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Ross Coomber

Emeritus Prof Ross Coomber
BA (Hons); MSc; PhD, FAcSS

Professor of Criminology and Sociology
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
Part of
School of Law and Social Justice
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact

Ross.Coomber@liverpool.ac.uk

My rapid ethnography research blog looking at public spitting across 6 Asian countries in 2013 - observation and analysis on the go

Teaching

PhD Supervision

I am an experienced PhD supervisor (x9 to completion) and PhD External Examiner (x13) and I particularly welcome applications from prospective students under the following indicative areas (although please do feel free to pitch a topic to me): - Vulnerability and exploitation in drug markets - Vulnerability policing and Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) - Dark Net/Crypto drug markets (or other dark net trading) - Illicit drug markets (various aspects of - structures/nature of) - Illicit drug use (various aspects of) - The intersection of crime, law and and public health (in relation to drug use or supply) - Symbolic policing - Fear of crime - Sociology of fear - Cross-cultural public spitting - The use of steroids and other image and performance enhancing drugs (by either professionals or non-professionals)