Studentship Networks

The challenge of security and crime in the context of globalisation constitutes an intellectual meeting place where a variety of disciplinary approaches coalesce.  The aim is to develop a new breed of research students able to combine multi-disciplinary insights in ways that forge new conceptual understandings and methodologies.  The collaborators have research expertise that spreads across a number of disciplines - law, criminology, sociology and urban studies - and backgrounds in different social research approaches.  Collectively, the team will expose students to a range of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies.  This network was supported with the aspiration that it will strengthen links with the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) and hence position the White Rose universities well.  The network includes the following projects:

Security, Diversity and Locality: Community perceptions of crime disorder and terror within everyday urbanism

Being Feared: Micro-dynamics of fear and insecurity in global city spaces

Men and Violence: contextualising dangerousness in global cultural transformations