Postgraduate Studies

Courses

Courses in Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies

Future Students obtain information for the 2008 Postgraduate Programs from here

Download the 2008 Postgraduate Studies Guides as PDF file.

Prospective students may also request a hardcopy of ths guide by completing the form at the bottom of the page.

Postgraduate Student Representative

At the commencement of each year the Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee, requests Mens Rea (the Postgraduate Criminology Society) nominate representatives to sit on their committee to report on student issues or to provide the committee with responses to research student issues.

In 2008 the student representative are:
Rhys Thompson (rhyst@unimelb.edu.au) and
Jessica Low (j.low7@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au)

Master of Criminology Seminars

Once a month on a Thursday prior to the Mens Rea Pub Night, MCrim students meet in the Staff Common Room, Level 4, 234 Queensberry Street, to discuss issues of relevance to them.

Meeting 1 - 3 April: To find out more about the School of Political Science, Criminology & Sociology, and to talk about issues relating to students' studies. A brief presentation on research centres in the School, including some of the research projects currently being conducted by research and academic staff. Monica Perez, who was an MCrim student in 2006 spoke about issues relating to overseas students. Photographs from the meeting.

Meeting 2 - 1 May: Dr. Julie Evans, Lecturer in Criminology, and PhD Candidates Simone Gristwood and Claire Spivakovksy will present on their experiences conducting research on Indigenous Issues.

Julie is the author of Edward Eyre, race and colonial governance (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2005); Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples and Political Rights in British Settlements, 1830-1910, [with Patricia Grimshaw, David Philips and Shurlee Swain], (Manchester: Manchester University Press: 2003); and Writing Colonial Histories: Comparative Perspectives [contributing editor, with Tracey Banivanua Mar] (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing: 2002).

Meeting 2 - 29 May: To be advised

Current Postgraduate Students

• Courseworks
• Dates for the University of Melbourne
• Facilities and resources for Criminology postgraduates (including request for desk space in the Criminology Department)
• Gradflash - Weekly Newsletter from SGS
• Help contacts for students
• Human Research Ethics (guidelines and dates)
• International students
• Library resources for Criminology
• Library resources for Socio-Legal Studies
• Mens Rea: The Postgraduate Criminology Society
• School of Graduate Studies (PhD administration)
• Scholarships
• Supervisors: an overview of academic staff research interests

More information?

Complete course and application information is available on this website, however we'd be delighted to post you our Guide to Postgraduate Criminology, Forensic Psychology and Socio-Legal Studies - just complete our quick online form. Alternatively, contact us over the phone if you have questions: 8344 9441 or direct questions to the Postgraduate Coordinator using the form below.