If you're researching justice related topics and keen on creative writing please take a gander at this call. Feel free to get in touch if you want to talk an idea through before submitting. We're running a couple of writing workshops too in case you're looking for some pointers/ time to play!

Stirling Criminology@stirunicriminology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📝 CfP: Dr @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social, Dr Martin Cathcart Fröden, and Prof Alistair Fraser are Editors of this Special Section Crime, Media, Culture: Special Section Call for Papers: Rewriting Crime Stories: Criminology and Creative Writing #CrimSky #Criminology www.linkedin.com/pulse/crime-...

I'm taking part in this great-looking symposium in Leeds on 29th May. All welcome! abolitionbacls.eventbrite.co.uk. It's an in-person event, and there is funding to offer a few travel bursaries of £50 to PGRs / precariously employed academics. See eventbrite for details.

This is going to be brilliant! We're SO lucky to have Nat Raha & Mijke van der Drift coming to visit Stirling. I'm stoked to respond to their inspiring book Trans Femme Futures as part of it. Thanks to @memoryplace.bsky.social and Safet HadžiMuhamedović for organising!

Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory@memoryplace.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Registration is now open for Trans Cosmologies 2. 30 April–1 May 2026 University of Stirling A two-day in-person multimedia event exploring trans cosmologies, memory, ethics and artistic practice. Register forms.gle/tQHj6QNuzFYP...

I contributed a chapter on Phil Collins's extraordinary abolitionist art project (and documentary) Bring Down the Walls. Highly recommended viewing & listening: creativetime.org/projects/bri... Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlAX.... Thanks: Lucy, @kateherrity.bsky.social, Áine, Phil & Sinisa!

BRING DOWN THE WALLS - Trailer - #NewFest2021

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Stirling Criminology@stirunicriminology.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📖 🆕️ Book Chapter by @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social: 'On Phil Collins's (2020) Bring Down the Walls' Ch 4 in edited book, Sound and Detention: Towards Critical Listening, Sonic Citizenship and Social Justice, by Lucy Cathcart Frödén, Kate Herrity, & Áine Mangaoang. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and...

Really good to chat about our show A Giant on the Bridge and Scottish justice issues with Arusa Qureshi and (some of) the team for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j... touring Scotland from Feb

Between the bars: theatrical gig about life after prison reveals hard truths of homecoming

A Giant on the Bridge, performed by a ‘Scottish indie folk supergroup’, draws on dozens of interviews about the confines former prisoners experience on the outside

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✨️🎓 Funded PhD opportunity: Our colleague Dr @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social is part of the #PhD supervisor team for this AHRC doctoral #studentship on heritage, buildings, and #ClimateChange action. Applications close 23rd January #Scholarship #Heritage #Humanities www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - 2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Come and do a funded PhD with Vanicka Arora, Kim McKee & me on thermal comfort in Stirling's historic tenements! Would suit someone with experience in creative & collaborative or activist methods, &/or background in housing, heritage, planning or climate change: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - 2026 AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award- Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD Studentship at University of Stirling, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Congratulations to brilliant editors Lucy Cathcart Frödén, @kateherrity.bsky.social & Áine Mangaoang on this huge achievement!!

Kate Herrity@kateherrity.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hey all, #Sound and #Detention is out on THURSDAY!!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sound-and... If you happen to be in Oslo on January 19th, at 12:30 do come to our bokbad to celebrate! Please share, particularly those of you interested in #prison studies and #sociology, #Musicology, #SoundStudies...

Excited to be participating in this Glasgow Ursula Le Guin love fest on 4/11 with @suchmayer.bsky.social, @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, @mjrsangster.bsky.social We're celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social gorgeous new book The Word for World which centres on Le Guin's imaginative maps. Come!

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Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social. With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙 www.silverpress.org/collections/...

Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃 4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo. www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

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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

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

The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org · last yr.

“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