Criminology

The Criminology pathway offers studentships across a range of routes.

The 1+3.5 route allows students with little or no substantive training in criminology to be registered for the MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice, before going on to doctoral study.

The +4 route provides for students who have postgraduate qualifications in cognate areas, such as law, to spend a year being trained in core and subject-specific research methods that meet the ESRC 2022 Training Guidelines before commencing work on their doctoral thesis.

The +3.5 route allows students who have completed core training that meets the ESRC 2022 Training Guidelines to undertake doctoral study at Oxford.

Further information about the DPhil in Criminology can be found here.

The Centre has close links with HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Thames Valley Police and many other criminal justice agencies, charities and civil society organisations, which provide students with many opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaborative working. Current and former students have engaged in projects involving working with:

• A local immigration solicitor’s firm providing legal advice to incarcerated men in HMP Huntercombe
• The Death Penalty Project, London
• Thames Valley Police

Centre staff members also engage in a range of knowledge exchange activities, holding seminars with practitioners and working collaboratively to disseminate research.

Destinations for students graduating from the training pathway include: academia, NGOs and other civil society organisations, the legal profession; government. Recent graduates have moved into lectureships at major UK and overseas universities and research positions at civil society organisations