Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski: To what extent does education change the self-perception and identity of people in prison?

Neil Anns: The policing of child criminal exploitation​.

Angela Charles: Black Women's experieices in Prison through an intersectional lens.

Angela Collins: Women, Crime and Poverty in the early 21st Century.

Danny Conway: Death and dying in the West of Ireland: Dealing with grief and loss.

Linda de Chenu: Transnational policy making and the rise of national suicide prevention policies.

Amy Dean: "Real or Not Real"? Young people's understandings of pleasure, safe sex and healthy relationships.

Sarah Hadfield: Young women, employment insecurity and financial autonomy in England.

Gabi Kent Transformation Tales: An exploration of political prisoner perspectives on higher education whilst in prison as a transformation tool in conflict related contexts.

Janice Knox-Goba: Sexual Violence against women – Attitudes and Perceptions of Sierra Leoneans.

Rochelle Mallet: How do gender and sex norms inform the interactions of children in nursery as they interact with their peers and the early years practitioners who are looking after them?

Alois Nyanhete: The role of international mobile remittances in promoting financial inclusion and development: A Zimbabwean case study.

James Senior: Preventing Murder In Slow motion: The Effectiveness of Police Interventions In Cases of Serial Stalkers.

Pilgrim Tucker: How do the concepts of social harm, and structural and institutional violence help us understand the impacts of housing related policy in relation to Grenfell?

Margret Westergreen-Thorne: The role of power in either facilitating or hindering Open University Higher Education provision in prisons in England and Wales.

Completed PhD topics in Social Policy and Criminology include:

Exploring everyday violence and harm in the lives of irregularised migrants.

Understanding the Factors Contributing to the Absence of Gangs in Milton Keynes.

The trials, tribulations and celebrations of long-term, same-sex partner relationships.

Graphic Interrogation in Psychosocial Research: Deleuze AND Comics AND Middle-aged Men.

Organised Crime: An Ethnographic study, of the monitoring and disrupting of those designated as high-level ‘organised criminals’ within the Metropolitan Police.

Analysing understandings of 'rough sleeping': managing, becoming and being homeless.

The Globalization of Education Policy: the Diffusion of Lifelong Learning Models and the Role of International Organizations in Non-OECD Countries.

Analysing the construction of accountability in cases of death after police contact.

Critical Linkages: transnational living and prospects for private senders of money from Britain to Ghana and Nigeria.

Policy, Popular Culture and Personal Experiences - Searching for a Structure of Feeling Relating to Parenting.

Revisiting Community Policing in Ukraine: Lessons for Police Reform.

Negotiating Disempowerment: Social support and coping in women's prisons.

School Choice and Constructing the Active Citizen: Representations and negotiations of active, responsible parenting.

Problem-Solving and Partnership: A study of the role of Neighbourhood Action Groups in neighbourhood policing.

Spectacular Political Experiments: The constitution, mediation and performance of public participation.

A Home of Their Own: A case study of an ethnically diverse community placement of people seeking asylum.

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.