A new semester is fast approaching, with plenty more brilliant public seminars lined up for the new academic year! 🎓 First up: Prof Iain Brennan on Focused Deterrence and violence prevention in England. 📅 7 Oct, 4–5pm 📍 Roscoe B 🎟️ Free & open to all Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prof-iain-...

Prof Iain Brennan: Department of Criminology External Speaker Seminar

Join Prof Iain Brennan to explore focused deterrence and the evaluation of America’s most successful violence intervention in England.

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Congratulations, Criminology graduates! 🎓 It has been a pleasure to see you reach this milestone. Best wishes for the exciting opportunities ahead.

Blood on the streets! Prof Manuel Eisner joins us for an excellent seminar - titled “Blood on the Streets: The Spatial Politics of Homicide in the Medieval City”. Chaired by Dr Nico Trajtenberg ⭐️

Anything to escape a Manchester winter 🌧️✈️ Strong UoM Criminology crew at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference! 🇦🇺🇳🇿

Last night at the University of Manchester ESRC Festival of Social Science workshop - convened by Dr Jo Deakin - there was great energy, sharp questions, and lots of ideas to take forward!

📣🗂️ New GMCA-commissioned review from Criminology @uomsoss.bsky.social colleagues on modern slavery & human trafficking, with links to homelessness, migration and asylum. Authors: Jon Davies, Tomas Diviak, Celine Giese, Rose Broad, and David Gadd. Read 📖: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

A Review of Greater Manchester’s Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (MSHT) Partnerships Approach

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🌟 Meet Dr Eghbal Rahimikia, Assistant Professor in Financial Technology. 🗣️ "I'm leading the FinText project, a dedicated repository of AI models built from the ground up for business, accounting, and finance applications..." @alliancembs.bsky.social 🧵(1/2)

🌟 Meet Dr Ana Niño, Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. 🗣️ "My work helps students and teachers use digital tools to learn languages more effectively, making education more accessible, personalised, and engaging in a globally connected, multilingual world."

🌟 Meet Dr Darcy Luke, Research Associate, @productivity.bsky.social. 🗣️ "My research looks at how different UK governments have approached the regulation and promotion of AI, especially in relation to industrial strategy and efforts to reform how industries are governed." @alliancembs.bsky.social

🌟 Meet Dr João C. Magalhães (@jcmagalhaes.bsky.social), Senior Lecturer in AI Trust and Security, @uomsalc.bsky.social. 🗣️ "What if AI doesn’t fix inequality but makes it worse? To ensure AI helps rather than harms society, my research asks, who really benefits from AI?..." 🧵(1/2)

🌟 Meet Dr Diāna Bērziņa, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Centre for Digital Trust and Society 🗣️ "My research examines online marketplaces for digital objects – focusing on the blurred boundaries between legal and illegal activity, the drivers of these markets, and the role AI plays..." 🧵(1/2)

We’ve funded a project by Dr Thiago R. Oliveira from @criminologyuom.bsky.social on “Stop and search and the reproduction of social inequality” as part of our Early Career Researcher Development Fund. Read more 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/stop-and-sea...

Stop and search and the reproduction of social inequality - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

This project investigates unintended consequences of stop and search practices and whether they contribute to reproducing social inequality.

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New paper out today in JDLCC with @jacksojp.bsky.social. We use longitudinal data from Brazil to study implications of repeated exposures to police violence for adolescent legal socialisation and criminal offending @criminologyuom.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s408...

Learning About the Binding Nature of the Law: Police Violence, Criminal Offending and Adolescent Legal Socialization - Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

Legal socialization—the process through which individuals develop an understanding of the law and its purpose—unfolds throughout the life course, but childhood and adolescence are particularly formati...

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🎨 Discover how creativity can support young people to move away from crime. Hear a talk, watch powerful short films + join an interactive art workshop 📅6 November, 5-7pm, Martin Harris Centre 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-a-soft... #ESRCFestival #McrESRCFest @ukri.org @criminologyuom.bsky.social

Today we kicked off the Reading Sessions in Quantitative Criminology @criminologyuom.bsky.social discussing @dandekadt.bsky.social's excellent Good Description. Amazing session, this is such a great group! We meet fortnightly to discuss working papers and published papers on quantitative methods.

