Last night at the University of Manchester ESRC Festival of Social Science workshop - convened by Dr Jo Deakin - there was great energy, sharp questions, and lots of ideas to take forward!

📣🗂️ New GMCA-commissioned review from Criminology @uomsoss.bsky.social colleagues on modern slavery & human trafficking, with links to homelessness, migration and asylum. Authors: Jon Davies, Tomas Diviak, Celine Giese, Rose Broad, and David Gadd. Read 📖: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

🌟 Meet Dr Eghbal Rahimikia, Assistant Professor in Financial Technology. 🗣️ "I'm leading the FinText project, a dedicated repository of AI models built from the ground up for business, accounting, and finance applications..." @alliancembs.bsky.social 🧵(1/2)

🌟 Meet Dr Ana Niño, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. 🗣️ "My work helps students and teachers use digital tools to learn languages more effectively, making education more accessible, personalised, and engaging in a globally connected, multilingual world."

🌟 Meet Dr Darcy Luke, Research Associate, @productivity.bsky.social. 🗣️ "My research looks at how different UK governments have approached the regulation and promotion of AI, especially in relation to industrial strategy and efforts to reform how industries are governed." @alliancembs.bsky.social

🌟 Meet Dr João C. Magalhães (@jcmagalhaes.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer in AI Trust and Security, @uomsalc.bsky.social. 🗣️ "What if AI doesn’t fix inequality but makes it worse? To ensure AI helps rather than harms society, my research asks, who really benefits from AI?..." 🧵(1/2)

🌟 Meet Dr Diāna Bērziņa, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Centre for Digital Trust and Society 🗣️ "My research examines online marketplaces for digital objects – focusing on the blurred boundaries between legal and illegal activity, the drivers of these markets, and the role AI plays..." 🧵(1/2)

We’ve funded a project by Dr Thiago R. Oliveira from @criminologyuom.bsky.social on “Stop and search and the reproduction of social inequality” as part of our Early Career Researcher Development Fund. Read more 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/stop-and-sea...

New paper out today in JDLCC with @jacksojp.bsky.social. We use longitudinal data from Brazil to study implications of repeated exposures to police violence for adolescent legal socialisation and criminal offending @criminologyuom.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s408...

🎨 Discover how creativity can support young people to move away from crime. Hear a talk, watch powerful short films + join an interactive art workshop 📅6 November, 5-7pm, Martin Harris Centre 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-a-soft... #ESRCFestival #McrESRCFest @ukri.org @criminologyuom.bsky.social

Today we kicked off the Reading Sessions in Quantitative Criminology @criminologyuom.bsky.social discussing @dandekadt.bsky.social's excellent Good Description. Amazing session, this is such a great group! We meet fortnightly to discuss working papers and published papers on quantitative methods.

Can you guess who received the 2025 ESC Policing Working Group Early Career Researcher Prize? Clues: based at @criminologyuom.bsky.social and his initials spell the Catalan word for “thunder” ⚡

Criminology well represented at this morning’s @UoMPolicy training - Felipe Neis Araujo and Callum Wood delivered a compelling case study on research impact in action. #Criminology #PolicyEngagement.

What if justice reform started by listening to those inside? At the House of Commons, voices with lived experience joined MPs & academics to call for change: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...

📔 📣 Delighted to announce that Louise Brangan and Marion Vannier will be the new Editors-in-Chief of The Howard Journal from 1 Nov 2025. The journal’s future is in excellent hands!

📣 We are seeking to appoint a new Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology to support core teaching on our BA Criminology and postgraduate programmes. 0.5FTE, 12 months www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🗣️Understanding and rehumanising the harms of hate - powerful reflections from Professor @NeilChakraborti in today’s talk on how we discuss and address hate in society.

🚨 Manchester is now home to M-PACE – a new Policing Academic Centre of Excellence! Co-led by @rsolymosi.bsky.social & Jon Bannister, M-PACE brings research + policing together to tackle crime, build trust & boost community safety 🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m... @criminologyuom.bsky.social

📢Job alert! Come join us at @criminologyuom.bsky.social ! We're advertising for full-time Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) to develop innovative teaching in trust and security in a digital world. Deadline 4 June 2025. #AcademicSky #AcademicJob www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Undergraduate voices front and centre at CrimCon - with fantastic student dissertation research on show and raising the bar! 📚

Congrats to Caroline Miles and Rose Broad from @criminologyuom.bsky.social for winning in the ‘Outstanding Public Engagement Initiative - National/International’ category. Their research on the abuse of women runners has brought significant awareness and change. #MaDAwards2025 #PublicEngagement

☄️ @criminologyuom.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

A huge thank you to scholars Tomáš Diviák, Nicolás Trajtenberg (@nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social), Olga Sánchez de Ribera, and David Buil-Gil (@davidbuil.bsky.social) from (@criminologyuom.bsky.social) for sharing some of their insightful research with our faculty and grad students! #SFUCriminology

