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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · Sep 6

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” ⚡

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Jun 24

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.

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Jun 23

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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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Jun 17

📔 📣 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!

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Jun 10

📣 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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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Jun 4

🗣️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.

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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨 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...

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Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · May 26

📢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

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Lecturer in Microcredentials (Teaching and Scholarship) :Manchester

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · May 23

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

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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · May 8

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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David Buil-Gil @davidbuil.bsky.social · Apr 29

☄️ @criminologyuom.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

CrimRxiv @crimrxiv.com · Apr 29

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

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SFU Criminology @sfucriminology.bsky.social · Apr 9

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

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Apr 8

📖🐝 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...

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Thiago R. Oliveira @oliveiratr.bsky.social · Mar 27

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

Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre @vp-centre.bsky.social · Mar 27

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 👏

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Centre awards funding to projects tackling key vulnerability and policing challenges - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

The Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre has awarded funding to five early career researchers to lead innovative new projects.

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Mar 27

📕 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...

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Mar 26

📄 New paper out! Co-authored by Tomas Diviak. How do British corporate corruption networks evolve over time? Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Understanding the Mechanisms that Drive Relational Events Dynamics and Structure in Corruption Networks - Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Objectives Relational hyperevent data, i.e., time-stamped events comprising two or more actors, provide the most granular picture of network dynamics. Using hyperevent data on communication related to...

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Mar 13

📰 In the news! Dr Caroline Miles & Prof Rachel Condry fractured research in @theguardian.com on matricide (son-mother killings) in the UK. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 170 mothers killed by their sons in 15 years in UK, report reveals

Data analysing deaths of all 2,000 women killed by men since 2009 reveals hidden scourge of matricide

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University of Manchester School of Social Sciences @uomsoss.bsky.social · Mar 10

🌟For #InternationalWomensDay, we're spotlighting research on women runners' safety.
@criminologyuom.bsky.social researchers' collab with GM Police & Merseyside Police found over 2/3 of runners had faced abuse, read more here: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/1....

#SoSSResearch

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Mar 12

Dr Alexandra Cox (@UniRdg_Law) unpacks the historical roots of youth justice, tracing how past frameworks shape present-day policies. #YouthJustice #Criminology

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Thiago R. Oliveira @oliveiratr.bsky.social · Feb 14

Long time in the making, so it's great to see that my paper, 'Legal cynicism, intrusive policing, and the dynamics of police legitimacy: evidence from Brazil’s largest city', is finally out at Law & Society Review! doi.org/10.1017/lsr.... @criminologyuom.bsky.social

Legal cynicism, intrusive policing, and the dynamics of police legitimacy: evidence from Brazil’s largest city | Law & Society Review | Cambridge Core

Legal cynicism, intrusive policing, and the dynamics of police legitimacy: evidence from Brazil’s largest city

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Nick Lord @profnicklord.bsky.social · Feb 25

Interested in #football / #soccer and #illicitfinance? Pete Duncan and I were invited by Kyckr to do a podcast on our recent research on this topic. You can listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/0FJp... or Apple here: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/r... @criminologyuom.bsky.social

Registries Revealed | BONUS: Investigating Premier League Ownership Structures

The Kyckr Podcast · Episode

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Feb 26

An excellent midweek guest lecture! Historical account of the regulation of pollution in the Netherlands, presented by Prof Karin Van Wingerde @erasmusuni

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Nick Lord @profnicklord.bsky.social · Feb 20

📢 Research Associate Opportunity - NHS Counter-Fraud Project> we're looking to recruit an RA for a NIHR funded project on strengthening counter-fraud across the NHS in England. Details here www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #criminology #fraud @criminologyuom.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

Research Associate in NHS Counter-Fraud:Manchester

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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Feb 20

🐝 📙Continuing the legacy of ‘looking back to look forward’ - Dr Caroline Miles & Dr Philip Handler look at the history of domestic homicide in MCR: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · Feb 12

A triple feature at this week’s Crim Cafe! Matt Rive (Cuckooing), Marion Vannier & Helen Gair (Carceral Hope).

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