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Michelle Addison @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social · Jul 4

New website launch! 📣💫Check out our new multidisciplinary 'Health, Crime & Justice' research group healthcrimeandjustice.co.uk

We have an infographic about our ESRC Health & Justice research project & a video explaining what we're doing too 🙂👉 vimeo.com/1093243940/f...

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Dr Kelly J. Stockdale @kellyjstockdale.bsky.social · Mar 11

Happy one year anniversary to our book ´Marginalised Voices in Criminology’ 🎉 and what a year - do please have a read/get your students to read (inspection copies available) & think about whose voices are positioned/whose are excluded … and why it matters www.routledge.com/Marginalised...

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Mar 3

#ICYMI: Toxic threads – Ghana and the fallout of the Global North’s fast fashion habit

Miriam Emefa Dzah on racial capitalism, waste colonialism and dead white people’s clothes. One of the Magazine’s #2024mostread.

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Toxic threads: Ghana confronts the fallout of the Global North’s fast fashion habit

Miriam Emefa Dzah explores racial capitalism, waste colonialism and obroni wawu (dead white people’s clothes) in Kantamanto market, Accra.

thesociologicalreview.org

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Michelle Addison @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social · Jan 20

📣⭐NEW PAPER: 'Stigma & the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions'⭐ with @profbambra.bsky.social @profmlhussier.bsky.social & @stephscott.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Stigma and the Inverse Care Law: Experiences of ‘Care’ for People Living in Marginalised Conditions

This paper explores the connection between stigma and the Inverse Care Law (ICL) by focussing on the idea that people who have the greatest needs often have the least support from healthcare services...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · Jan 12

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/l...

The incredible work of serving prisoners that won't get enough coverage

The Dangerous Yet Desirable Work of Being an Incarcerated Firefighter in California

More than 900 prison firefighters were responding to the crisis in Los Angeles — but their pay is low and the ethics of their choice are complicated.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · Jan 1

Full credit to @daveburke12.bsky.social and the Mirror for remembering, honouring & humanising these people.

Dave Burke @daveburke12.bsky.social · Jan 1

“It’s absolutely horrifying seeing so many names and faces who have lost their lives needlessly. Every one of these deaths could have been prevented."
Heartbreaking, harrowing, and something to reflect on going into 2025
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Names and faces of people who died in Channel during deadliest year on record

Heartbreaking photos show men, women and children who died this year trying to reach the UK in small boats as MPs are urged to reflect on the tragedies and stop it happening again

www.mirror.co.uk

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British Journal of Sociology of Education @bjse.bsky.social · Dec 11

This Special Issue Call centres on Race, Gender and Representation in Higher Education, a timely and important topic-- spread the words, and send in your abstracts!

Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · Dec 10

2. Critical Perspectives on Race, Gender and Representation in Higher Education (deadline 28 Feb)

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Critical Perspectives on Race, Gender and Representation in Higher Education

think.taylorandfrancis.com

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Nir Rotem @nirotem.bsky.social · Dec 19

A great opportunity to contribute to this important conversation about the attacks on higher education

British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · Dec 18

We are seeking reflections by sociologists from across the world on the ongoing managerial and ideological attacks on higher education.

Find out more about the project and the call for submissions here ➡️ https://buff.ly/3XOrZXx

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Professor Joanna Semlyen @joannasemlyen.bsky.social · Dec 16

Pleased to see this is now published as online first:

“Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback”

@ginnybraun.bsky.social
@vicclarke.bsky.social
@janeemcallaghan.bsky.social, LaMarre & Adams

doi.org/10.1037/qup0...

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · Dec 16

This week, we’re launching a blog series highlighting chapters from a new book - 'the Handbook on Border Criminology', edited by Profs. Mary Bosworth, Prof. Katja Franko, Prof. Maggy Lee, and Dr. Rimple Mehta. Stay tuned!

Find out more about the new book:

Handbook on Border Criminology

‘An excellent, interdisciplinary Handbook produced “in the shadow” of Ukraine and Gaza, this volume places before us the challenges of building critical decolonial knowledge in the field of border…

buff.ly

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Dr Suleman Lazarus @drslazarus.bsky.social · Dec 10

'Publish or perish’ has evolved into ‘demonstrate impact or perish.’ Are citations, the lifeblood of academia? Check ✔️ #citation #academia #ImpactMatters #scholarly
@timnewburn.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1448...

An Autoethnographic Perspective on Scholarly Impact, Citation Politics, and North–South Power Dynamics

Citations signal the significance and impact of publication outputs, conferring prestige within an academic prestige economy. The longstanding academic mandate to ‘publish or perish’ has been marri...

doi.org

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Health Equity North @healthequitynorth.bsky.social · Dec 9

Meet our #WomanOfTheNorth report authors - part of the 70+ authors who contributed to the report published earlier this year go.bsky.app/NA3X2zS

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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · Dec 8

"...they’re cutting funding to the very disciplines where Māori and Pasifika researchers are most strongly represented. This isn’t just about disciplines – it’s about who gets to research, whose knowledge counts, whose stories matter": Selina Tusitala Marsh
newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/09/a...

