The support provided by your supervisory team will be vital to your student experience and scholarly advancement. You and your supervisors will have regular one-to-one meetings which will provide you with opportunities to develop your research topic and discuss your progress.
Career opportunities:
Studying for a PhD enables you to develop an area of specialism that will give you an edge whether you are planning to work in industry or to develop expertise to teach in academia.
Many of our research graduates go on to take up roles within academia whilst others pursue careers in areas such as the criminal justice sector, government, or civil service. Potential career paths include roles within organisations such as the Metropolitan Police, the probation or prison services, and local, national, or international government departments.
You could also work as a consultant within an organisation or open up your own business.
Within:
- Metropolitan Police
- criminal justice sector
- Government
- civil service
- probation or prison services
- local, national, or international government departments.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Police Interview Techniques
- Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Police Interviews
- Forensic Interviews
- Decision-Making in Investigations
- Ethnicity, Identity, and Policing
- Community Policing and Building Trust
- Policing Accountability and Ethics
- Public / Private Policing
- Management of Offenders by Police
- Cross-border cooperation: Exchange of data
- Policing Organised Crime
- Policing Fraud
- Policing Corruption
- Policing and the use of AI.
Admission requirements
Academic requirements
GPA: Upper Second Class
English requirements
- Duolingo English Test: 120
- TOEFL iBT: 86
- PTE Academic: 58
- IELTS: 6.5
Other requirements
General requirements:
- a good first degree (First Class or Upper Second Class), or equivalent qualification in a relevant field
- a Masters degree (MA, MSc, MBA or MRes) with Merit, or equivalent postgraduate or research experience.
Fees and funding
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in AUD.
- International: 30,228 AUD / year ≈ 16,000 GBP / year
- Domestic: 9,257 AUD / year ≈ 4,900 GBP / year
Part time: National – £2,450; International – £8,000
Living costs
London, United Kingdom: 2,148-4,075 AUD / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
