项目介绍

2021年8月11日

Overview

The department of security and crime sciences is organised into five centres of excellence:

• Geographical Analysis
• The Designing Out Crime Group
• The Crime Policy and Evaluation Group
• Terrorism and Organised Crime
• Forensic Science

Staff and students work within and across these groups and across UCL and the wider research community, including active international collaborations.

Research areas

The department has five main research groups:

• Counter-terrorism: situational prevention of terrorism; technology for counter-terrorism; transferable training between crime and terrorism
• Crime mapping: innovation in crime mapping methods; prospective crime mapping
• Crime policy analysis and evaluation: evaluation of crime prevention schemes; knowledge transfer
• Designing out crime: role of design in crime prevention; environmental design; crime risk and administrative procedure design
• Forensic sciences: forensic science reconstruction; interpretation of evidence; trace evidence dynamics (including DNA, residues/particulates, environmental evidence etc.).

UCL Security & Crime Science (SCS) hosts the £17million UCL Security Science Doctoral Research Training Centre (UCL SECReT), an international centre for PhD training in security and crime science. We offer an integrated PhD programme for students wishing to pursue multi-disciplinary security or crime-related research degrees. We expect their research to be interdisciplinary and to involve some ‘hard science’ element.

Our research is underpinned by a methodology combining science and engineering expertise (S&T) with expertise from wider disciplines including the social sciences. We see four research ‘domains’ which can interact:

• Science and technology innovation: to create the next generation of security technologies
• People factors: understanding and incorporating human factors (via behavioural science, decision-making techniques, etc.) into the development of security solutions
• Process factors: enhancing security processes by increasing our understanding of the operational processes of activities, organisations or infrastructures under threat
• Policy: contributing to the development of government policy through research findings.

More information can be found on the department website: Security and Crime Science MPhil/PhD

About this degree

Additional costs

For more information on additional costs for prospective students please go to our estimated cost of essential expenditure at Accommodation and living costs.

Accessibility

Details of the accessibility of UCL buildings can be obtained from AccessAble accessable.co.uk. Further information can also be obtained from the UCL Student Support & Wellbeing team.

Funding

Scholarships relevant to this department are displayed below.

CSC-UCL Joint Research Scholarship

Value:Fees, maintenance and travel (Duration of programme)Eligibility:OverseasCriteria:Based on academic merit

For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding website.

Careers

Graduates from our research programmes go on to research careers and to lecturing posts in academic institutions. Others have taken up policy-related positions in the public and private security sectors.

Employability

UCL Security & Crime Science was one of a handful of departments nationwide to receive a rating of 100% for research impact in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). We are the leading trainer of crime analysts in the UK, having trained over 1,000 police and security analysts in the past ten years. Our students are often practitioners themselves, some holding senior positions. Our programmes are recognised by employers when considering career progression. The fact that our programmes have been endorsed by key advisory organisations (such as the Metropolitan Police Academy) and the fact that they are oriented towards practical approaches to tackling crime mean that they are recognised by recruiters.

Networking

UCL SCS is widely recognized for its knowledge transfer activities, and the impact that its research has had on real-world crime problems. Consequently we have long-established links with police forces, policy makers at all levels, academic research centres of excellence and security organisations from  both the UK and further afield. An annual seminar series (25 seminars) brings further opportunities to network with key figures in the field. At our annual industry day in December we invite a range of organisations to meet our current students.

Why study this degree at UCL?

The UCL Department of Security and Crime Science is devoted specifically to reducing crime through teaching, research, public policy analysis and by the dissemination of evidence-based information on crime reduction. Our mission is to change crime policy and practice.

Security and Crime Science is a multi-disciplinary subject, drawing on expertise in psychology, social science, statistics, mathematics, architecture, forensic sciences, design, geography and computing. This is reflected in our PhD students, who come from a variety of backgrounds, making the department an interesting and stimulating environment in which to study.

Department: Security & Crime Science

Application and next steps

Applications

Students are advised to apply as early as possible due to competition for places. Those applying for scholarship funding (particularly overseas applicants) should take note of application deadlines.

This programme requires two references. Further information regarding references can be found in our How to apply section.

Application deadlines

All applicants30 July 2021

Deadlines and start dates are usually dictated by funding arrangements so check with the department or academic unit to see if you need to consider these in your application preparation. In most cases you should identify and contact potential supervisors before making your application. For more information see our How to apply page and ensure you visit our website.

For more information see our Applications page.

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