Very happy that “Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus” w/ @jarrettblaustein.bsky.social & @nwpino.bsky.social on the history & evolution of the UN crime program got a Special Mention for the @acuns.bsky.social Book Award. If you’re interested, check your uni library or DM me

acuns.org/book-award/

Annual conference - Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Register for the Centre's annual conference: Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice.

The programme is now confirmed and registrations open for our annual conference "Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice".

🗓️ 9-10 September 2025
📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK

Read more and register:

vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...

5 hardback books on a desk, covers showing from top left, clockwise: Speaking Truths to Power by Jarrett Blaustein; The Politics of Police Governance by Ali Malik; Social Harm at the Border by Francesca Soliman; Navigating Local Transitional Justice by Laura Martin; Oligarchic Party-Group Relations in Bulgaria by Mihail Petkov.

And here it is among friends... 5 books based on theses I have been fortunate enough to supervise
@jarrettblaustein.bsky.social
Mihail Petkov
@dralimalik.bsky.social
@thelauram16.bsky.social
@frasoliman.bsky.social

Looks interesting! Thanks for sharing.

It’s on my shelf! I loved Michael Sierra-Arevalo’s The Danger Imperative but I still need to read The Policing Machine.

What is the most thought-provoking paper about policing published in the past two years?

New article in Annual Review of Criminology with first author Danielle Watson, @jarrettblaustein.bsky.social and Julie Berg on Crime and Governance in the Global South

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Happy to be part of a new publication in Annual Review of Criminology with lead author Danielle Watson, Julie Berg, and @jarrettblaustein.bsky.social on Crime Governance in the Global South.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Thanks Kate!

Honoured to have received the ANZSOC 2023 Christine M Alder Book Award with Leanne Weber, Rebecca Wickes, Kathryn Benier & Diana Johns for ‘Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis’.

The 14th AIPEN Workshop: Call for Papers - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) We are very excited to announce that the 14th Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) workshop will be held at the Australian National University on February 7-9, 2024. Sponsored by...

Tomorrow (30 Nov) is the deadline to submit an abstract for #AIPEN14. There will be a strong thematic focus on pathologies of governance and regulatory systems, and possibilities for transformation. Political economists from all disciplines are encouraged to attend.

Details:

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PLEASE SHARE! Looking forward to the Melbourne launch of The Locked-Up Country, Tue 21 Nov at Readings Bookshop, located in the magnificient State Library. RSVP now to join
@TomChodor and me in conversation with Paul Barclay. www.readings.com.au/events/book-...

Graph showing funded providing to Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, and the success rate of proposals, each year since 2002. The success rate has declined sharply since 2020, and is now at its lowest point ever (16.3%). The funding in this graph has been adjusted for inflation to 2023$. Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyITNrCVt7pdLiUzyvC99q7l_X99rCS68r8_3i3h85s/edit?usp=sharing

It's harder to get funding for basic research projects than ever before in Australia.

The @arc_gov_au Discovery Projects scheme now has the lowest “success rate” ever: 16.3%.

Only 1 in 6 grants are funded.

Why? The funding available has plummeted.

Please help, Jason Clare MP❗️

Congratulations!

On the beat of bushfire resilience Recent study of how regional communities were able to react to the disastrous bushfires known as the the 2019-2020 “Black Summer” crisis.

Hello Bsky.

I am a researcher in Australia studying the disruptive and transformative impacts of climate change on policing.

You can read more about my work in this article, recently published by Cosmos Magazine:

cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climat...

Graduate Certificate of Crime, Risk and Resilience The operational challenges for policing, justice, regulatory and security agencies across Australia, Asia and the Pacific, and globally, are increasing in ou...

ANU RegNet's new Graduate Certificate of Crime, Risk and Resilience launches next year.

This award has been designed to future-proof a global workforce and enhance societal resilience to complex, rapidly evolving criminological threats.

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We better be careful because with banter of this calibre, we may become Bsky influencers, with all ten active users of the platform looking to us for a steady stream of wit and wisdom. I don't think I'm ready for that much power or responsibility, especially without monetisation opportunities!

Haha. There are quite a few Canberras of Canberra in Canberra to be fair!

Time will tell

Bluesky appears to be the Canberra of social media platforms, but I think I'm OK with that at this point in my life and career. In any case, I look forward to seeing the posts of people I actually follow once again.