PhD Graduates in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
It gives us great pleasure to announce the list of this year’s PhD successes within the department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology;
- Dr Amina Elmi - The Gifford Report Revisited Racism in Employment: A Case Study of Liverpool
- Dr Laura Harris - Making Art Work: The Socio-Material Production of an Exhibition at Bluecoat, Liverpool’s Centre for the Contemporary Arts
- Dr Anna Hopkins - From reporting to retracting in Domestic Violence: Mapping victim decision-making as they journey through the Criminal Justice Process
- Dr Katie Hunter - Institutionalised Criminalisation: Black and Minority Ethnic Children and Looked After Children in the Youth Justice System in England and Wales
- Dr Jayne Price - Exploring Pathways and Transitions Between the Juvenile Secure Estate and Young Adult/Adult Estate
- Dr Eleni Theodoropoulou - Practices of Care in the Recovery Assemblage: an Empirical Study of Drug Services in Liverpool and Athens
- Dr Leona Vaughn - Doing Risk: Practitioner Interpretations of Risk of Childhood Radicalisation and the Implementation of the UK Government Prevent Duty
- Dr Yayun Wang - The Reinforcement and Reproduction of Gender Stereotypes in High Schools in Mainland China
My congratulations to all our graduating Postgraduate Research Students in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology this year.
The variety of projects you have each completed reflect the Department’s overlapping interests in sociology, social policy and criminology, including studies of: drug services and practices of recovery in Liverpool and Athens; the reproduction of gender stereotypes in high schools in mainland China; a critical examination of a contemporary urban arts centre; reflections on racism and employment in Liverpool thirty years after the publication of the Gifford Report; practitioner interpretations of children’s vulnerability to ‘radicalisation’ and the implementation of the PREVENT strategy in the UK; the experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic children and looked after children in the Youth Justice System in England and Wales; an analysis of domestic abuse victims' retraction statements; and pathways between juvenile and adult penal incarceration.
The expertise you are graduating with demonstrates the accumulation of a significant amount of complex intellectual work and your projects illustrate a range of critically engaged social science that is theoretically and methodologically informed, invested in exploring personal troubles as public issues, and each tackle matters of social justice. These are indeed some of the key principles of our Department.
Completing doctoral study is an incredibly challenging task and, as a Department, we are immensely proud of what you have each achieved. This year, I am also conscious that some of you will have submitted and completed your PhD under the additional pressures and restrictions brought on by COVID-19 which also deserves recognition.
Finally, as a personal note, it has genuinely been a privilege getting to know you over the years and I’m delighted you are each now graduating with your PhDs. As you each move on to other things, I hope you look back on your time studying in the Department fondly. Congratulations on your success!
Dr Ross McGarry (Director of Postgraduate Research, Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology)
“Congratulations from your supervisors and all the staff in the School of Law and Social Justice. We are all very proud of you. Wishing you the very best of luck for the future and please keep in touch.”
Debra Morris, Dean of the School of Law and Social Justice