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The Department of Social Policy and Criminology is recognised nationally and internationally for its distinctive approach to teaching and research. A vibrant research culture, broadly drawing on critical constructivist approaches, is sustained through our commitment to producing scholarship and research publications of national and international significance that can act as a catalyst for and inform public dialogue on critical issues in social policy and criminology, from the global to the local and everyday. The interdisciplinary character of the department's research underpins the involvement of most of the staff's research in the faculty's Sociology (UoA 43) submission in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Many members of the department are actively involved in the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) (where we lead the research programmes of Families and Relationships, and Publics), and the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR). Research students are also encouraged to join these centres and to take an active part in the department’s supportive and collegial research culture.
Key facts
- A thriving interdisciplinary environment.
- Wide range of research interests.
- PhD students are encouraged to take part in one of our research centres (ICCCR or CCIG).
Further information
If you have an enquiry specific to this research area please contact:
- Name:
- Dr Deborah Talbot
- Email:
- d.h.talbot@open.ac.uk
- Phone:
For general enquiries please contact the Research Degrees Team via the link under 'Your questions' further down the page.
Publications
Research publications by Open University staff are available through Open Research Online (ORO), the university's repository of research publications and other research outputs. ORO can be searched or browsed by staff name or subject.
The following list, generated from ORO, provides a flavour of the most recently published work in Social Policy and Criminology:
- Hancock, Lynn and Mooney, Gerry (2012). ‘Welfare ghettos’ and the ‘broken society’: territorial stigmatisation in the contemporary UK. Housing, Theory and Society (In press).
- Drake, Deborah and Gunn, Ben (2012). Convict criminology. In: McLaughlin, Eugene and Muncie, John eds. The Sage Dictionary of Criminology (3rd ed.). London: Sage, (In press).
- Mooney, Gerry; Neal, Sarah and Hancock, Lynn (2012). Crisis social policy and the resilience of the concept of community. Critical Social Policy, 32(3), (in press).
- Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2012). Caring after death: issues of embodiment and relationality. In: Rogers, Chrissie and Weller, Susie eds. Critical Approaches to Care: Understanding Caring Relations, Identities and Cultures. Relationships and resources. London: Routledge, (In Press).
- Mooney, Gerry and Scott, Gill (2012). Devolution, social justice and social policy: the Scottish context. In: Mooney, Gerry and Scott, Gill eds. Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland. Bristol: Policy Press, (In press).
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