📢 2 fixed term positions are currently available within our criminology team 📢 1 Lecturer in Criminology Full time (35 hours p/w), Fixed Term (9 months) Grade 6 - £46,049 to £58,225 per annum Colleagues at the PhD submission/viva stage are welcome to apply www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOH075/l...

Check out our awesome colleague kicking ass and taking names at Edinburgh book festival. 👏👏👏👏 In addition to their fantastic edited collection, keep your eyes peeled for the innovative work they are developing on arts in prisons in Scotland. Exciting stuff to come! @edinburghnapier.bsky.social

Exciting funding opportunity to pursue research that addresses questions at the heart of current policing challenges in Scotland with scope for significant impact 👇👇 EOIs due 4th of July with application deadline of 23rd July

🎓 Fully funded PhD at Abertay University & SIPR: Enabling People to Identify Deepfakes. £20,780/year, fees paid, starts Oct 2025. Use eye-tracking to research deepfake detection. Apply by 30 June 👉 www.abertay.ac.uk/about/workin... #PhD #Cybersecurity #Deepfakes

Stirling criminologist and social statistics lecturer Dr Ben Matthews is interviewed in a @1919magazine.bsky.social article on crime rates and the difficulties of comparative analysis. @thesccjr.bsky.social @socsciresearchstir.bsky.social #Criminology 🔗 Article 1919magazine.co.uk/june2025/sco...

An optimal conclusion to an Irish marathon

Scenes from #SIPC2025 @drshanehorgan.bsky.social opening the day, welcoming @drlisasugiura.bsky.social who delivered a powerful keynote on GBV, technology and radicalisation; then a great panel on police use of tech including Dr Estelle Clayton and Prof Sofie de Kimpe.

SIPC2025 is live! 🎉 A great welcome from Prof Gary Hutchison, Dean of Applied Sciences at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social , highlighted the power of research in policing. @drshanehorgan.bsky.social opened the event. Presenting is Dr Lisa Sugiura’s Nick Fyfe Lecture #SIPC2025

This past year it has felt particularly important to connect with all my students individually, and work my hardest to help them bring their experiences and understanding of the world into the classroom. I am truly SO thankful for this "Best Lecturer" nomination, perhaps I might be onto something.

"Kirstin Anderson opened by pulling no punches". I have zero trouble believing that! As always, here's @kir-anderson.bsky.social taking hard questions head on and leading exactly the kind of conversation we should be having about prisons: about social harms, academic pavidity, and lessons unlearned.

Delighted to have the opportunity to visit School of Law and Criminology at @maynoothuniversity.ie tomorrow to speak about some recent work on strategic communications and ‘influence policing’. @the-sipr.bsky.social

**New paper** 'Abstract Policing, Covid-19 and the 'rural idyll' in Scotland' has been published in Policing and Society www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks to the team Jamie Buchan, @drshanehorgan.bsky.social and Andy Tatnell @edinburghnapier.bsky.social @socscinapier.bsky.social

Did you know? We now offer 3 #masters degrees as part of our subject area's masters suite: in criminology, in joint criminology and forensic psychology, and in social research. All 3 programmes focus on applied learning and offer an optional work placement 💼 Check out the information below 👇

An insight into real world practice as our students heard statements from the Scottish Police Federation and GEOAmey on the impact of COVID-19 on their organisations. Thanks to @kir-anderson.bsky.social and @frasoliman.bsky.social for organising and @covid19inquiry.scot for a warm welcome.

🚨Call for Papers Alert 🚨 #LukeHubbard #LisaSugiura and I are Seeking Contributions for an Edited Collection Focused on Researching Hate! Further Details can be Found Below 👇👇 Closing date for submissions is Friday 28th March! #Retweet #SpreadtheWord #Methods #Ethics #ResearcherSafety

Giving a talk at Manchester Digital Futures today on Influence Policing work with @drshanehorgan.bsky.social and other lovely people - events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... I'll explore some of the emerging ways that police and counter terror are using active digital influence for Prevent policing

Typing passwords #cybersecurity

Hi 👋 Criminologists and those interested in narrative methods - please share… Abstracts have been extended to 3rd March for the 5th Narrative Criminology Symposium - takes place from 15th-17th June 2025 in Swansea, Wales, UK #narrativecriminology www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/narrative-...

Very cool to get my copy of this, written by my brilliant colleague. #antiracism #highereducation #equality #equity #EDI #DEI

🔊Scottish Parliament TV could become a target for deepfakes says new research published today by SCCJR. Authors Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social Morgan Currie & Benedetta Catanzariti @benedetta.bsky.social #deepfakes #AI #artificialintelligence #chamberfakes #scottish #research

We were commissioned by Scottish Parliament to look at the threats posed to them by emerging 'deepfake' technology - so-called 'chamberfakes' of parliamentary business. Report published today with SCCJR www.sccjr.ac.uk/publication/...

A simple experiment you can do is buy a server, set up a website with nothing on it, then look at the access logs. All day, every day, there are random systems just blasting vulnerabilities at every device on the internet. Analysts call it "background noise", executives call it "cyber attacks".

