Excited to be running this Festival of Social Science event in Glasgow, on November 7th. If you are interested in LGBTQ+ equalities work or want to come along and learn more, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/looking-ba...

Come and work with us 👇👇

My review of Transgender and Non-Binary Prisoners’ Experiences in England and Wales by Olga Suhomlinova and Saoirse Caitlin O’Shea is out! This is a fantastic book and a must-read if you’re interested in issues of gender and imprisonment.

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A wonderful sunny graduation last week in Bath ✨

My PhD thesis - Memory and Museum Community Engagement - is available online!

The work sits in the intersection(s) of museum studies, memory studies and sociology and it explores memory (work) in three Scottish museum community engagement projects:

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I'm going to be sharing some prior work and thinking about what lessons we can take into the YJ space. How does structural harm impact LGBTQ+ youth in conflict with the law? How might we create safer spaces for LGBTQ+ youth in secure care or YOI's? What kind of care systems do we need instead?

My full and final PhD thesis can now be accessed online. This is an alt format thesis that explores safety in queer spaces, LGBTQ+ experiences in women's prisons and the concept of 'queering' the prison
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Delighted to have everyone here for the @cycjscotland.bsky.social National Youth Justice Conference 2025 at the University of Stirling. Exciting days ahead 🌟 #YJConf25

📣 Our evaluation of the Scottish Child Interview Model for Joint Investigative Interviewing is out now.

Our research recognises the value of the Scottish Child Interview Model and we set out a series of recommendations for how it can be strengthened.

Read the report here 👉https://buff.ly/jzpnjAt

I wrote a wee blog post reflecting on the Spring into Methods Feminist Methodologies ECR panel, you can read it here:

www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/e...

Thank you to everyone who listened to the Men Minds team sharing their reflections of conducting peer research into young men's mental health at Stories of Strathclyde.

Exhibiting Queer Social Justice is looking for FOUR people to produce creative outputs to represent the qualitative data gathered in the Queer Social Justice project (based on 60 interviews with LGBTQ+ people). Outputs will be displayed during LGBTQ+ History Month 2026!

I'm going to be joining colleagues from the Universities of Edinburgh, Stirling, Strathclyde and Queen Margaret University to run a workshop exploring feminist research methodologies! The workshop is for everyone with an interest in the practice, processes, and potential of feminist research methods

🆕 Young people who are care & justice experienced can now get a special support package

How to refer a young person 👇 @cycjscotland.bsky.social
bit.ly/4fLNTk2

We worked with care experienced young people to put together a page of helpful resources 👇
bit.ly/4gFR0LF

🌟 Are you working with young people in conflict with the law in Scotland? 🌟

Whether you are a teacher, a social worker, a police officer, court staff, residential worker, support worker or part of the third sector - your opinion matters.

Please share with your networks and be sure to make contact soon if you're interested, the advisory group will be starting in the near future: [email protected] 👇👇

I haven't posted much on here yet, but looking to connect with youth workers, practitioners, social workers, teachers etc for the project I'm working on at the moment - Challenging Justice Inequalities. We are looking to co-produce a research project with 14-17 year olds about justice inequalities.

A bit of a reintroduction on here:

I'm a researcher at the Children and Young People's Centre for Justice, working on a project with young people about justice inequalities, protected characteristics and poverty

Broadly interested in queer politics, justice stuff, abolition, creative methods etc