doctoral Study
The DPhil entails researching and writing a thesis of between 75,000 and 100,000 words over a period of three or at the most four years. The thesis must make a significant and substantial contribution to the field. Students are never admitted to the DPhil programme directly. They are transferred to DPhil status following a ‘qualifying test’ taken at the end of their first year as a probationer research student, or following the MPhil in Criminology and Criminal Justice. DPhil students work under the guidance of at least one supervisor who will be an acknowledged authority on their chosen topic.
The areas in which members of the Centre for Criminology are able to offer supervision include:
- policing and security;
- sentencing;
- crime, risk and justice;
- human rights and criminal justice;
- victims;
- prisons;
- crime and the family
- the sociology of punishment;
- restorative justice;
- death penalty;
- public responses to crime;
- the politics of crime control;
- crime, criminology and social/political theory;
- crime in the family;
- comparative criminology
- youth justice.
More about the current activities of DPhil students in the Centre for Criminology
DPhil students in the Centre for Criminology have access to dedicated workspace in the Centre, as well as to the Bodleian Social Science Library and the Bodleian Law Library. They will also be able to participate fully in the intellectual life of the Centre through its programme of staff-student research workshops, reading groups and seminars. Information about supervision, induction procedures, availability of facilities, accommodation, and other important details, are set out in the Statement of Provision for Graduate Research Students.
Informal enquiries about doctoral studies in the Centre for Criminology are welcome and should be directed to Dr Jane Donoghue, Director of Graduate Studies (Research). She can be contacted at: jane.donoghue@crim.ox.ac.uk
