Join us on 17th November, 14:00-15:30 for the launch of our 2 new reports on criminal court fines. Drawing together 3 years of research, these reports explore what can be done to make our court fines system fairer, more proportionate & more effective. ow.ly/nmnO50Xol2H

JOBS (×5): Research Fellow fixed-term jobs at University of Stirling. All part of FORTH20 @ukri.org Local Policy Innovation Partnership (LPIP) project between multiple universities and stakeholders, includ. Scottish Government, Scottish Water, SEPA. #Academia #SocSci www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK488/r...

✏️ Looking for ways to take your career to the next level? ✏️ Wanting to enhance the impact of your research on society? ✏️ Unsure what issues policymakers in Scotland are prioritising? Then, join our ADR SCOTLAND webinar 13 November 13:00–14:30 for insights! www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

We are recruiting five Postdoctoral Research Fellows and one Research Partnership Manager for the University of Stirling FORTH2O project paulcairney.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/w...

Congratulations to our Stirling colleague, Prof William Webster, who is the new Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner. Also great to see criminologist Dr @dianamiranda.bsky.social taking over as an Interim Director of @crispsurv.bsky.social 👏 #Surveillance www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/no...

Are you an ESRC PhD student looking for an academic placement? Work with the RELEASE dataset to understand post-imprisonment emergency service use: with me and @kjephd.bsky.social Happy to answer Qs www.sgsss.ac.uk/internship/c... #JusticeHealth @stirlingucu.bsky.social @sacasrstir.bsky.social

Wonderful to see three of our criminologists recognised in the University's Research Culture Awards 👏✨️ Congratulations to all. Outstanding Collaborator: @drashleyrogers.bsky.social Outstanding Mentor: Dr @niallhsmith.bsky.social Outstanding Early Career Researcher: Dr Ben Matthews #Criminology

RELEASE protocol paper is out ijpds.org/article/view... This paper, led by @kjellgren.bsky.social describes how we created the RELEASE dataset, what is in it, and plans for analysis Results coming soon 1/3 #JusticeHealth @sacasrstir.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social

Below is a showcase of photos generated through comparative research for a 'Community Supervision: Seen and Supervised' exhibition. Wonderful work by Dr Fern Gillon & Prof @bethweaver.bsky.social bringing this all together for #ESRCFestival. #Probation comparingpenalsupervision.com/project-medi...

Congratulations to criminologists Dr @niallhsmith.bsky.social (University of Stirling) and Dr @drshanehorgan.bsky.social (Edinburgh Napier) on being appointed as Associate Directors in the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR) 👏✨️ #Policing #Criminology

Jamie Buchan, Sarah Anderson, and Katrina Morrison have published a 'Criminal Justice in Scotland' textbook 📚🍷📖👏 I had the joy of chairing their well attended book launch today. It has gone straight onto #Criminology Uni reading lists. 🔗 www.routledge.com/Criminal-Jus... @kmmorrison.bsky.social

The film we commissioned as part of out ESRC funded homicide trends project is out, and can be viewed here: #academicsky #ESRC #documentaryfilms vimeo.com/1120080918?f...

📄🆕️ New open access article by @drcconnell.bsky.social and colleagues: A systematic review on mandated drug and alcohol treatment for justice-involved adults #JusticeHealth #Health #Drugs #SubstanceUse #Criminology healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

PUBLIC EVENT: Playing the AI Game: What does it mean to use AI in today’s business? Join us at Made in Stirling for two-hour event, which will include an introduction to AI, the game, as part of the Festival of Social Science. #ESRCFestival #AI #Stirling festivalofsocialscience.com/events/playi...

Dr @niallhsmith.bsky.social is one of the co-authors of this article: 'Participatory Visual Methods and the Mobilization of Community Knowledge: Working Towards Community-Derived Disaster Risk Management in the Context of Advancing #Climatechange' #Criminology jprm.scholasticahq.com/article/1298...

🟥 New report published by @prtuk.bsky.social 'The Pains of Progression: the pathway through a very long sentence in a Scottish #prison' A deficit in trust and lengthy delays in sentence progression are leaving long-term prisoners in Scotland without hope. prisonreformtrust.org.uk/a-deficit-in...

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...

📆 📢 The University of Stirling is taking part in the UK-wide Festival of Social Science for the public in late October and November 2025. To look at the list of free public events in #Stirling, #Alloa, #Glasgow and online, see 🔗 👇 #ESRCFestival @ukri.org festivalofsocialscience.com/events/partn...

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...

📄 👇 New open access article by Prof Margaret Malloch published in Crime, Media, Culture journal @crimemediaculture.bsky.social 'Making lives grievable: Crime, culture and remembering the accused witches of Scotland' #History #Punishment #Criminology #Witches journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📄 ✨️ New open access article co-authored by Dr Ben Matthews with Australian scholars: 'Examining the Role of Police-Led Diversion in the Youth Crime Decline in Australia: A Macro-Level Longitudinal Analysis' #Policing #Criminology #Youth #Australia #Academia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

Dr Catriona Connell will be giving evidence to Scottish Parliament Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday. It's part of their Inquiry into harm caused by substance misuse in Scottish prisons. See 🔗 for details. @drcconnell.bsky.social @sacasrstir.bsky.social 🔗 www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-...

