Level 8 Core

Level 8

Programme Structure

Applicants possessing an appropriate and relevant Masters degree (normally an MSc) may enter the programme at Doctoral level. Examples of appropriate Masters degree include: MSc Policing and Criminal Investigation, MSc Criminal Psychology and Criminal Justice, MA Criminal Justice, MSc Forensic and Investigative Psychology.
Students are also expected to demonstrate a significant career of service within Policing, and/or Criminal Justice professions.

Applicants possessing an appropriate and relevant Masters degree (normally an MSc) may enter the programme at Doctoral level. Examples of appropriate Masters degree include: MSc Policing and Criminal Investigation, MSc Criminal Psychology and Criminal Justice, MA Criminal Justice, MSc Forensic and Investigative Psychology.
Students are also expected to demonstrate a significant career of service within Policing, and/or Criminal Justice professions.
  Offerings: All

The candidates will be expected to be interviewed to assess their suitability for the programme.

The candidates will be expected to be interviewed to assess their suitability for the programme. Offerings: All

Critically reflect on personal, work-based, theoretical and research practice experiences that contribute to the creation of new knowledge

Make informed judgements on complex issues within an area of policing and/or criminal justice.

Display a critical understanding of a diverse range of complex and specialised research knowledge and skills through the development of a research proposal that demonstrate a) the potential for the creation of new knowledge at the forefront of their academic discipline or their area of professional practice b) the use of appropriate techniques/methodologies in their research.

Demonstrate a detailed understanding of a range of research methods and their philosophical bases, including non-dominant perspectives, applicable to policing studies and criminal justice studies.

Conceptualise, design, and implement a project for the generation of new knowledge, applications or understanding at the forefront of policing/criminal justice or area of relevant professional practice, and to adjust the project design in the light of unforeseen problems.

Demonstrate awareness and appreciation of diversity and difference in research and evidence commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in their research project.

Demonstrate the qualities and transferable skills ability to exercise personal responsibility, show autonomous evidence-based decision-making and be adaptable in unpredictable and complex situations.

Provide implications for the further development of their specific professional practice in relation to their own work, its context, and the form future development would take, including how to measure the impact of innovative solutions and how to engage with stakeholders and users of research to extend influence and impact of research within and beyond academia.

Present final thesis clearly and concisely at a level that aligns to the Institution's Professional Doctoral regulations

Demonstrate the creation and interpretation of new knowledge of a quality to satisfy peer review, extend the forefront of policing studies and/or criminal justice studies, and merit publication.

Collect, record, and interpret qualitative and/or quantitative data and demonstrate advanced academic
enquiry.


Understand ethical issues arising from undertaking research within institutional settings and provide solutions to how these might be addressed.

Recognise and describe problems relevant to an area of policing and/or criminal justice and propose innovative solutions with the potential to create new knowledge.

Display a systematic acquisition, understanding and critical analysis of a diverse and substantial body of knowledge (including international and non-academic) which is at the forefront of policing studies and/or criminal justice or their area of related professional practice. 

Communicate their ideas and conclusions clearly and effectively to specialist and non-specialist general audiences, in a range of different communication means, e.g., face-to-face, interaction using interactive technologies, and/or textual and visual media.

Apply and develop appropriate techniques/methods in research and scholarship, including research methodology, IT literacy, and competency in using information and digital technology. 

Course Catalogue

Doctor of Policing and Criminal Justice - 36824 - Doc