Three White Rose PhD Studentships 

Responding to Global Challenges of Crime and Insecurity – Studentship Network

The Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York are seeking to fill three PhD studentships as part of the White Rose Network, entitled ‘Responding to Global Challenges of Crime and Insecurity’. Each studentship will be based in one of the contributing institutions and benefit from co-supervision from a different institution and participation within a network of scholars.

Available from 1 October 2010.

Closing date for applications is 19 March 2010.


Project 1: Security, diversity and locality: Community perceptions of crime, disorder and terror within everyday urbanism

Supervisor: Dr Rowland Atkinson (University of York) Tel: 0113 343 8260 - E-Mail [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Co-Supervisor: Professor Adam Crawford (University of Leeds)


Further information is available at: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/degrees/whiterose.htm

Project 2: Being Feared: Micro-Dynamics of Fear and Insecurity in Global City Spaces - University of Leeds

Supervisor: Professor Susanne Karstedt (University of Leeds) Tel: 0113 343 8260 - E-Mail [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Co-Supervisor: Dr Stephen Farrall (University of Sheffield)



Further information is available at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO057/white-rose-research-studentships/

or http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rds/postgraduate_scholarships/wrs-info

Project 3: Men and Violence: contextualising dangerousness in cultural transformations - University of Sheffield
Supervisor: Dr Maggie Wykes (University of Sheffield) Tel: 0114 222 6823; E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Co-supervisor: Dr Simon Winlow (University of York)

Further information is available at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/projects/wykes.html

Further details on each project are available from the host institutions. Applicants may submit more than one application across the network – via the appropriate host institutions - but should specify their first choice project and host institution.