Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Imprisonment
- Criminological Psychology
- Penal Reform
- Reducing Reoffending
- Desistance
- Cybercrime
Public outreach & key achievements
Winner Queen’s University Belfast Supervisory Excellence Award 2018
Nominated for Queen’s University Belfast Supervisory Excellence Award 2016
Nominated for Queen’s University Belfast Supervisory Excellence Award 2015
Research students
PhD area | Behind Closed Doors: A Study of Cell-sharing and Coping in Prison. |
Name | Aimee Muirhead |
Years of study | 2015-2019 |
Country | UK |
PhD area | Keira Flanagan |
Name | The Potential Effects of Educational and Vocational Programmes on the Desistance Process in Imprisoned Young People |
Years of study | 2015-2021 (Part-time) |
Country | Ireland |
PhD area | Effects of Prison Work in the Irish Prison Service |
Name | Sinead Meade |
Years of study | 2015-2021 (Part-time) |
Country | Ireland |
PhD area | Doing Desistance in Divided Neighbourhoods: The Role of Conflict Affected Neighbourhoods |
Name | Shane Bell |
Years of study | 2015-2019 |
Country | UK |
PhD area | A cross-national study of WhatsApp users in Oman: Motivations for self-disclosure and risk of blackmail |
Name | Abdullah Al Habsi |
Years of study | 20 |
PhD area | The Detection and Prevention of Inappropriate and Criminal Behaviour in Social Media |
Name | Mark Williams |
Years of study | 2016-2020 |
Country | UK |
Alumni: Where are they now
PhD area | Police Response and Understanding of Incidents of Domestic Abuse Involvement Children and Young People. |
Name | Annemarie Millar |
Years of study | 2014-2018 |
Country | UK |
Current Position | Queen’s University Belfast, Research Fellow. |
PhD area | The Impact of State Intervention on the Work of Community-Based Restorative Justice Projects in Northern Ireland |
Name | Lauren Hogg |
Years of study | 2013-2017 |
Country | UK |
Current Position | Queen’s University Belfast, Teaching Assistant. |
PhD area | Initiations and Transitions into Injecting Drug Use and Heroin Use. |
Name | Julie Harris PhD |
Years of study | 2009-2017 |
Country | UK |
Current Position | University of Ulster, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice. |
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- Mitchell Institute