Come and join this cool project. You get to work with @ambercopeland.bsky.social and be part of our lovely team of excellent humans.

Unbelievable scenes at the Arsenal parade.

A season to be proud of. We pushed the boundaries over land and sea, and couldn't have done it without your support. Thank you, Gooners ❤️

I'm done with marking, I really am!! Three more to go. 😭😭😭

JOBS: Associate Lecturers in Criminology, Open University – recruiting for multiple part-time (0.20 – 0.5 FTE), home-based/remote, permanent lecturing posts across the UK. @openuniversity.bsky.social #Criminology #CrimSky #Vacancies 🔗 university.open.ac.uk/employment/a...

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

Champions

One of the greatest non fiction books is @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social Midnight at Chernobyl. At the 40th adversary I needed to rewatch Chernobyl the tv series. After reading the book, the tv series hits so much harder. Both are essential.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINALISTS ❤️

My latest (and 10th) article with Ioana Crivatu, Lisa Tompson and Prof Andromachi Tseloni published in International Review of Victiminology. We attempted to do a comprehensive analysis of the 10-15-year-old CSEW. Here is the open access paper: doi.org/10.1177/0269...

What a fantastic thread

We are looking for a short-term full time researcher to work with us on a pilot study in preparation for a longitudinal qualitative study with parents of young children. **Deadline 14th May** More details here www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... @sriucl.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social

Results of this survey will be scientifically uninterpretable: it contains leading questions and is advertised using leading imagery. Disappointing to see such a nice opportunity wasted to study this interesting and important topic.

Coming very soon... tobyseddon.com/research-han...

Story from the BBC here reporting the results of our new study, just published in BMJ Public Health, looking at changes in criminal offences and ambulance callouts when Aberdeen extended late-night opening hours for pubs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/2/...

Great to get hands on the first print copies of our new book, the product of many "notions", edited by @ionaburnellreilly.bsky.social @stephenbaker.bsky.social and yours truly. Official launch 8 May at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to Mr Alex @batesmith.bsky.social and his co-author Kieran McEvoy, who have won the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article of the Year Prize for their article ‘"Closeted" cause lawyering in authoritarian Cambodia'! 🌟Read more about this important article👇 tinyurl.com/t9bbryfk

My dear friend Paige Harden and I both have new books out, and both are about crime & punishment — but from different (though still evidence-based) perspectives.

📣 New job at Oxford's Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM)! 📣 The Departments of Politics & IR (DPIR) and Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI) are hiring an Associate Professor of Causal and Experimental Methods. Come work with me and amazing Oxford peeps! Deadline NOON April 27th.

Remembering Dunblane and all those bereaved and affected, on the 30th anniversary of a horrific tragedy.

Do you live in the UK and have you ever experienced sextortion? We are trying to improve investigation quality and support for victim-survivors. Please consider filling out our anonymous survey to share your experiences. Link here: uclan.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Please RT

Working with partners to develop new and responsive youth interventions is central to our research centre @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @cebys.bsky.social Come help us help youth services to reduce violence and exploitation: hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Substance Use Patterns from Late Childhood to Mid-Adolescence: Updates on the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study: https://osf.io/eh8ba

New fully funded PhD based at @dundee.ac.uk , supervised by Dr Harry Hebert, Prof Lesley Colvin and myself, to investigate Opioid, Gabapentinoid and Antidepressant co‑prescribing. Apply here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... or get in touch if you would like to find out more!

New PhD studentship opportunity! Research and write the history of Release, supervised by me and @alexmold.bsky.social! bloomsbury.ac.uk/drugs-civil-...

🔍 We’re looking for a Research Officer to support the scientific foundation, development, and coordination of our study. 💷 £35,000–£40,000 📅 Closing: 8 March 2026 jobs.theguardian.com/job/10032147... #Hiring #Research #Jobs #Careers #HealthResearch

Lectureship: Quantitative Criminology (Please share) Cardiff University Deadline 11 March 2026 Details: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... #Criminology #Quantitative #AcademicChat #PhDChat #JobFairy #Wales #Cymru

This is not great news. Northern Ireland, the only jurisdiction where deaths are increasing, while declining everywhere else

JOB: Quantitative criminology lectureship at Cardiff krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. This discovery earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974, but not to her - the prize was awarded to her (male) supervisor. #CelebratingWomen

Just landed on my desk-literally! This is class, from my most excellent PhD student, @journey2aphd.bsky.social : coaching and mentoring in the context of criminal justice @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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