Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Stefan Machura welcomes PhD students on a range of topics, especially those who would like to conduct empirical studies and international comparisons on the following fields:• criminal and other courts• popular legal culture/crime and the media• legal politics/penal politics• lay and professional judges• people's experience with legal authority, their trust and confidence as well as the legitimacy of the institutions• staff experience in organizations• legal profession and legal education• traffic offenses• Welsh language/nationalism and Wales as diverse society. He also welcomes PhD students interested in sociological and criminological theory and can support quantitative and qualitative research projects.