An interdisciplinary forum for supporting PhD students
The Centre hosts the Mannheim Doctoral Working Group, which is the LSE’s rendez-vous for doctoral-level criminological research. The MDWG provides a supportive forum wherein students receive interdisciplinary feedback on their research.
Participation in the Working Group is open to students across the School at any stage of criminological familiarity and expertise. The sole requirements comprise scholarly open-mindedness and enthusiasm to share in the LSE’s vibrant criminological community. Students from any department across the School are encouraged to notify Johann Koehler of their willingness to join.
MDWG 2025/26
Emma Louise Blondes (Social Policy): Investigating organised crime
Claudia Rodriguez-Castellanos (International Relations): Coproduced governance in wartime Colombia: Civilian, state, and rebel interactions
Pascual Cortés (Law): ‘We would have remained the same’: On the Chilean Carabineros’ constitutional embeddedness
Morgan Olive-Carmellini (Geography and Environment): Police as 'the Whiteness of the nation’: Racialised identity politics in the Military Police of São Paulo and the French National Police
MDWG 2024/25
Talita Ferrantelli (Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method): The zetetics of rape: Gathering evidence of sexual consent
Dimitri Moragiorgas (Law): The epistemology of online echo chambers
Deborah Fromm (Geography & Environment): Public security, private interests: Insuring urban violence risks in contemporary Brazil
Pascual Cortés (Law): Cultivating Sacrifice, Forging the Nation-State: the police ‘military character’ within the Chilean Carabineros
Emma Louise Blondes (Social Policy): An ethnography of organised crime in France
Claudia Rodríguez-Castellanos (International Development): Communitarian justice: Legacies of rebel governance in post-Accord Colombia
MDWG 2023/2024
Valeria Ruiz (Law): Unconstitutional punishment and political authority: The Colombian case
MDWG 2022/2023
David Eichert (International Relations): (Re)constructing an international crime: Interpreting sexual victimhood in the Rohingya genocide and beyond
Olivia Nantermoz (International Relations): Imagining international justice – A history of the penal humanitarian present
Pupul Prasad (Social Policy): Facilitators and barriers to restorative juvenile justice in India
Peter Ward-Griffin (Economics): Preferential justice and police discrimination
MDWG 2021/2022
Sarah Jewett (Government): Categorising processes and mechanisms of perpetration in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Jo Bluen (International Relations): Hauntings of Nuremberg: The politics and epistemologies of (anti-)impunity in international criminal law
MDWG 2020/2021
Sarah Jewett (Government): Remorse and Perpetrators in International Criminal Law
David Eichert (International Relations): Hashtagging International Law: Digital Diplomacy, Global Justice, and the International Criminal Court on Twitter
Venera Cocaj (European Institute): Silence breakers and wartime sexual violence: Affiliation and disaffiliation in the public sphere in Kosovo
Miranda Bevan (Social Policy): The ‘pains’ of police custody for children
Jemima Ackah-Arthur (International Relations): The failure of partisan alignment: State responses to terror incidents in Nigeria
Nancy Breton (Methodology): Are our best intentions good enough? A critique of international ‘feminist’ policy discourses and their limitations on transformative empowerment efforts in the global South
Pupul Prasad (Social Policy): The reform agenda in juvenile justice and the place of restorative justice in it
Thiago Oliveira (Methodology): Socialization through violence: Exposure to neighborhood and police violence and the development of legal legitimacy among adolescents in São Paolo
MDWG 2019/2020
Lucy Bryant (Social Policy): Policing and the regulation of live music
Olivia Nantermoz (International Relations): Conceptualizing penal humanitarianism: Imaginary and narratives of international justice-making
Mattia Pinto (Law): Discursive alignments of trafficking, rights and crime control
Thiago Oliveira (Methodology): Mind the gap between law and enforcement: Cynicism toward legal institutions in São Paolo neighborhoods
