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.

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.

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

New paper out in BMJ Public Health ⤵️ We show that extrafamilial violence is an overlooked driver of MH in Northern Ireland. If ACE frameworks don’t include community violence, they’re incomplete. bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/... #PublicHealth #Trauma #MentalHealth #ACEs #ViolencePrevention

We're all over the moon about #LostMothers win at last night's @cjalliance.bsky.social awards! Driven throughout by women with experience of maternal imprisonment & separation, this research really was ground-breaking. What a privilege to be involved. @midwifeteacher.bsky.social@cleanbrk.bsky.social

Bid to let drug users smoke cocaine in Glasgow consumption room Officials say a smoking space for taking cocaine is "critical in order to realise the full benefit" of the facility. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢✨️ Dream postdoc job alert: Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE). Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway. #Criminology #CrimSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...

Today’s “teenage mental health crisis” and social media panic are founded in nostalgic myths. Our best long-term surveys and statistics show Boomer and Xer teens were no happier or more “together” than teens are today

We are recruiting an information systems manager to support our data management and stewardship efforts. 13-month contract on 53k/year, but I'll be looking to extend the role contingent on renewed funding for our CRF. Small, close-knit team + flexible working arrangements.

Nice piece in the Transmitter on recent retractions of work by Gerry Leisman and colleagues www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/j... Interesting that Frontiers seems to be getting proactive in tackling problematic articles. #autism #ADHD

Using DAG and being careful about bad controls in Criminology is not frequent Great paper on sentencing discrimination

✍️ In our latest blog, Professor Laura Abbott writes about her impactful research into maternal care in prison, that helped inform landmark sentencing reform earlier this year. 🔗 bit.ly/435MAcb @midwifeteacher.bsky.social @herts.ac.uk

Does alcohol use and related harm differ based on the age of initiation to alcohol? Results from a prospective cohort study buff.ly/NooxlhZ

Alcoholic drinks, along with fruit and fish, are the only food and drink category to have got cheaper, in real terms, since the start of the cost-of-living crisis. Beer has got slightly more expensive in real terms since the end of 2022, but wine and spirits remain at late 2022 prices.

We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...

Another indicator of risk taking behaviours in young men showing a substantial decline. This is good news.

Neuroanatomical Variability and Early Substance Use Initiation: Insights from the ABCD Study https://bit.ly/46SXDba Blog by Sophie Mizrahi

Reviews of studies on the drop in youth offending finds consistent decreases across many countries ended around 2015, and the drop is best explained by changes in how young people spend free time and decreases in alcohol consumption. doi.org/10.1086/737409

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Surveys have always recorded the public as believing crime is worsening, irrespective of whether official statistics are rising or not. This is because media report the most dramatic violent or property crimes. Meanwhile crimes by the powerful remain mainly hidden

Come work with a great team: Assistant Professor in Social Work post in TCD School of Social Work & Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin closing date 17th November 2025: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

🆕Our team’s new blog is out in Research Matters by the @the-sra.org.uk! 👏 Written by Elena Triantafillopoulou, @georginagbb.bsky.social & Siann Hirani, it introduces the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets - a discoverability platform for 2,500+ longitudinal datasets. 👉 atlaslongitudinaldatasets.ac.uk

I'm doing a webinar in two weeks (15 Oct 1-2pm BST), part of NIHR Research Support Service's Methods Academy series, on the age-old question: should I do a stepped wedge trial? Free registration, details here: tinyurl.com/z6cjvce3 @nihr-rss.bsky.social @wiphcem.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

Those who like a chaser to their House of Guinness will be delighted to hear that 'Whiskey Trade Review' (Dublin), 1893-6. has been added to the British newspaper Archive www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/resul...

Love, death + robots is one of the greatest shows ever. Short films at their best. Only allowed one per night! love-death-and-robots.com/episodes

The ACMD has just published its call for evidence on cannabis-based products for medicinal use in the United Kingdom, as part of its ongoing review. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Mobile drug consumption units could be introduced in Scotland The Scottish Affairs Committee found smaller mobile facilities - like those used in Portugal and the Netherlands - could be more cost-effective, while reaching a greater number of drug users. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today marked the launch of the Screens, Safety and Social Media Report by Prof Michelle Butler, Prof Dirk Schubotz and Dr Martina McKnight from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Access the report ➡️ www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/de... Find out more about the report ➡️ www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

Just watched Elisabeth Sandkey's documentary, The Witches. Unbelievably powerful documentary about mental health. It's a must watch, seriously. Unique use of archival film. Features one off my all-time favourites, Angel at my table. m.imdb.com/title/tt3214...

I'm part of an #ESRC grant exploring #homicide trends in #England&Wales . We have a #dissemination event on the 22nd Sept. Please register/send on to interested colleagues. @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @ukri.org @uniofnottingham.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/40-years-o...

Not entirely unrelated – I would love UK political accounts to get off Twitter. They should do this, even if they don't set up on any alternatives. But it's not that hard to see why many of them won't move here: small, self-selecting, often hostile audience. bsky.app/profile/step...

Deadline is 31 August 👇

I'm just finishing @naomiaklein.bsky.social wonderful book - Doppelganger. If you want a book to help you make sense of a world on fire, this is it. I've only just realised that Northern Ireland is another mirror world,a shadow land full of doppelgangers.

University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.” - www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

Evaluation is important and we have good ways of evaluating instructors (observations, audits, mentoring). But the evidence is clear that asking students to Yelp review their instructors the week before exams yields no valuable information on teaching or learning--just customer satisfaction.

New how-to guide now available on the European Network for Open Criminology website. This time @asiermoneva.com shares advice on writing reproducible and readable analysis code. Highly recommended! esc-enoc.github.io/how-to/repro...

And no chance the AI will produce anything meaningful because it is AI not CI. The former without the latter can only forecast & never understand what causes what. Profit is made from predictions but healthcare requires intervention, which requires CI. Perfectly obvious to those in the know.

We are still taking applications for our PGDip/MSc in Youth Justice and our PGDip/MSc Children's Rights. We're profiling some past students this month. Read Ciara's experience of completing the MSc Youth Justice. More details on the course here - www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

Do we know if the decline in youth drinking follows through into people's 20s? Learn all you need to know about the decline in youth drinking in our latest podcast with Prof @jholmessheff.bsky.social and Dr @amypennay.bsky.social Listen here: www.ias.org.uk/podcast/why-...

Transporting the effect of the ASSIST school-based smoking prevention intervention to the Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Among Young People in England Survey (2004–2021): A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial buff.ly/CMFv4x4 @ctrcardiffuni.bsky.social

We are still taking applications for our PGDip/MSc Children's Rights and PGDip/MSc in Youth Justice. We'll be profiling some past students this month. First up is Jonas who completed the MSc Children's Rights. More details on the course here - www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

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On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This solves that psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...