🎉 Congratulations to Mr Alex @batesmith.bsky.social and his co-author Kieran McEvoy, who have won the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article of the Year Prize for their article ‘"Closeted" cause lawyering in authoritarian Cambodia'!
🌟Read more about this important article👇
tinyurl.com/t9bbryfk
My dear friend Paige Harden and I both have new books out, and both are about crime & punishment — but from different (though still evidence-based) perspectives.
📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣
The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods.
Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.
As an Irish arsenal fan, my stress levels are off the scale
Photo of lots of snowdrops
Remembering Dunblane and all those bereaved and affected, on the 30th anniversary of a horrific tragedy.
Do you live in the UK and have you ever experienced sextortion? We are trying to improve investigation quality and support for victim-survivors. Please consider filling out our anonymous survey to share your experiences. Link here: uclan.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Please RT
Working with partners to develop new and responsive youth interventions is central to our research centre @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @cebys.bsky.social
Come help us help youth services to reduce violence and exploitation:
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Substance Use Patterns from Late Childhood to Mid-Adolescence: Updates on the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study: https://osf.io/eh8ba
That's a beauty 😍. I might steal it for my data viz class.
The integration of Palantir into UK data infrastructure, across all arms of government (including the CJS) is very worrying.
New fully funded PhD based at @dundee.ac.uk , supervised by Dr Harry Hebert, Prof Lesley Colvin and myself, to investigate Opioid, Gabapentinoid and Antidepressant co‑prescribing. Apply here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... or get in touch if you would like to find out more!
New PhD studentship opportunity! Research and write the history of Release, supervised by me and @alexmold.bsky.social! bloomsbury.ac.uk/drugs-civil-...
🔍 We’re looking for a Research Officer to support the scientific foundation, development, and coordination of our study.
💷 £35,000–£40,000
📅 Closing: 8 March 2026
jobs.theguardian.com/job/10032147...
#Hiring #Research #Jobs #Careers #HealthResearch
Lectureship: Quantitative Criminology (Please share)
Cardiff University
Deadline 11 March 2026
Details: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
#Criminology #Quantitative #AcademicChat #PhDChat #JobFairy #Wales #Cymru
This is not great news. Northern Ireland, the only jurisdiction where deaths are increasing, while declining everywhere else
Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but not to her - the prize was awarded to her (male) supervisor. #CelebratingWomen
Just landed on my desk-literally! This is class, from my most excellent PhD student, @journey2aphd.bsky.social : coaching and mentoring in the context of criminal justice @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Fascinating piece by @whatareyou0n.bsky.social on fear, fun, (lack of) alcohol & generational change in nightlife, with brief comment from my students.
open.substack.com/pub/whatarey...
🚨New publication! The final piece of my PhD was to translate the earlier theoretical work into a free sample size calculator for designing partially clustered trials. Really happy to now see this out there to help researchers plan high quality trials.
Paper is linked below ⬇️
Calculator is here:
Why probation officers quit - or stick it out
New research by @Nicola Carr, Harry Annison, Lol Burke Matt Millings & Gwen Robinson looks at the complex reasons why people leave or stay working in the probation service
www.russellwebster.com/why-probatio...
Palantir is using medical records to help ICE target its victims in the US. And Wes Streeting is pitch-rolling for Farage to do the same in the UK.
Crime statistics are awesome 🤣
If you are interested in all things ✨causal inference✨, please join our multidisciplinary Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG). We host monthly seminars featuring speakers with various academic backgrounds and research interests.
Links below.
cc @clscohorts.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social
💥open access to :
- various full scale articles
-short articles on Gaza (AI, ecocide and ICJ)
-opinion pieces on gender disorder in Iran and Refugees in Turkey
-interviews with Ruth Jamieson and Maryna Shevstova
-in memoriam of Vincenzo Ruggiero
-Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre
The government's policy to halve VAWG in a decade will use a combined measure of the prevalence of domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking in the last year, measured by the Crime Survey for England and Wales, including female and male victims. Baseline year to March 2024.
The items also don't mention criminals, just if "someone", asked you to sell drugs, move or hide drugs. If you smoke weed, it is likely that you have been asked to sell some, bring some to a party (move), or hide some for a mate. Nothing in these items specifically captures criminal exploitation.
Some stellar contributions to the annual Irish Probation Journal 2025.
A delight to work with colleagues on this review of what it actually means to apply a public health health approach to violence prevention:
www.pbni.org.uk/publication/...
#publichealth #violence #prevention
My brillaint #SOCQUB colleague @valtglas.bsky.social will be discussing her most recent book in January at the @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
The seminar is 'Judaizing Christianity and Christian Zionism in Northern Ireland', Jan 19th, 16.30-18.00, in-person/online. See:
tinyurl.com/263nbwdh
#sociology