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David Buil-Gil
@davidbuil.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Criminology at @criminologyuom.bsky.social and Director @crimrxiv.com. All crime data are wrong, but some are useful
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Really interesting to hear plans re changes to school suspension in white paper
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

esp as suspension causes increased risk of later custody
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

we can prevent behaviour leading to suspension
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
School‐Based Interventions for Reducing Disciplinary School Exclusion. An Updated Systematic Review
School exclusion—commonly referred to as suspension—is a disciplinary response employed by school authorities to address student misbehaviour. Typically, it involves temporary removal from regular te....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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💡Did you know? Winners of the 2026 Dissertation Award will get the chance to work with our @ukdsimpact.bsky.social team to write a post for the UK Data Impact blog promoting and celebrating their work!

More info here: ukdataservice.ac.uk/2026/01/27/c... #UKDSDissertations
Celebrate your undergraduate dissertation with the UK Data Service Dissertation Award — UK Data Service
Have you used data from the UK Data Service in your undergraduate dissertation? If so, consider submitting your dissertation to the 2026...
ukdataservice.ac.uk
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 PM
‘Advanced analytics in criminology’ is formalised as one of the 7 key research themes @criminologyuom.bsky.social‼️
Read more about the research areas we cover, our teaching, and our members (including new leads @oliveiratr.bsky.social and Niels Blom):
www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/criminology/...
Advanced analytics in criminology | Faculty of Humanities | The University of Manchester
www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk
January 27, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Judicial records of crimes against the person and property in Spain, 1900 🥶
Source: non-digitized statistical reports from the Barcelona city council
January 26, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Sometimes I like spending time looking at non-digitized historical crime records. This morning I accessed prison records from Barcelona from 1907 (pretty cool huh!). Below is the age-crime curve for the prison population. If anyone fancies a side project using these data, please do get in touch!
January 26, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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To students looking for PhD opportunities in #CriminalJustice. 3XPhd (fully funded) positions to work with Jakub Drápal & @msoltes.bsky.social on their latest ERC project, from Charles University (Prague), imho the leading research centre on #Sentencing worldwide.
www.prf.cuni.cz/sites/defaul...
www.prf.cuni.cz
January 20, 2026 at 2:11 PM
There is still time to register for this event on school absences and crime!
January 20, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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Our Criminology team is expanding! Lectureship position (E&R) available @exeterspspa.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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🧪 Thousands of special issues are stained with PISS (>33% of articles authored by the guest editor). See @hansonmark.bsky.social's thread below for a brief summary, read our preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563), explore our ShinyApp to see where it occurs (paolocrosetto.shinyapps.io/Editors_as_a...).
January 13, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Do you explore intersections between digitalization and geography of crime? @asiermoneva.com, Wim Bernasco and I look forward to your contribution to our guest-edited special issue “The Geography of Crime in the Digital Era”. See call for papers (www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...). Please share.
January 12, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Paper out with @jpinasanchez.bsky.social & @marcelo-f-aebi.bsky.social in @socialindicators.bsky.social 🔔
How often do we compare crime recorded across countries? We show that crime counting rules vary widely across countries and this strongly affects cross-country comparisons
January 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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Our new journal will officially be launching its inaugural issue in April. Evidence assessments, cutting edge methodology papers, research commentaries .. www.tandfonline.com/journals/reb...
December 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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'The Effect of Counting Rules on Cross-National Comparisons of Homicide', by @davidbuil.bsky.social (who came up with the idea & did all of the data analysis and most of the write up), myself & @marcelo-f-aebi.bsky.social, just out at Social Indicators Research (link.springer.com/article/10.1...).
January 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice 📢
Please do share widely 1/3
December 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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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
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📢✨️ Dream postdoc job alert:

Research Associate – Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe (RaRiE).

Full-time, 5 year fixed-term job working with @fergusmcneill.bsky.social at University of Glasgow and researchers in the Netherlands and Norway.
#Criminology #CrimSky
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP716/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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My department at the University of @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a permanent Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence to join @socialstats.bsky.social. We’re looking for candidates whose work connects AI with the social sciences. Applications close 5 January 2026. More details here:
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence:Oxford Road
As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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HYBRID EVENT: 'Introduction to Quantitative Bias' with Rachel Hughes on Monday 1st December at 10am-12pm UK time.

For those near Leeds, bring your laptop and enjoy this as an in-person session!

Sign-up before 9am on Thursday 27th via: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introducti...
November 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We're organising a webinar on 18 February to mark the end of my @adr-uk.bsky.social Fellowship on school absences and crime. With talks from top-notch colleagues including @iainbrennan.bsky.social, @foxnic.bsky.social, Mark Mon-Williams, and many others!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-schoo...
From School Absences and Exclusions to Crime: Evidence and Implications
This webinar marks the conclusion of an ADR UK Fellowship examining the longitudinal relationship between school absences and crime.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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📣 Digital Research Community!

The new UK Adolescent Health Study will follow 100k young people (8–18yrs) for 10+ years. Please share what digital technology measures you think it should include.

Please complete this survey (by 24th November 2025 @ 9AM): cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Adolescent Health Survey - Digital Media
Expert guidance shaping digital media questions in upcoming Adolescent Health Study.
cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Machi Tseloni earned her PhD in 1994 at University of Manchester, where she helped found the Manchester Quant Crim Group. Yesterday she returned to @criminologyuom.bsky.social, joined by her PhD supervisor Ken Pease and James Hunter, on the day of her retirement, to take part in a RESQUANT session
November 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Job alert!
We're looking for a Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy to deliver teaching, supervision and service on MSc and MPhil courses in Comparative Social Policy.
Apply by 14 Nov
More info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
External speaker seminar series at @criminologyuom.bsky.social 🤓
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM