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Name of the programme:
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The Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC)
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Level of the programme:
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PhD
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Length of the programme:
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3 years (6 semesters)
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ECTS Credits:
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180
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Type of the programme:
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Full
time
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Language of the
programme:
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English
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Place of the programme:
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University of Kent, University of Hamburg, ELTE University, Utrecht University as agreed in the mobility pathways
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Date of the
programme:
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2012 – 2015
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Organizational unit of Eötvös
Loránd University:
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Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences
Department of Criminology
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Short
description of the programme:
The nature and complexity of crime requires a committed, coherent interdisciplinary approach harnessing the most advanced international, cultural and critical insights of social sciences and law in a new doctoral training programme. The programme aims will meet six key needs in criminological doctoral research and training:
- Understanding and responding to new crimes
- Developing an international and intercultural outlook on crime and social harm
- Interdisciplinary criminology
- Intersectoral perspectives and expertise
- Citizenship
- Third-country capacity-building
The DCGC is a collaborative, three-year postgraduate research programme culminating in the submission of a doctoral thesis. Candidates will follow a main mobility path between two co-supervising universities, spending at least a year in each. The first semester will take place at Kent and at the end of the second semester a core compulsory training in specialist social-scientific and legal qualitative-research methods will take place at a Summer School in Utrecht. Each candidate will have a team of supervisors (minimum two) from the two partners at which the main periods of mobility and research will be undertaken. It is divided into three main strands: research, subject-specific training and transferable skills training (courses, Common Study Programme presentations, the option of a research internship at an associate member of the consortium).
Strengths
of the programme:
The Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC) is a structured PhD programme offered jointly by the University of Kent, Eötvös Lorand University (ELTE, Budapest, Hungary), the University of Hamburg (Germany), and Utrecht University (Netherlands). Applicants to the programme will be selected on the basis of high academic achievement, the fit of their research project with the DCGC research themes, and an assessment of their potential and commitment to complete high quality research. The Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC) will develop a politically engaged, international understanding and approach to crime and its control, and prepare high-level doctoral candidates to work in the widest range of employment arenas concerned with understanding, preventing and responding to crime in a way which takes account of the global and cultural context. European criminology has been based either within the social sciences or in law, DCGC combines their best aspects in structured, inter-disciplinary, and international doctoral training programme. DCGC offers the opportunity for international criminological research about the problems and issues faced by civil society and the public sector. The general research facilities in each institution are of a high quality, with the full range of library facilities, campus networks, technological support, research software, international databases, and dedicated office space and IT equipment available for candidates. The consortium has established formal links with a wide range of associated members. These international stakeholders will be involved with the consortium, in proposing and supporting individual research projects relevant to their field, providing internships and work placements appropriate to the individual and his/her project, and involvement in programme governance.
Career
opportunities:
The personal development and career planning embedded in the programme will ensure that doctoral graduates will have focused on their career objectives and be well-prepared for work in the academic world, research, high-level policy, as consultants, and in regional, national, international, government positions, NGOs, research institutes, and criminal justice agencies. The mobility and the overall intercultural perspectives required by the programme will ensure that doctoral graduates will bring considerable added value to any organisation in which they work – not only through the qualities, skills and competences, including those of global-critical citizenship, which they have developed but also their innovative interdisciplinary cross-cultural perspectives.
Requirements:
- 2nd cycle degree with the best or second best grade available in the national system in social sciences, law or related field (if applicants does not possess the required formal education, they will have to submit a dossier detailing relevant experiences and other attainments)
- non-native speakers of English must demonstrate proficiency in English at CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) level C1 (‘proficient user’)
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Tuition fee/semester
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EU/EEA Students
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non EEA Students
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6000€
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10.500€
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Other costs:
For this information applicants are kindly invited to visit www.dcgc.eu
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Way
of application:
Applicants to the programme will be selected on the basis of high academic achievement, the fit of their research project with the DCGC research themes, and an assessment of their potential and commitment to complete high quality research. Candidates will need to demonstrate their eligibility and academic achievement through the submission of relevant documentation, including:
- detailed transcripts with grades and degree classification
- a current CV
- a certificate of language ability
- a statement of purpose/motivation
- a research proposal including justification of the proposed mobility pathway
- the names of two referees who will attest to the applicant's academic standing and potential
All candidates will also be expected to indicate that they have understood, and are committed to, the integrated mobility requirement of the programme.
Scholarship opportunities:
Two different Erasmus Mundus Fellowships can be awarded to DCGC doctoral candidates.
Category A Fellowships can be awarded to non-European (i.e. not from the 27 EU member states, plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) doctoral candidates selected by the DCGC who are not residents nor have carried out their main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in one of these countries (from 1st March 2007 onward, in this round of applications to the DCGC).
Category B Fellowships can be awarded to European (i.e. from the 27 EU member states, plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein) doctoral candidates selected by the DCGC as well as to any doctoral candidates selected by EMJD consortia who do not fulfil the Category A criteria defined above.
Application deadline: The deadline for all applications in the Fellowship round is
16th January 2012, 23.59pm GMT. No applications for Fellowships will be accepted after that date.
The application is web-based and managed by the University of Kent admissions system. The steps of the application process are listed on the DCGC website (
http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/dcgc/public_html/apply_process.html).
All applicants will be notified by email whether they have been selected for interview or not within two days of
3rd February 2012.
The interview will take place on
8th and 9th February 2012 (UK time zone). Candidates will need to ensure their availability for a skype or equivalent interview on this day.
After these interviews, successful applicants and reserve applicants will be notified and asked to confirm that they are willing to accept a place on the DCGC programme. At the same time applicants placed on the reserve list will be notified and asked to confirm that they are willing to remain on the reserve list.
On
28th February 2012 the main and reserve lists of candidates submitted to EACEA for approval.
Further
information: www.dcgc.eu
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Contact information
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Programme
co-ordinator:
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Dr. Andrea Borbíró
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E-mail
address:
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borbiro@ajk.elte.hu
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Student advisory
service
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Name
of the contact person:
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Dr. Dávid Vig
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E-mail
address:
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Vigdavid@gmail.com
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Postal
address:
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1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3. Budapest, Hungary
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Telephone
no.:
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(+36)
1 411 6521
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