I'm taking part in this great-looking symposium in Leeds on 29th May. All welcome! abolitionbacls.eventbrite.co.uk. It's an in-person event, and there is funding to offer a few travel bursaries of £50 to PGRs / precariously employed academics. See eventbrite for details.

This is going to be brilliant! We're SO lucky to have Nat Raha & Mijke van der Drift coming to visit Stirling. I'm stoked to respond to their inspiring book Trans Femme Futures as part of it. Thanks to @memoryplace.bsky.social and Safet HadžiMuhamedović for organising!

I contributed a chapter on Phil Collins's extraordinary abolitionist art project (and documentary) Bring Down the Walls. Highly recommended viewing & listening: creativetime.org/projects/bri... Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlAX.... Thanks: Lucy, @kateherrity.bsky.social, Áine, Phil & Sinisa!

Really good to chat about our show A Giant on the Bridge and Scottish justice issues with Arusa Qureshi and (some of) the team for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j... touring Scotland from Feb

✨️🎓 Funded PhD opportunity: Our colleague Dr @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social is part of the #PhD supervisor team for this AHRC doctoral #studentship on heritage, buildings, and #ClimateChange action. Applications close 23rd January #Scholarship #Heritage #Humanities www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Come and do a funded PhD with Vanicka Arora, Kim McKee & me on thermal comfort in Stirling's historic tenements! Would suit someone with experience in creative & collaborative or activist methods, &/or background in housing, heritage, planning or climate change: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Congratulations to brilliant editors Lucy Cathcart Frödén, @kateherrity.bsky.social & Áine Mangaoang on this huge achievement!!

Excited to be participating in this Glasgow Ursula Le Guin love fest on 4/11 with @suchmayer.bsky.social, @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, @mjrsangster.bsky.social We're celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social gorgeous new book The Word for World which centres on Le Guin's imaginative maps. Come!

Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social. With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙 www.silverpress.org/collections/...

Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃 4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo. www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

We are delighted that Dr Martha O'Carroll is joining us at the University of Stirling to do an SGSSS ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship #research project on 'Activating Anti-Carceral Archives in Scotland', supported by mentor Dr Phil Crockett Thomas @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social #Criminology #Abolition

New article on utopia, abolition and science fiction published open access @thesociologicalreview.org! If you want to read the creative writing by the project's (brilliant) participants which I discuss in the paper, the eBook is free to download at abolitionscifi.org