Almost there…there's no one I find more unrelatable than people who say things like “I cannot wait to see my book published!!”. The prospect of publishing is always one of the most nerve wracking feelings. Even as a selfconfessed publishing scaredy-cat, this does feel scarier than most...1

Given that people is asking me for the numbers, here the table provided by UKRI:

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

I wrote about the Manchester synagogue attack and attempts to blame Gaza protests rachelshabi.substack.com/p/indivisibl...

"We should be more like Singapore" "But far more 18 years old go to university there" "Not like that"

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

Ep 1️⃣ of Series 2️⃣ of Justice Focus ✴️ Postcolonial Policing How do histories of empire shape everyday realities of policing today? I chat to Dr. Zoha Waseem @warwickuni.bsky.social about her research on policing, security, & urban violence in Pakistan. PLEASE SHARE! open.spotify.com/episode/4KiW...

Foreign nationals are underrepresented as a proportion of prisoners jailed in England and Wales when compared with rates of incarceration among British citizens of similar age, an analysis of government data has found

The Centre for People's Justice, based at @livunilawsj.bsky.social, is determined to put your priorities at the heart of their research. That's why they're following the progress of the new 'Hillsborough Law' from bill to enactment, and sharing the process as it happens. #HillsboroughLaw

Is it possible to live a good life in confinement? How do 'official' moral discourses shape what prison makes morally possible, inside and outside? Join us on 17th Oct as we launch a special issue of Incarceration discussing these questions and more events.humanitix.com/themed-issue...

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1 Day Event @uniofbath.bsky.social: "Justice Beyond Criminal Justice" Are you working on justice thinking or processes that sit outside the formal criminal justice system? If so, come & present your ideas Wed 29th Oct *Please share widely* www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/justice-be...

How has 'county lines' drug dealing evolved over recent years? @jennalcarr.bsky.social from the Dept of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology explores the changing tactics.

This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.

What a lovely way to start the week: 🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 My article about the lives of life-sentenced women in the community after release from prison is now available #OpenAccess in Theoretical Criminology: doi.org/10.1177/1362... Key points:

If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

🔴NEW🔴 and exclusive...Part 2 of our investigation into anti-rape organisation Enough Enough ambassador and "recovery coach" spoke at a far right rally along with Tommy Robinson supporters who called for "re-migration" and an end to "Islamic supremacy" www.opendemocracy.net/en/enough-en...

Hey #Criminology If anyone is doing anything on #DigitalPermanance and #CriminalRecords this call may be of interest (deadline is tomorrow for submission of abstracts) @nicolacollett.bsky.social of interest??

Big employability has convinced a generation of decision makers/students that there’s a series of bitesize specific #lifehacks inherent in degree level study that they’ve added. But it’s always been about the journey of gaining competence/mastery of a subject and the things you develop along the way

🔴NEW🔴 Back in February, an expert in sexual violence got in touch with me concerned about a start-up promising to "end rape" on campus. What's the problem? Who doesn't want to end rape? I started to investigate. Here's what I found www.opendemocracy.net/en/campaign-...

*Another* heatwave arrives this week and it could be the most intense yet. But prisons are ill-prepared to protect prisoners & staff from environmental harm. ✍️ A new paper examines indoor environmental conditions across multiple prisons ❌ It’s not good. www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/stale-and-st...

Plus work on lifers in open prisons and incarcerated indigenous people in Canada, and interviews with the Chief Inspector of Probation and the Area Executive Director of the North East. www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/prison-servi...

If you work in #HigherEducation this toolkit is essential reading. From 01/08/25 the OfS are adding a new condition of registration ("E6") regulating #HEIs in England on preventing and responding to harassment and sexual misconduct. #PostGraduate researchers are particularly at risk. #Academia

My PhD thesis is now open access: "Moral messages, ethical responses" - research on how men serving life sentences navigate the moral dimensions of their punishment. Interview-based study completed at Cambridge last year. Links at benjarman.uk/news/phd-ava...

