Current PhD Students and Research Topics
| Monika | Consent and the Rape Law in India: Interrogating the Implications of Consent |
| Arosemena Burbano, Maria | The association between family exposure to violence and the development of morality in early childhood. |
| Atherley, Loren |
Risk Managing Demand for Differential Response: A Case Study in Evidence-Based Policing. |
| Bonfield, Miles | Cyber Crime and Organised Crime; a Statistical Analysis of the Threat and What Works Against it. |
| Butler, Daniel | Predicting Cybercrime Pathways: A Textual Analysis. |
| Campo-Tena, Laura | Understanding gender differences in adolescent dating violence victimisation: a longitudinal investigation of associated predictors and outcomes |
| Carlo, Sarah | Motivation and Morality in Situational Action Theory: Moderating Intimate Partner Violence. |
| Cooper, John | How effective is police-led diversion |
| Demole, Noelle | An exploration of the modus operandi used by sex traffickers in the UK. |
| Dewan, Sarika | Global trends in direct and indirect conflict-related mortality: towards targeted prevention and intervention. |
| Dixon, Sophie | Child sexual exploitation networks in the UK: an analysis of how they operate. |
| Ellis, Sophie | Legitimacy in prison-based forensic psychology practices. |
| Fallone, Andrew | Unseen Walls: A Critical, Postcolonial and Pro-Feminist Approach to the Differential Impacts of State Policies on 'Irregular' Migrants' Access to Information during Journeys through Mexico and Algeria. |
| Fischer, Ariadni | How do people experience simultaneous family imprisonment in English prisons? |
| Gardom, Judith | 'Reading for pleasure' in prisons in England and Wales: meaning and motives (working title). |
| Giannidi, Alexandra |
Why offender rehabilitation? |
| Goldrosen, Nicholas | Police Misconduct and Network Analysis |
| Harber, Katherine | Does a replicated Turning Point diversion study in NW London show similar or different reoffending results to the study in Birmingham and why? |
| Herrmann, Christoph | Exploring the utility of the fully immersive 360-degree video scenario method for the study of the situational causes of crime. |
| Hickie, Susannah | Protecting the Protectors: What is next for police officers? |
| Hitchcock, Sydney | An investigation into the barriers and facilitators guiding bystander decision-making in UK university students during situations of sexual misconduct. |
| Hogan, Thomas |
Getting Away With Rape: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Rape Charging Decisions in England and Wales |
| Huang, Yantian | Proposed research title: The abuse and exploitation of foreign domestic workers |
| Imoro, Mohammed Za-Yan | Institutionalizing Anti-Corruption Agencies: A Study of The Enforcement Process of Ghana's Office of The Special Prosecutor and Right to Information Act. |
| Jordan, Jasmine | The Symbiotic Harms of Incarceration: Political and Community Effects of the Incarceration of Black Women. |
| Knisley, Alyssa | Group criminality in the neighborhood: situating street gangs and social processes within communities in London |
| Lesiak, Magdalen | Proposed research title: Victims’ Emotional Attachment to Their Perpetrators- New Perspectives |
| Li, Rosalie Jiahui | Chinese juvenile offenders' experiences attitudes towards educational and correctional programmes. |
| Li, Wenyue | A Quantitative Network-Based Study in the Visualisation and Suppression of Illicit Drug Networks in the UK |
| Linton, Ben | Targeting, testing and tracking of police interventions to reduce knife crime, focusing on the impact of knife crime prevention orders. |
| Lovatt-Waters, Graeme | Proposed research title: Restorative Policing in England and Wales |
| Lyne, William | Proposed research title: “Ransom here, there and everywhere”: Assessing the United Kingdom Response against the Ransomware Threat |
| Mejia-O'Donnell, Tania | Prison pen-pals: The value of correspondence from laypeople |
| Mullin, Juliette | Drug-related deaths under probation supervision following release from prison. |
| Padmanabhan, Kavya | Welfare as Punishment? Understanding Disadvantaged Mothers’ Lives Within the Neoliberal State |
| Pataki, Rita | Demand the Impossible: Criminology, Utopia & Abolition |
| Peng, Shihan | A Transcultural Study on the Association between Early Childhood Abuse CallousUnemotional Traits: Comparison between China and the UK |
| Experiences of supervision: Men released on license and assessed as a high risk of perpetrating intimate partner violence | |
| Pomeroy, Jasmine | The Prevent Profile: exploring the modern cyber-dependent offender |
| Przybylska, Daria | Exploring the qualities and experiences of women’s open imprisonment: A semi-ethnographic study |
| Quin, Emily | Exploring the ‘Copper’s Nose’ and the discourse surrounding its perceived existence, value and impact on policing in the UK |
| Read, Bradley | Moral Quality and the Parole Process: understanding the role of prisoner identity, emotions, and ‘human vibrations’ in the parole system today |
| Rennie, Ailie | The impact of release on mandatory life-sentenced prisoners' identities. |
| Rock, Freya |
An Exploration of the Expressive and Communicative Function of the Victim Personal Statement in Sentencing Hearings in England and Wales. |
| Rose, Simon |
An analysis of the solvability factors across all volume crime types to fill the gaps in solvability factor research, resolve the contradictions between previous studies and address the challenges to external validity arising from different datasets |
| Rotherham, Simon | The impact of Behavioural Detection training on Stop and Search efficacy and delivering procedurally just encounters. |
| Seif, Jeffrey | The Effects of a Cadet Training Component on Police Attitudes: A Randomized Controlled Trial |
| Shahbazov, Ingilab | Proposed research title: Corruption victims: do people facing bribery requests report their case? |
| Sharma, Kanupriya | Negotiating Love & Intimacy Behind Bars: Understanding women's imprisonment and resettlement experiences through the lens of intimate relationships |
| Shi, Shujing | Explore the Chinese Organised Drug Trafficking |
| Sinclair, Richard | Proposed research title: “Fraud Prevention, Who Listens and Can People Change Their Ways?” |
| Sowatey, Emmanuel | The Meanings, Nature and Experiences of Corruption among Police Officers in Ghana |
| Spence, Alison |
How do police leaders negotiate the technical and institutional environments in managing police performance? |
| Suchomel Duskova, Eliska | A qualitative study of how and why children in Czechia are told about their parent's imprisonment. |
| Tomlinson, Paul | Proposed research title: Deterring Police Misconduct: A randomised control trial of in-service strategies to reduce misconduct amongst officers with identified risk factor |
| Trainor, Sara | What is the role of private prosecution in the English criminal justice system? |
| Tripathi, Karan | Proposed research title: Tech-panopticon Policing: Gendered Security, Citizenship, and Democracy in India’s “Safe City Project” |
| Tu, Hiu Hei |
Juvenile Delinquency in Hong Kong: Moral Education in the Context of Situational Action Theory |
| Uhl, Andrzej | Proposed research title: Corruption between morality and control: Applying Situational Action Theory to a bribery experiment |
| Verrey, Jacob |
Towards a Brave New World: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Public Safety via Algorithmic Analysis of Human Behavior |
| Vince, Claudia | Trauma and life imprisonment: How do men and women serving life sentences deal with and process experiences of trauma? |
| Walker, Brian | Proposed research title: ‘We Want Justice!’ : How Media Shape and Are Shaped by Experiences of (In)Justice in Jamaica |
| Yang, Junyi |
Dating violence and gaslighting experiences among university students |
| Yin, Mark | Proposed research title: Children before court: young people’s encounters with the law |