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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
My capacity to take on new PhD supervision in 2025/26 is limited. I can consider projects relating directly to my research interests, specifically criminology of atrocity (war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity), and policing and democracy. Please contact me to check on the latest situation.
Andy joined the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer in 2006, and the School of Law in 2012. He previously held research posts with the Home Office and Cardiff University. He holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh and Cardiff University.
Andy has served in leadership roles in postgraduate teaching, external relations, and research, as Postgraduate Research Director in the School of Law, and has regularly acted as co-director for the cross-school and cross-disciplinary MSc programme in Global Crime, Justice and Security.
Andy has mentored several colleagues in early career research and lecturing roles, including BA Newton and ESRC Global Challenges Research post-doctoral fellows. He is an active PhD supervisor and has supervised 9 PhDs to completion in topics including policing, transitional justice, harms of borderisation, and domestic violence.
Andy's interests cover the criminology of atrocity crimes, and policing with a focus on governance and democracy.
He is currently focused on wartime detention camps in Herzegovina, atrocity and its aftermath in cinema, states' engagement with international criminal justice, and the pedagogy of atrocity criminology. With colleagues in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Netherlands, he wrote the chapter on criminology and atrocity crimes for the latest Oxford Handbook of Criminology.
His previous work on Bosnia and Herzegovina explored criminal justice reform as state-building and democratisation. Andy maintains his interest in democratic governance of police in research on Scotland with Dr Alistair Henry and Dr Ali Malik, and in relation to human rights with Ceren Mermutluoğlu.
Andy teaches on a number of MSc and undergraduate courses focusing on international dimensions of criminology.
Social Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), MAKING THE TRANSITION: INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION, STATE-BUILDING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, 1995-2005, Cardiff University
31 Oct 2003 → 1 Feb 2008
Award Date: 1 Jul 2008
Criminology, Master of Science, Cardiff University
1 Sept 2000 → 30 Aug 2001
Award Date: 1 Jul 2002
Modern History and Politics, Master of Arts, University of Edinburgh
1 Oct 1995 → 30 Jun 2000
Award Date: 1 Jul 2000
Project Reviewer, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (Fond za nauka Republike Srbije)
3 Oct 2022 → 3 Oct 2024
PhD Supervisor, Edinburgh Napier University
1 Oct 2022 → …
External Examiner (PhD), Stockholm University, Department of Criminology
29 Oct 2021
Membership of International Editorial Board for Journal, 'Kriminalističke Teme', University of Sarajevo
23 Feb 2021 → …
External Examiner, PhD, Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences
29 Jun 2020 → 29 Dec 2020
External Examiner (MSc/LLM), University of Leeds
1 Sept 2018 → 7 Jun 2022
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Andy Aydin-Aitchison (Speaker)
Activity: Other activity types › Other
Andy Aydin-Aitchison (Examiner)
Activity: Examination types › External Examiner or Assessor
Andy Aydin-Aitchison (Keynote/plenary speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Andy Aydin-Aitchison (Speaker)
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Andy Aydin-Aitchison (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Whitburn, S. & Aydin-Aitchison, A.
18/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Henry, A. & Aydin-Aitchison, A.
1/10/15 → 31/03/16
Project: Research
1/12/13 → 26/03/15
Project: Research
Other Competitive Uk Charity Sources
31/07/08 → 1/04/16
Project: Research
Aydin-Aitchison, A. (Creator), Aksamitowska, K. (Creator), Andaya, R. (Creator), Anosova, I. (Creator), Bernasol, J. (Creator), Bhadra, P. (Creator), Brandon, E. (Creator), Buljubašić, M. (Creator), Chakrabarty, I. (Creator), Christensen, M. J. (Creator), de León Agosto, L. (Creator), Dobrovolskis, M. (Creator), Emasealu, M. (Creator), Gërdeci, A. (Creator), Ghiasi, S. (Creator), Gómez Alcorta, E. (Creator), Hoffmann, T. (Creator), Higgins, N. (Creator), Hossain, M. P. (Creator), Hronum, C. (Creator), Jeiranashvili, N. (Creator), Jusufi, I. (Creator), Kirabira, T. (Creator), Lingaas, C. (Creator), Lohne, K. (Creator), Maguire, G. (Creator), Maljević, A. (Creator), Mancini, M. (Creator), Markevičiūtė, U. (Creator), Martinaitytė, L. (Creator), Matsiko, S. (Creator), Mejía, G. (Creator), Munivrana, M. (Creator), Dalsgaard Nielsen, T. A. (Creator), Oyewole, O. (Creator), Radmanović, J. (Creator), Ragaišytė, I. M. (Creator), Ristivojević, B. (Creator), Roksandić, S. (Creator), Samardžić, S. (Creator), Šestan, K. (Creator), Steponavičiūtė, R. (Creator), Stojanović, N. (Creator), Švedas, G. (Creator), Tamayo Gomez, C. (Creator), Vegh Weis, V. (Creator), Vosyliūtė, A. (Creator), Holá, B. (Creator), Rodrigues, F. (Creator) & Vasiliev, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 6 Nov 2023
DOI: 10.7488/ds/7536, https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8558 and one more link, https://justice-360.com/scoping-survey/ (show fewer)
Dataset
Aydin-Aitchison, A. (Creator), Brandon, E. (Creator), Buljubašić, M. (Creator), Dobrovolskis, M. (Researcher), Gërdeci, A. (Creator), Hoffmann, T. (Creator), Higgins, N. (Creator), Hossain, M. P. (Creator), Jeiranashvili, N. (Creator), Jusufi, I. (Researcher), Maguire, G. (Researcher), Maljević, A. (Researcher), Mancini, M. (Creator), Markevičiūtė, U. (Researcher), Martinaitytė, L. (Researcher), Matsiko, S. (Creator), Radmanović, J. (Researcher), Ragaišytė, I. M. (Researcher), Ristivojević, B. (Researcher), Samardžić, S. (Creator), Steponavičiūtė, R. (Researcher), Stojanović, N. (Researcher), Švedas, G. (Creator), Vosyliūtė, A. (Researcher), Christensen, M. J. (Creator), Holá, B. (Creator), Lohne, K. (Creator), Rodrigues, F. (Creator), Roksandić, S. (Creator), Vasiliev, S. (Creator), Kanka Ćudić, E. (Data Collector) & Kyriakidis, A. (Other), Justice 360, Jun 2023
https://justice-360.com/scoping-survey/
Dataset
21/03/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
24/03/16 → 1/04/16
2 Media contributions
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Fiona Mackay, Liz Bondi & Andy Aydin-Aitchison
27/10/11
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities