PhD Supervisors - Law and Criminology
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Private International Law (Conflict of Laws), International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration
I welcome PhD proposals in the field of Law and Religion (within the context of the English Legal System)
Dr Barlow welcomes applications in the field of gender and crime. She is particularly interested in supervising projects in the following areas: violence against women and girls, policing domestic abuse and/or sexual violence, female offending/ co-offending, media representations of gender and crime,
Dr Bryan would be happy to supervise postgraduate students in most areas within the broad field of Criminal Justice Studies (including, the Laws of Evidence and Proof; Criminal Law, the Administration of Criminal Justice; International Criminal Law, International Criminal Justice; Comparative Criminal Law; Comparative Criminal Justice). Dr Bryan also welcomes research proposals focusing on Human Rights, Civil Liberties, Legal History, Legal Theory, Legal Regulation and Social Control.
Professor Campbell is happy to consider proposals in the area of the law of contract, the application of economic and social theories to law and the theory and practice of regulation.
Property and land law; gender and the law; feminist legal theory/history; equality theory and practice; discourse analysis; socio-legal studies.
Private family law, public family law, child protection, looked after children, adoption
I welcome enquiries from potential doctoral students, particularly projects that consider the complexity of language and/or law in safeguarding/child protection/identifying vulnerabilities, projects that use corpus or computational linguistics methods to analyse legal materials, projects about the "sayable and the unsayable" including supra-jurisdictional regulation of cyber-hate (speech) and/or cyber-fake (news), and projects about regulation and control of threatening communications.
Dr Easton is willing to supervise PhDs in the general areas of internet law and intellectual property. Relevant topics include: Internet governance, website accessibility, domain name regulation, Internet service provider liability and online copyright infringements.
Sofia is interested in supervising PhD projects in Corporate Insolvency Law, Company Law, Financial Law and Banking Law. She will also consider aspects of Contract Law.
Georgina Firth welcomes doctoral applications in the fields of:
Criminal law - particularly feminist perspectives, penology and sexual offences
Immigration law - particularly feminist perspectives, issues relating to children and asylum issues
Dr Fitzpatrick welcomes expressions of interest on PhD projects relating to: looked after children and/or care-leavers in the criminal justice system; desistance and resilience; the links between youth justice and child welfare; young offenders.
Professor Gillespie is happy to consider PhD proposals in the areas of Criminal Law; Sexual Offences; Cybercrime; Covert Policing; Criminal Justice (including Evidence).
I am particularly interested in PhD projects that make use of creative or co-produced methods, involve lived experience, or focus on areas such as fraud and financial crime, women, organised crime and economic harms.
Rachel would be interested in supervising PhD projects looking into aspects of children's rights and family law. Applicants interested in pursuing socio-legal studies or research projects with empirical elements are also welcome.
Laura is interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of International Diplomatic Law, International Human Rights Law and Public International Law.
Dr Mayfield is happy to supervise research degrees in land law, property law and in broader socio-legal or historical areas.
Noel is interested in supervising potential PhD students in any of the following areas: terrorism and counterterrorism law, security law, international law and human rights law. Please feel free to get in touch if you have an idea you would like to discuss.
Youth, Race, Gender, Theories of Punishment, Stigma as Penalty, Cross Institutional Exclusion, Modernity, Urban Cultures, Historical Methods
Professor Milman is happy to consider PhD proposals in the fields of Company Law, Partnership Law, Securities Law, Bankruptcy Law, Insolvency Law, European Commercial Law, International Business Law, Education Law, Fiscal Law, Legal History, the interface between Islamic law and western commercial law
Professor Ost is happy to supervise research degrees on medical law and bioethics, legal and social issues surrounding child abusive images and sexual grooming, child sexual exploitation and other areas related to her research interests.
I am interested in receiving proposals from potential PhD students in the field of crime, technology and security.
Dr Potter is interested in supervising PhD students looking at aspects of drug use, drug distribution (trafficking, dealing, social supply, drug production, cannabis cultivation) or links between drugs and crime.
He is also interested in supervising PhD students conducting work within the field of green criminology (illegal wildlife trade, environmental harm as crime, environmental harm as a cause of crime, environmental protest).
Professor Skogly welcomes applications in the broad fields of Public international law; International Human Rights Law; Economic, social and cultural rights; International human rights obligations; Extraterritorial human rights obligations; International institutional law
Current or recent topics covered in PhD supervision: The Right to Water as a Human Right. The Implementability of the Right to Water. Foreign Direct Investment and Human Rights WTO. Human Rights and the Right to Health in Thailand. The Right to Participation in Human Rights. Indigenous Peoples and International Law. Language rights of immigrant minorities. International law, internal conflict and the duty to protect.The right to development and poverty. Trafficing in women in international law and the United Arab Emirates. Economic variables and the right to social security. Rights of Women in Pakistan. Discrimination in the right to education - experience from a European setting
Dr Summers is happy to supervise projects in any field of international law, but particularly areas in the field of peoples' rights, the use of force and international institutional law.
Prof. Sweeney is available to supervise research in the fields of international and European human rights law; international refugee law; and transitional justice. Prof. Sweeney also has an interest in some aspects of the law of armed conflict (IHL) and international criminal law. Please enquire for further details.
Criminal law; gendered violence; homicide; sexual offences; gender and the law
UK public and administrative law. Mental health law. Systems theory and law - especially complexity theory and autopoiesis.
Professor Wheatley is happy to hear from potential PhD students with proposals in the field of international law, with a particular interest in democracy, human rights and the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples.
John is interested in supervising PhD projects in Corporate Insolvency Law, Company Law, and Corporate Governance Law.
Dr Xu is happy to supervise research in property law (broadly defined), especially those from a comparative perspective.