New paper from @danicadarley.bsky.social and I problematising the operationalisation of ‘vulnerability’ in women’s prisons onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📌 Call for interview participants 📌 We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.

🔥 FT calls for sanctions on Israel. “The Bank of Israel invests about a quarter of its relatively large stock of reserves in Europe, which a freeze would make unavailable for their financial stabilisation function and could in time be put towards any compensation due to Palestinians.”

New exhibition, LAB gallery, Dublin: What does it mean to know? Sinead McCann & I have two sculptural pieces. They're about Magdalene Laundries, but not the past. They are about the present, today, us, and the ways we remember (and misremember)the Laundries dublincityartsoffice.ie/programmes-p...

'Measuring sentence inflation England & Wales', with @sentencingacademy.bsky.social We estimate that 87% of the increase in sentence severity experienced over the last 2 decades is due to a genuine change in the sentencing practice (sentence inflation). www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/measuring-se...

Some excellent free events in Liverpool - Eleanor Rathbone Social Justice Public Lecture Series - kicks off with @vcanning.bsky.social & @drleona.bsky.social Others to follow inc. @imogentyler.bsky.social See: www.liverpool.ac.uk/sociology-so... @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social

Good news here in Liverpool! Amazing new AHRC centre on People's Justice, bringing together heaps of organisations to try to improve how connected people feel to how the law is made, their understanding of their rights, and how accountable the law is in practice www.ukri.org/news/ahrc-fu...

Have you spent 10 or more years in prison? Prison Reform Trust is looking for research participants.

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

In this contribution to our themed issue, Jago Wyssling considers how people with dementia are constructed as ethical subjects in Swiss nursing homes: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fab new edition of the Prison Service Journal on women, criminalisation, and how gender affects pathways into the criminal justice system. www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/prison-servi...

Excellent column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on generative AI and universities:

"Have you been a juror on a child sexual abuse trial? Please help improve the experience for others through this innovative study" southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Important research by an excellent @unisouthampton.bsky.social PhD researcher

First up, Julie Laursen and Kristian Mjaland's contribution to this themed issue, 'The absent-presence of the offence in prisons in Norway and England & Wales' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Criminology people with interest in experiences of families of people in prison! I am keen to finally get this idea moving: an edited collection of chapters on stigma. Quite a lot to explore and lots of policy interest. Get in touch and pls share! docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Really happy that the articles in a themed issue of Incarceration on the Moral and Ethical Worlds of Coercive Confinement, edited by me and Ryan Williams, are beginning to come out. Over the next few days, I'll post about them all, starting with our prologue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Easily the best conference I've been to - a small collegiate group symposium where we discuss each other's papers in a lot of depth. Hugely formative on my own work and massively suggest applying.

To all lovely critical thoughtful criminology (and adjacent) ECRs and MCRs, see the call for this incredible conference. Not just for scholars of punishment - any aspects of institutional crim, control, or other critical criminological scholarship v welcome. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Excited to repost this call for papers on politics, harm and justice which we crims at the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social are organising as part of our Brit Soc of Criminology Reg Group. Its on the 18th Sept, but Abstracts are needed by the 17th April. Please send those to Ed, not me! Please repost!

Please share next week's event 👇 with your followers.

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Interested in guest editing for #TheoreticalCrim? We are now accepting proposals for our 2027 Special Issue! Check out our full guidelines for special issue proposals and submit yours by April 15: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Useful article on post-prison deaths highlighting problems with recall, lack of post release support. Interestting that it points to mortality risk beyond initial release period. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Interventionitis is "the tendency of policymakers to treat enduring, systemically generated problems with limited interventions that are insufficient or inappropriate for the intended improvement". Have you come across this in your work?

Now out in Critical Criminology. #Interventionitis in the Criminal Justice System: Three English Cases. By myself, @profalexstevens.bluesky.social, @lbilli91.bsky.social & Keir Irwin-Rogers link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Most read articles for 'Justice, Power and Resistance' - journal of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control with @policypress.bsky.social are FREE this month - links in thread 👇