📖🐝 As The University of Manchester settles into 200 years old, our final bicentennial blog looks back at the justice system’s treatment of young people - written by Dr Jo Deakin & Dr Ruth Lamont: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Happy that I received one of the @vp-centre.bsky.social's ECR grants for my research project "Stop and search and the reproduction of social inequality"! 😊 @criminologyuom.bsky.social

📕 Delighted to celebrate the launch of “Prison Leaders” - an innovative text written by lived experience experts and academics. Edited by Dr Marion Vannier & Paula Harriott. Forward by Prof Shadd Maruna #newbook #criminology @uomsoss.bsky.social Link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

📄 New paper out! Co-authored by Tomas Diviak. How do British corporate corruption networks evolve over time? Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📰 In the news! Dr Caroline Miles & Prof Rachel Condry fractured research in @theguardian.com on matricide (son-mother killings) in the UK. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🌟For #InternationalWomensDay, we're spotlighting research on women runners' safety. @criminologyuom.bsky.social researchers' collab with GM Police & Merseyside Police found over 2/3 of runners had faced abuse, read more here: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/1.... #SoSSResearch

Dr Alexandra Cox (@UniRdg_Law) unpacks the historical roots of youth justice, tracing how past frameworks shape present-day policies. #YouthJustice #Criminology

Long time in the making, so it's great to see that my paper, 'Legal cynicism, intrusive policing, and the dynamics of police legitimacy: evidence from Brazil’s largest city', is finally out at Law & Society Review! doi.org/10.1017/lsr.... @criminologyuom.bsky.social

Interested in #football / #soccer and #illicitfinance? Pete Duncan and I were invited by Kyckr to do a podcast on our recent research on this topic. You can listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/0FJp... or Apple here: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/r... @criminologyuom.bsky.social

An excellent midweek guest lecture! Historical account of the regulation of pollution in the Netherlands, presented by Prof Karin Van Wingerde @erasmusuni

📢 Research Associate Opportunity - NHS Counter-Fraud Project> we're looking to recruit an RA for a NIHR funded project on strengthening counter-fraud across the NHS in England. Details here www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #criminology #fraud @criminologyuom.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

🐝 📙Continuing the legacy of ‘looking back to look forward’ - Dr Caroline Miles & Dr Philip Handler look at the history of domestic homicide in MCR: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

A triple feature at this week’s Crim Cafe! Matt Rive (Cuckooing), Marion Vannier & Helen Gair (Carceral Hope).

🧸👩‍🏫 Dr Caroline Miles and Professor Rachel Condry presented insights from 15 years of research on filial violence at the Institute of Criminology public seminar series, University of Cambridge, on Thursday. An engaging discussion—plus an excellent goody bag!

Tomas Diviak is on a roll this week with another article! 📑 . What social relationships and network positions make Dutch Jihadi radicals more inclined to perpetrate terrorist actions? Link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...

📑 New paper co-authored by Tomas Diviak. How does social and geographical proximity affect co-offending among outlaw motorcycle gang members in the Netherlands? doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Prof. Nick Crossley & Dr Tomas Diviak secured funding for a PhD project through a CASE Studentship. The project focuses on cybersecurity, interorganisational communication, and network / with GCHQ. UK citizenship not required. 1+3 options available: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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📰 Capital spending reforms in the Autumn Budget create an opportunity to rethink offender rehabilitation. By integrating AI-driven best practices, we can better support inmate management and community reintegration. #AI #PrisonReform Here’s what I think: flickread.com/edition/html...

Congratulations winter graduates! 🎓🍾

🐝 📰 Another fantastic Bicentennial Blog! 200 years of Prison Research in Manchester by Dr Emily Turner and Dr Marion Vannier. Check it out: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/clippings/from-philanthropy-to-collaborative-research-200-years-of-prison-r

🎁 As the semester wraps up, the Criminology Department came together for a lovely holiday lunch. Wishing everyone a season filled with joy!

🐝📰 This week we explore the historical roots of slavery and its enduring legacy today. @JonCriminology & Rose Broad. #History #Slavery #SocialJustice Read more: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/clippings...

🐝 To mark The UoM Bicentenary, we’re launching a blog series exploring how Manchester’s rich criminology legacy continues to shape our research and impact today. #UkCriminology #Criminology #Academicbluesky Read more: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/clippings...

📢 New policy insights “How to Halve Violence Against Women and Girls”. Essential reading for policymakers and researchers. @profdavidgadd.bsky.social, Dr Caroline Miles, Prof Barry Godfrey. Check it out: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/author/barry... #VAWG #PolicyInsights #Academic #Criminology