Completed PhD topics in Social Policy and Criminology include:

• Senior, James (2023). Non-Domestic Stalking: An exploration of the impact of policing interventions.
• Dean, Amy (2023). “Netflix and Chill”: Young People’s Understandings of Sex and Relationships.
• Hadfield, Sarah (2022). Childfree Young Women’s Experiences of Employment Insecurity and Financial Autonomy in England.
• Conway, Steve (2019). Understanding the Factors Contributing to the Absence of Street Gangs in Milton Keynes: A Negative Aetiology.
• Iliadou, Evgenia (2019). Border Harms and Everyday Violence. The Lived Experiences of Border Crossers in Lesvos Island, Greece.
• Hutton, Sarah K (2017). Organized Crime: An Ethnographic study of the monitoring and disrupting of those designated as high-level ‘organized criminals’ within the Metropolitan Police.
• Pearson, Danielle Kristina (2015). The Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations of Younger LGB Couples in Long-term Relationships.
• Plunkett, Nikola (2015). Heroes and Villains: Narratives of Public Sector Reform in the UK and Scotland.
• Chessum, Thierry Jacques Patrick (2015). Graphic Interrogation in Psychosocial Research: Deleuze AND Comics AND Middle-aged Men.
• McCulloch, Daniel Cameron (2015). Analysing understandings of 'rough sleeping': managing, becoming and being homeless.
• Baker, David (2014). Analysing the construction of accountability in cases of deaths after police contact.
• Owusu-Sekyere, Freda (2014). Critical linkages: Transnational living and prospects for private senders of money from Britain to Ghana and Nigeria.
• Earle, Rod (2014). Men in Prison: Con-viviality, Race and Culture.
• Gambles, Richenda (2011). Creating Hard-working, Responsible Parents: A New Labour Structure of Feeling?
• Philip, Georgia Clare (2010). 'Working at it': context, relationality and moral reasoning in narratives of fathering beyond couplehood.
• Parr, Sadie (2010). The Role of Intensive Family Support in the Governance of Anti-Social Behaviour.
• Chistyakova, Yulia (2010). Revisiting community policing in Ukraine: lessons for police reform.
• Rowe, Abigail (2009). Negotiating disempowerment : coping and social support in women's prisons.
• Wilkins, Andrew W. (2009). School choice and constructing the active citizen: Representations and negotiations of active, responsible parenting.
• Mehigan, James (2009). Problem-Solving and Partnership: A Study of the Role of Neighbourhood Action Groups in Neighbourhood Policing.
• Richards, Louise M. M. (2009). A Home of Their Own: A Case Study of an Ethnically Diverse Community and Placement of People Seeking Asylum.
• Mahony, Nick (2008). Spectacular political experiments: the constitution, mediation and performance of large-scale public participation exercises.

For all completed Social Policy and Criminology PhD theses, visit Open Research Online (ORO)

Awards for our Postgraduate Students

Congratulations to Dr. Steve Conway for being awarded the Betty Boothroyd 2019 award in the category of best Open University Social Science PhD.