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Criminology University of Manchester
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Anything to escape a Manchester winter 🌧️✈️

Strong UoM Criminology crew at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference! 🇦🇺🇳🇿
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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!
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
📣🗂️ 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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October 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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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)
October 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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🌟 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."
October 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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🌟 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
October 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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🌟 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?..."

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October 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🌟 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..."

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October 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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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.
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk
July 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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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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July 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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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
October 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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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.
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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” ⚡
September 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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.
June 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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June 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
📔 📣 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!
June 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
📣 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
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🗣️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.
June 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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🚨 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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June 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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📢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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May 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Undergraduate voices front and centre at CrimCon - with fantastic student dissertation research on show and raising the bar! 📚
May 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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
May 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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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
April 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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
April 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
📖🐝 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...
April 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM