📢✨️ Call for research participants about Scottish #IndyRef Dr Coree Brown Swan & Dr @maydinger.bsky.social, University of Stirling, are creating a digital map of #IndyRef places, traces, and memories. You can participate anonymously or opt to be interviewed. 🔗📄 Form forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Our social sciences and criminology colleagues are ready to welcome prospective students at Edinburgh Napier University's Open Day 2025. Come see us at Sighthill Campus between 10am and 3pm #MustBeNapier

Calling all of our Year 2 Social Science, Policing and Criminology students! Please do attend one of these sessions if interested in studying abroad next year and get in touch with me as academic advisor to discuss modules! @socscinapier.bsky.social 🌍📚📖

Textbook Launch Event🚀 Join us for this in-person event @edinburghnapier.bsky.social on 7 Oct 3-5pm where we bring together a range of voices to reflect on where Scottish criminal justice is and where it's going. Register your place now 👇 bit.ly/criminal-jus...

Interested in quantitative methods, health and justice? Come join us👇

💡📖 Hand picked by our editors, free to access until 31st October - Check out our brand new Editors Choice collection for Families, Relationships, and Societies!⬇️ bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...

Woop woop getting to hear this in presentation form from the very talented Danilo Falzon, @sacasrstir.bsky.social Research Assistant and @socscinapier.bsky.social PhD student!

Spending the morning at the @stir.ac.uk at this great @drnscot.bsky.social event on young people and substance use. A great line up which includes presentations from @sacasrstir.bsky.social former colleagues!

📣 Rapid Review by Danilo Falzon is now live!✨ Preventing Substance Use-Related Harms Among Young People in Scotland: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Systems Solutions Read the review here: buff.ly/Z5qmpte

My brilliant colleagues' recent funding successes have opened up 2 fixed term positions in our criminology team at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social; if you are an early career researcher, or you are finishing up/just out of a PhD, we would love to hear from you.

🔊Register now for our upcoming seminar on Scotland's first Managed Alcohol Programme. 12.45 - 2pm, Mon 1 Sep 2025 @sarnalcohol.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alcohol-oc...

🧑‍⚖️ | The first book in a decade to focus entirely on Scotland’s criminal justice system has been published. Learn more about Criminal Justice in Scotland ⤵️ Story ➡️ orlo.uk/zWH3F #MustBeNapier | @socscinapier.bsky.social

1. I'm chuffed that my paper with Families, Relationships and Societies @brisunipress.bsky.social is featured in the journal’s Editors Choice Collection! This is very much a first for me. The publisher is offering free access until 31st Oct: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...

And today’s publication day! Massive thanks to my lovely @socscinapier.bsky.social co-authors, Jamie Buchan & @kmmorrison.bsky.social - and to everyone who helped by reviewing chapters, answering queries or chatting to us about their work. www.routledge.com/Criminal-Jus...

JOB: Lecturer in Criminology (R&T) at the University of Glasgow. Full time, fixed term (5 year) post in a collegiate team which is part of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social #Criminology #AcademicSky #Research www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD973/l...

The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk. committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...

The Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission have published a new short primer paper 👇 🔗 It highlights key issues facing Scotland's Justice system, with a focus on the prison population. #Sentencing #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #CommunityJustice #Victims #ScottishJustice www.gov.scot/publications...

We are incredibly proud to announce that our talented colleague @kir-anderson.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious RSE Personal Research Fellowship for her research project on harm, history, and memory in Scottish prisons 👏

You can't swing a cat in Napier's crim team's offices without hitting a successful colleague in the face, and I am beyond delighted to see the latest success of all-round excellent human being @kir-anderson.bsky.social, I can think of no better person to conduct this important project.

My (nearly) 4 year old daughter and I travelled to Cambridge from Scotland at the weekend for a lovely wedding. Travelling a long distance is not without its challenges esp where young children are involved.

A thoughtful piece from James for anyone interested in how problem drinking is conceptualised. The essay explores the label of 'the alcoholic', discusses issues of stigma and self-stigma, and encourages us to consider how alcohol problems exist beyond the 'alcoholism' paradigm.

Our colleagues Jamie Buchan, Sarah Anderson and Katrina Morrison have written the first textbook on Scottish criminal justice in over a decade. A guide to key institutions through a critical lens, and essential read for criminology students in Scotland. Out 4 August www.routledge.com/Criminal-Jus...

Scotland has the highest drug death rate in Europe. What bold action is needed to tackle this crisis - and end the stigma? with Stirling University @audreynicollsnp.bsky.social , Kirsten Horsburgh, @catrionamath.bsky.social and Patricia Tracey 🎟️ Book your tickets now: ow.ly/vgwV50WjB0C #FoP2025

New edition 278 of Prison Service Journal available now! This is a special edition focusing on developments in youth justice across Europe. 🔗 www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/prison-service-journal-278 #prisonservice #prisonservicejournal #psj #youthjustice #europeanyouthjustice #europe #openaccess

🎧 NEW JUST HUMANS EPISODE OUT NOW! Listen on Apple & Spotify - search 'Just Humans' - or on our website. sccjr.ac.uk/podcast/a-se... 🔊 Wee clip below of @justrachelle.bsky.social Nicola Ceesay & @margueritesch.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

I really love this journal, yet another incredible issue featuring cutting edge critical and radical scholarship, and a great bonus is that so many articles are open/full access. Looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one.

If you're 18-30 and live in the UK please fill out this survey for the opportunity to be interviewed for our research on attitudes towards people who use drugs (if interviewed you'll receive a £15 Love2Shop voucher!) bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Shares much appreciated!

Fantastic news!

I’m very excited to be at @edbookfest.bsky.social to discuss the Barlinnie Special Unit in a panel with #LadyUnchained Their poetry collection ‘Behind Bars’ should not be missed! Come join us and @noellecobden.bsky.social for a discussion on arts and imprisonment www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

🚓 | #EdNapier will be the home of Scotland’s only Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (P-ACE), building on its success of hosting the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (@the-sipr.bsky.social). Read more ➡️ orlo.uk/W9OV1 #MustBeNapier | #ENUDifferenceMakers

🎉 We did it! SIPR is now officially a UKRI-funded Centre of Excellence — and we’re leading Scotland’s only P-ACE at ENU! 💥 Shaping the future of policing through research, tech & training. See links in comments 👇 #FutureOfPolicing #SIPR #UKRI

👋 Janine Aitken, University of Stirling, gives us an update on the RELEASE project in our latest SCCJR blog. The project focuses on understanding how individuals access health services for mental health and substance use following their release from prison. 👉 www.sccjr.ac.uk/news_item/re...

Excited to give a SASO guest lecture on the Barlinnie Special Unit tomorrow evening, 4 March 2025, at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court, 17:30, free, open to all interested and no registration needed @socscinapier.bsky.social www.sastudyoffending.org.uk/attachments/...

Brilliant to see such a great turnout to this important campaign at our local library in Stirling. Good to meet/catch up with you all @jessicagreenhalgh.bsky.social @sacasrstir.bsky.social and @scottishfamilies.bsky.social And thanks for the chocolates! #substanceuse #drugs #alcohol #families

Please do join us next week if you're in Stirling or St Ninians!

Research Fellow Criminology (12 month post), Edinburgh Developing linked data research using administrative data in Scotland Closing 5 February elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #PhDChat #AcademicChat #JobFairy

Very excited to announce a book that’s been a long time in the making, ‘The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Innovation and Punishment’ @watersidepress.bsky.social www.watersidepress.co.uk/books/barlin...

“Some opponents of the Glasgow facilities argue that they have been presented as a “silver bullet” to Scotland’s drug-death crisis. The Scottish government and developers of the Glasgow facility don’t make this claim, but it is still important to be clear about the aims...”

One of the things we found in this study was that no-one we interviewed saw SDCFs as a silver bullet (which is not to say their potential impact hasn’t been oversold at times, inc by advocates and esp re overall mortality) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35682161/

Having the concept introduced to me was beneficial in so many ways! Big shout out to the you and the co-authors!

Great to see our OA paper published in @commsmed.bsky.social It shares our experience of using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) in the NIHR funded SHARPS study www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The UK's 1st Safer Drug Consumption Facility is opening in Glasgow - a remarkable achievement. Its advocates believe it could save lives & transform the country's drugs policy. With all eyes on the city I visited & wrote about it for the @londonreview.bsky.social blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

Prof Carol Emslie at Glasgow Caledonian University discussing her #DontPinkMyDrink campaign highlighting the "variety of cynical ways women are marketed to with alcohol" - #BBCPanorama There has been an 8 fold increase in liver disease deaths in women since 1968 (UK) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

📣 | Last call for tonight's professorial lecture with @lizaston.bsky.social, Professor of Criminology at #EdNapier and Director of @the-sipr.bsky.social. We look forward to welcoming you all to Craiglockhart later. Full details and to register ➡️ orlo.uk/ZOSJ2 #MustBeNapier

In this wonderful new space with so many new friends, I'm delighted to reshare my first ever paper! An autoethnographic exploration of my journey through incarceration based trauma. online.ucpress.edu/joae/article... #criminology #livedexperience

Useful thread on Scottish legislation aimed at reducing the prison population 👇

Hello all, this seems like a nice place to be! For my first post I’m sharing my paper published today, 18th Nov, in @bupjournals.bsky.social journal FRS. Being honest, I am really chuffed to see this out there - the last paper from my PhD that has taken literally years to do…