Research course

Social Policy and Criminology

Institution
Open University · Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Qualifications
PhDMPhil

Entry requirements

The normal minimum entrance requirement is an upper second class honours degree or masters degree.

Months of entry

October

Course content

The Social Policy and Criminology discipline is recognised nationally and internationally for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research. A vibrant research culture, broadly drawing on critical constructivist and interdisciplinary approaches to Social Policy and Criminology is sustained through our commitment to producing outstanding scholarship and research.

Our research – recognised as being of national and international significance – catalyses and informs public dialogue and policy change on many issues in Social Policy and Criminology in the UK and internationally.

We have an international reputation for methodological innovation, with particular strengths in qualitative mixed-methods research, visual methods, biographical and life-story research, discourse analysis, historical methods and ethnography.

Many members of the discipline are actively involved in the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC), Innovation, Knowledge and Development (IKD) and OpenSpace. Research students are warmly encouraged to join these centres and to take an active part in our supportive and collegial research culture.

Qualification, course duration and attendance options

  • PhD
    full time
    48 months
    • Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
    part time
    96 months
    • Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
    • Distance learningis available for this qualification
  • MPhil
    full time
    48 months
    • Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
    part time
    72 months
    • Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
    • Distance learningis available for this qualification

Course contact details

Name
Graduate School
Email
research-degrees-office@open.ac.uk