Arts don’t just decorate knowledge, they deepen it

Former poet laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh on funding cuts to arts and social sciences ... "Some discoveries shake the earth. While others whisper of their worth"

newsroom.co.nz

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Dr Kelly J. Stockdale @kellyjstockdale.bsky.social · Dec 6

Fantastic! Huge yes for writing for fun 🎉 this sounds a wonderful piece 🌟

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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · Dec 2

One for criminologists to get their teeth into:

Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · Dec 1

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t?

This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown

Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?

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@thetimes.com

🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

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Dr Kelly J. Stockdale @kellyjstockdale.bsky.social · Nov 30

That is an excellent image!

Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · Nov 29

I'm sure this Science story on how systematic reviews are threatened by paper mills is good, but the illustration by Sara Gironi Carnevale is great

saragironicarnevale.com

Story: https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

Cartoon which mimics The Great Wave off Kanagawa, but the wave is made of research papers and the boat is full of lab coated researchers

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Nov 27

We are now up to 84 universities making staff redundant. A key part of our society is retreating at a staggering pace that would never be allowed if the decisions were all seen and weighed up together. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

UK HE shrinking

This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

qmucu.org

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Criminology, Sociology & Policing, Hull. @crimsochull.bsky.social · Nov 24

Open now: the Professor Surya Subedi Global Essay Prize for the best original essay on the abolition of modern forms of slavery or the protection of human dignity.
Prize: £500
Closing date: 31 December 2024.

More information here: www.hull.ac.uk/research/ins...

Subedi Essay Prize

Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation - Subedi Essay Prize

www.hull.ac.uk

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Sarah @skiplightly.bsky.social · Nov 24

Some of the most powerful artists and art works are found behind prison walls.
The Koestler Exhibition provides the visitor with a glimpse at a wide range of art. Rehabilitation comes in many forms; never underestimate the power of art to transform someone's life.
Go if you can.

Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Nov 24

"It can be more than black/white"

Visited the always thought-provoking annual Koestler Exhibition at London's Southbank Centre - 200 pieces of art by those in custodial settings 👇

Not telling people what to think, but enabling interesting discussions to arise within visitors. Recommend it.

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Fiona Measham @fmeasham.bsky.social · Nov 23

I’ve been interviewed about other drugs, drug policy & (of course) drug checking in recent years so it was quite a trip to go back to the heady heights of millennial cafe bar culture, alcopops & 24-hour cities, to reflect on how policy affects the lives, & bodies, of young people into adulthood.

Fiona Measham @fmeasham.bsky.social · Nov 22

A BBC Panorama doc featuring reporter Hazel Martin & I is being broadcast on Monday looking at the binge drinking phenomenon of the 2000s & its health impact on young women like her.
We are doing a bit of a press blitz that day. You can catch us on BBCNews, @bbc5live.bsky.social & other radio shows.

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Dr Kelly J. Stockdale @kellyjstockdale.bsky.social · Nov 22

Thank you Omar, it’s really appreciated 🌟
We are very grateful to everyone who contributed, and to Routledge. Hopefully there will be more in the future!

Dr Kelly J. Stockdale @kellyjstockdale.bsky.social · Nov 22

Thank you for sharing the forward - this was my set reading for students their first week. 3 pages, a not easy ‘easy’ read, that sets out the need to think about & address inequalities in social and criminal justice & why thinking about whose voices are marginalised is so important for #criminology

Michelle Addison @drmichelleaddison.bsky.social · Nov 22

Sharing the foreword from our new book - Stockdale & Addison 'Marginalised Voices in Criminology' routledge.com/Marginalised... written by Rona Epstein and Steve Tombs on behalf of the Alliance 'Is it a Crime to be Poor?' crimetobepoor.org

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Nov 20

With university departmental closures are we seeing the emergence of geographical 'cold spots' for social science/humanities/arts (SHAPE) subjects? We've developed a new beta mapping tool using HESA data to enable you to explore the situation by subject www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

Mapping SHAPE provision in UK higher education

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Stirling Criminology @stirunicriminology.bsky.social · Nov 20

Are you coming to the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) Annual Lecture?

5pm, Friday 6 December in Edinburgh.

Title: 'Restorative Justice in Environmental Harms and Conflicts'.
Speaker: Dr Brunilda Pali, University of Amsterdam.
#Criminology
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sccjr-annu...

SCCJR Annual Lecture 2024: Brunilda Pali

Dr Brunilda Pali, University of Amsterdam, will present this year's lecture on 'Restorative Justice in Environmental Harms and Conflicts.'

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Kelly J. Stockdale @kellyjstockdale.bsky.social · Nov 20

The weather has been wild in Scotland these last few days 🌊 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Handy number to store if you’re near the coast - spotted this little seal pup washed up & stranded on our morning walk (cropped photo, I didn’t get this close, it was taken from a distance with location info for rescue service) 🤍

Seal pup, approx 10-12 days old, on rock, head up looking towards the camera (it’s a zoomed in cropped shot - wider image has location info as it was sent to marine rescue service)

Poster for the British Divers Marine Rescue Telephone 01825 765546 and a reminder to not go near marine life/keep dogs away and on leads

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