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🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨 What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description? We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers. Two main contributions... 🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

Can you guess who received the 2025 ESC Policing Working Group Early Career Researcher Prize? Clues: based at @criminologyuom.bsky.social and his initials spell the Catalan word for “thunder” ⚡

Criminology well represented at this morning’s @UoMPolicy training - Felipe Neis Araujo and Callum Wood delivered a compelling case study on research impact in action. #Criminology #PolicyEngagement.

What if justice reform started by listening to those inside? At the House of Commons, voices with lived experience joined MPs & academics to call for change: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...

Leadership Behind Bars: A New Vision for Justice Reform Emerges from the Inside Out

On Monday, 16 June, the House of Commons hosted a groundbreaking event titled “Prisoner Leadership, Meaning, Value, and Role in Justice Reform,” co-organised by Marion Vannier (Senior Lecturer in Crim...

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📔 📣 Delighted to announce that Louise Brangan and Marion Vannier will be the new Editors-in-Chief of The Howard Journal from 1 Nov 2025. The journal’s future is in excellent hands!

📣 We are seeking to appoint a new Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology to support core teaching on our BA Criminology and postgraduate programmes. 0.5FTE, 12 months www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology:Oxford Road

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🗣️Understanding and rehumanising the harms of hate - powerful reflections from Professor @NeilChakraborti in today’s talk on how we discuss and address hate in society.

🚨 Manchester is now home to M-PACE – a new Policing Academic Centre of Excellence! Co-led by @rsolymosi.bsky.social & Jon Bannister, M-PACE brings research + policing together to tackle crime, build trust & boost community safety 🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m... @criminologyuom.bsky.social

📢Job alert! Come join us at @criminologyuom.bsky.social ! We're advertising for full-time Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) to develop innovative teaching in trust and security in a digital world. Deadline 4 June 2025. #AcademicSky #AcademicJob www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Microcredentials (Teaching and Scholarship) :Manchester

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Undergraduate voices front and centre at CrimCon - with fantastic student dissertation research on show and raising the bar! 📚

Congrats to Caroline Miles and Rose Broad from @criminologyuom.bsky.social for winning in the ‘Outstanding Public Engagement Initiative - National/International’ category. Their research on the abuse of women runners has brought significant awareness and change. #MaDAwards2025 #PublicEngagement

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CrimRxiv@crimrxiv.com · last yr.

For the first time, CrimRxiv reached a million views in a month. We're grateful for your participation in open criminology. Special shoutout to The Home of CrimRxiv, UoM's Department of Criminology, and other Members of CrimRxiv Consortium. Learn more: http://dlvr.it/TKRsZJ

A huge thank you to scholars Tomáš Diviák, Nicolás Trajtenberg (@nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social), Olga Sánchez de Ribera, and David Buil-Gil (@davidbuil.bsky.social) from (@criminologyuom.bsky.social) for sharing some of their insightful research with our faculty and grad students! #SFUCriminology

📖🐝 As The University of Manchester settles into 200 years old, our final bicentennial blog looks back at the justice system’s treatment of young people - written by Dr Jo Deakin & Dr Ruth Lamont: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Happy that I received one of the @vp-centre.bsky.social's ECR grants for my research project "Stop and search and the reproduction of social inequality"! 😊 @criminologyuom.bsky.social

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We’re delighted to fund 5 ECRs to lead new projects on stalking, stop & search, romance fraud, missing persons, and sextortion. Congratulations @oliveiratr.bsky.social, @criminographer.bsky.social, Alejandra De La Fuente, Kelly Bracewell, Jo Kenrick 👏 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/centre-...

📕 Delighted to celebrate the launch of “Prison Leaders” - an innovative text written by lived experience experts and academics. Edited by Dr Marion Vannier & Paula Harriott. Forward by Prof Shadd Maruna #newbook #criminology @uomsoss.bsky.social Link: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...