Anything to escape a Manchester winter 🌧️✈️

Strong UoM Criminology crew at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference! 🇦🇺🇳🇿

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!

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.

📔 📣 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!

🗣️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.

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

📖🐝 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...

📕 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...

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

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

🐝 📙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...

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

🧸👩‍🏫 Dr Caroline Miles and Professor Rachel Condry presented insights from 15 years of research on filial violence at the Institute of Criminology public seminar series, University of Cambridge, on Thursday. An engaging discussion—plus an excellent goody bag!

Congratulations winter graduates! 🎓🍾

🐝 📰 Another fantastic Bicentennial Blog! 200 years of Prison Research in Manchester by Dr Emily Turner and Dr Marion Vannier.

Check it out: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/clippings/from-philanthropy-to-collaborative-research-200-years-of-prison-r

🐝📰 This week we explore
the historical roots of slavery and its enduring legacy today. @JonCriminology & Rose Broad. #History #Slavery #SocialJustice Read more: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/clippings...

🐝 To mark The UoM Bicentenary, we’re launching a blog series exploring how Manchester’s rich criminology legacy continues to shape our research and impact today. #UkCriminology #Criminology #Academicbluesky

Read more: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/clippings...