Dr Andy Aydın-Aitchison

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

PhD, MSc, MA (hons)

Office hours:

Monday 14:00-15:00 during teaching

Tel: +44 (0)131 651 4563

Email: Andy.Aydin-Aitchison@ed.ac.uk

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Andy has been teaching and researching in criminology at the University of Edinburgh since 2006, first in the School of Social and Political Science and the in the School of Law from 2012 onwards. He has also held research posts with the Home Office and Cardiff University. He holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh and Cardiff University covering Criminology, Politics and Modern History.

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 PhDs to completion in topics including policy making, policy transfer, community policing and domestic violence. Andy continues to welcome applicants for doctoral study and post-doctoral mentoring. 

Current Research Interests

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.