📄 NEW Report: Interested in the potential crime and security risks of freeports, in pursuing #NetZero? 'Inverness and Comarty Green Freeport: Assessing Crime and Security Risks' 🔗 to the report in next post 👇 @thesccjr.bsky.social #ICFGF #GreenFreeport #Criminology #Security #Inverness #Scotland

Research by Dr Wendy Masterton & team shows nature-based programmes such as #gardening and forest walks benefit poor #mentalhealth and substance dependence - but opportunities to develop them are limited. @sacasrstir.bsky.social colleagues have launched how-to manuals www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/08...

Abstract submissions are now invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh. Take part in ‘75 Years of Sociology’ – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Submission deadline: 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology

If you're a criminology lecturer, teaching assistant or school teacher, you have to check out our resources! Why not add a podcast episode, recorded seminar or an SCCJR publication to this year's reading/listening lists for your students? sccjr.ac.uk/resources/

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

Just Images is a new #podcast about crime & culture created by students at University of Stirling in Cultural and Creative #Criminology module, led by Dr Phil Crockett Thomas. All episodes made by students, apart from the first (an interview with Dr Lucy Cathcart Frödén) justimagespodcast.stir.ac.uk

Prof Margaret Malloch (University of Stirling) featured in a podcast episode on 'Remembering Injustice: The Movement to Memorialize Scotland's Witch Trials', which she has done @leverhulme.ac.uk funded research on. 🎧 Podcast available to watch on YouTube #Scotland #History youtu.be/eI4k9VKXGK4?...

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...

The British Academy is opening a call for evidence from individuals and organisations with expertise in the key public policy areas for social and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more information and details about how to respond here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/c...

It's here! The Journal of Historical Criminology volume 1 issue 1 now available! Congratulations to editors Iain Channing and Alex Tepperman. Looks excellent - excited to read more. journalofhistoricalcriminology.pubpub.org/jhc-2025-vol...

We are offering up to £10k for researchers to upgrade their skills - e.g. in AI/machine learning; or a language; or something else! Think about it over the summer and apply by early October www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/tale...

“Fiction is an important space where activists reckon with the complexity of their hopes about distant futures.” @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social on what science fiction teaches us about the struggle for prison abolition. #OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/xw5UXjJ

We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social Details: ✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST ✳️Informal enquiries: [email protected] ✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j... @lexnetwork.bsky.social

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

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

Story in The Times🗞 by David Leask and John Boothman, with comment from me. Some people may feel concerned about political and media claims of 'soft-touch justice' and leniency, but official statistics show trends of sentences getting longer over time in Scotland. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

What will the Trust’s major new initiative fund? From strengthening the UK’s world-leading research base to fostering innovative interdisciplinary inquiry, the Leverhulme Centenary Awards are designed to support exceptional research talent. Read more here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/100mill...

The British Academy is inviting #postdoc #research proposals from early-career researchers in social sciences & humanities. If you are eligible and want to discuss applying to do a #Criminology postdoc with us at Stirling, then get in contact. #Academia www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

Today I’m sharing results from RELEASE at the British Society of Criminology Conference - focusing on access to services for mental health and substance use & comparing people released from prison to similar people who hadn't been in prison Come say hi - 2.10pm Portland #bsc2025 #justicehealth

Talking (social science) shop: join us in Glasgow on 27 November for our annual Early Career Researchers Day, where professors Shahram Khosravi and Karen O’Reilly will lead sessions on migration studies and ethnographic practice. Apply by 8 September for this funded opportunity. buff.ly/RwAgtTj

More of a big celebratory fest than a goodbye. At the end of the summer, Richard Sparks steps down as Chair of Criminology. Friends and colleagues, including past and present doctoral supervises, gather, reminisce, and share smiles @uoelawschool.bsky.social

Congratulations to our students who graduated @stir.ac.uk 👏💐🎓🎉 Hooray for Dr Beth Cairns, Dr @scothunter.bsky.social, & Dr Jade Hooper getting PhDs! 📸 Academics: @niallhsmith.bsky.social @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social @dianamiranda.bsky.social @drashleyrogers.bsky.social @drhannahgraham.bsky.social

Are you a UK-based researcher in the humanities or social sciences looking to develop policy solutions to complex sustainability challenges? Learn more about our Innovation Fellowships Scheme Route B: Policy-led (Sustainable Futures) scheme and apply: buff.ly/cxGti22

David Walsh and @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social, co-authors of 'Social Murder?', discuss the impact #Austerity continues to have in the UK. Find the book: buff.ly/VOYYEyf Watch here: buff.ly/nL89Jgs

If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers! The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...

🚨 Apply now: £20K SIPR grant for research on police visibility & community connection. Open to all researchers. Start by Aug 1, 2025. 🔗 Info + apply: bit.ly/3G32fkd 🌐 More details: bit.ly/4n8HQe3 #Policing #ResearchFunding

Happy congratulations to Dr Ringmichon Keishing on passing her PhD viva! #PhDone #Criminology #Sociology 👇👏💐🎉 @thesccjr.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk