Our PhD programmes attract the brightest and best students,
encouraging them to develop their expertise and make a contribution by
producing research that will have a genuine impact on society and transform lives.
Alumna Lady Edwina Grosvenor has supported the
establishment of a PhD studentship for a student working on intergenerational
trauma, imprisonment and parenting. She and student Sophie Mitchell, who has
been awarded this prestigious award, explain the impact it has made:
“I studied Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria and have gone
on to have a long career in the prison service. Funding a PhD studentship is my
way of giving back and saying thank you, by helping someone who might not have
had the opportunity otherwise. I like to think that through this I am inspiring
others in the area of prison and prison reform.”
Lady
Edwina Grosvenor
“Receiving the PhD Studentship has been a great opportunity for
me. Without it, it would have been very difficult for me financially to
undertake a PhD and thanks to support from Lady Edwina Grosvenor I have been
able to gain new skills and experience in an area I am extremely passionate
about.
Sophie Mitchell, Student Recipient
Lady Edwina and I share an interest in prison reform and my work is focused on intergenerational trauma, imprisonment and parenting. I had worked with women on probation in the past and taking on the PhD has given me a valuable opportunity to step back and consider the reasons why some of the women I was working with were in the situation they were in. My ambition is that my work will eventually help to bring about better outcomes for women.”
