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Designing Postgraduate Curricula For Transdisciplinary Fields:
The case of security and crime science
Dr Hervé Borrion* and Prof Richard Wortley,
UCL Security Science DTC
Definitions
Transdisciplinary research
Crime Science
Security Science DTC
Aims
Framework
1st Year
Conclusion
Aim
Definitions
Security and Crime Science
“The application of scientific methods and the deployment of any scientific disciplines in the interest of crime prevention, crime reduction and crime detection.” (Tilley, 2005)
Crime scientists should be able to…
Characterize crime problems
Elicit requirements
Specify control principles and control measures
Implement measures
Evaluate them
And still be able to:
Integrate crime theories, human and situational factors,
as well as legal constraints and ethical risks in the
development, deployment, implementation and evaluation
phases.
Definitions
Typology of Transdisciplinary Research:
“Teams work using a shared conceptual framework, drawing together discipline-specific theories, concepts, and approaches to address a common problem”. (Rosenfield, 1992)
“Questions without a compelling disciplinary basis” (Lattuca, 2001)
Induction week: European Security Research Conference, Belgium
Centre for Doctoral Training
Security Science CDT
• Currently recruiting the 6th student cohort
• Between 10 and 25 students per year
• Scholarships from research councils and industry
• Pool of supervisors across UCL
• Multidisciplinary cohort: Anthropology, Laws, Political Science,
Criminology, Forensics, Electronic Engineering, Computer
Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture.
• Funded by EPSRC
Researcher should be able to…
Develop new knowledge, new techniques, new tools to
support the state of the art in crime science.
And still be able to:
Integrate crime theories, human and situational factors,
as well as legal constraints and ethical risks in their work
Solutions to actual problems
Application & Implication of their research
Broader research skills
Connection between different areas
Creativity / Multidisciplinary
Broadening their knowledge base
We could do better
Shared conceptual framework(problem-solving)
Aim
Aim
Aim
Foundation in Security and Crime Science 15 credits
Global Security Challenges 15
Risk and System Engineering 15
Principles of Information Security 15
Designing Research in Security Science 15 (*)
Quantitative Methods (Statistics) 15 *
Research Project 90 *
Ethics, Security and Research -
*discipline-specific
Taught components
Theory, theory, and theory…
Contextualization: Application & Implication of their research
Critical thinking: Broader Research Methods
Connection between different areas
Creativity / Multidisciplinary: Horizontal learning
Domain of Application v. discipline? Too broad? Researchers v. leaders?
Conclusion
Lattuca, L. 2001.Creating Interdisciplinarity: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching among College and University Faculty. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
Rosenfield, P. L. 1992. ‘‘The Potential of Transdisciplinary Research for Sustaining and Extending Linkages between the Health and Social Sciences.’’ Social Science &
Medicine 35 (11): 1343–57
Tilley, T., 2005. Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety, William Publish.
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