My writing process is usually: a) I got this b) well, fuck c) wait that part was real good d) wait no that part sucks e) I am a god of this place f) the fuck is this shit, who do I think I am, why am I here g) oh man I just figured it all out h) mistakes were made I) existential dread

New writing! I've been shuffling between atrocity criminology and police studies with @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, exploring police as atrocity perpetrators. The resulting draft chapter is now available on @ssrn.bsky.social: Police and Atrocity Crimes papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (1/4)

I was pleased to be invited to write a short viewpoint for the Scottish justice and social affairs magazine 1919, to reflect on the recent tragedy on Edinburgh's Cowgate in early November, the impacts of social media, and police investigations. 1919magazine.co.uk/december2024...

I was pleased to be invited to write a short viewpoint for the Scottish justice and social affairs magazine 1919, to reflect on the recent tragedy on Edinburgh's Cowgate in early November, the impacts of social media, and police investigations. 1919magazine.co.uk/december2024...

Alert: ESRC funded collaborative doctoral studentship to work on insecurity and regulatory deficits in everyday life. Based in @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, supervised by me and Dan Taylor @oupolitics.bsky.social. Collaboration with @unchecked-uk.bsky.social. www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/bridging-the...

Couldn't have said it better myself. The wonderful @lizaston.bsky.social knocked it out the park tonight at her inaugural. So lucky to have you as a colleague, friend and mentor.

Watching an incredible research leader in action—mastering partnerships, uniting diverse actors, and delivering clear, inspiring messages with actionable goals. This is leadership that drives change. 🙌

Lots of love in the room for @lizaston.bsky.social at her inaugural lecture as she discusses her extensive work in policing, public health & tech. Hurrah for a wise, smart, ambitious, super lovely, collegiate and supportive colleague 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼

If you have recently completed a PhD or due to complete, would like to consolidate & develop your research publications, networks, impact & skills in the field of vulnerability & policing + would like to consider a post-doctoral fellowship hosted @vp-centre.bsky.social 👇🏽 wrdtp.ac.uk/fellowships/

The Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Bill, its policy memorandum, financial/cost modelling, and impact assessments are now available. It will likely be an 'emergency' Bill, meaning it will be debated and voted on in a matter of days. (🧵/1) www.parliament.scot/bills-and-la... #Criminology #Law

New: the company behind Pokemon Go has announced it is using data collected by its millions of players to build an AI model that can navigate the real world, and could be used for robots. Doubt Pokemon Go players anticipated contributing data to this project www.404media.co/pokemon-go-p...

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) frontline police responses to cybercrimes in Scotland 2) new materialism

That’s the end of my #asc2024. Delighted bro have made lots of new friends working in the cybercrime research sphere, and spend some quality time with old friends around the Bay Area.

I started an academic criminologists/criminal justice scholars starter pack. This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful. go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z #ASC2024 #criminology

First day of my first #ASC2024 and wow this is MAHOOSIVE. Great start with a very cool panel indeed on humour and narrative criminology. already some valuable reflections to Take home. Need to do my own talks first though 😬

Excellent summary of the article here provided the fantastic Ben collier 👇👇👇

Any bluesky criminologist friends headed to ASC next week per chance?

😀REGISTRATION IS OPEN😀 Join us on Fri 6 Dec for the SCCJR Annual Lecture at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social with Brunilda Pali, Uni of Amsterdam, who will talk about 'Restorative Justice in Environmental Harms & Conflicts.' 👉https://bit.ly/SCCJR-AnnualLecture2024

Any bluesky criminologist friends headed to ASC next week per chance?

Dr Jamie Buchan, @edinburghnapier.bsky.social on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme today talking about sentencing and prison overcrowding. (1:15mins) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #criminology #prisons #overcrowding #punishment #scotland

Today, the Scottish Sentencing Council launch a new video on prison sentencing 👇 Featuring the Council's victims expert, Lynn Burns; a judge, Lord Beckett; people living and working in Scottish prisons; and criminologist, Dr Katrina Morrison. #Law #Criminology #Sentencing youtu.be/SCh3Hi5MPl8?...

7 yo is doing his math homework and whispering “great job myself” every time he puts down an answer. May we all take this energy into this week 😂

🚀📕Hybrid Book Launch of 'The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation'. Join editor Dr Kirstin Anderson @edinburghnapier.bsky.social and Emeritus Professor Mike Nellis on 31 Oct, 3pm at Glasgow Uni or online. All welcome bit.ly/3Nhej1d

Our new paper conceptualizing 'Influence #Policing' is now available from the British Journal of #Criminology. We carve out several 'modes' of #influence and consider its ethics, implications for accountability, and democracy. Open-access advance article here; academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

Excellent summary of the article here provided the fantastic Ben collier 👇👇👇

Our paper on domestic digital police influence campaigns in the UK is now out in the British Journal of Criminology - we evaluate the different mechanisms and methods of police digital influence, including various approaches used for counter-terror campaigns.

Our new paper conceptualizing 'Influence #Policing' is now available from the British Journal of #Criminology. We carve out several 'modes' of #influence and consider its ethics, implications for accountability, and democracy. Open-access advance article here; academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...