New article: 'The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality' in Work, Employment & Society
So pleased to share this, co-authored with the wonderful Prof Sharon Wright Prof Lisa Scullion which re-analyses Conditionality data through a 'job quality' lens
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Our very own Hannah Smithson and Dr Deborah Jump write about children’s experiences of custody during Covid. ‘Unmasked and Exposed’. In BJC 👇🏻👇🏻Manchester Metropolitan Uni Janet Daby MP Anne Longfield UK Research and Innovation NAYJ Tweets Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-ar…

An HMI Prisons report has found girls at the highest risk of self-harm being subjected to repeated strip-searches and unauthorised use of pain-inducing restraint.

Read our joint statement with Women in Prison: buff.ly/48LmcEq

#WomenInPrison

Have you booked your spot for our #InternationalWomensDay Spotlights event? We will be joined by paula harriott of Prison Reform Trust, sonya of Women in Prison and Jules Rowan of Life After Prison.

Book your free place here: howardleague.org/events/spotlig…

Sharing the foreword from our book 'Marginalised Voices in Criminology' routledge.com/Marginalised-V… written by Rona Epstein and Steve Tombs on behalf of the Alliance 'Is it a Crime to be Poor?' crimetobepoor.org Dr Kelly J. Stockdale 👇@durhamsociology

Girls and Gangs: A Decade on From the Firmin Report and What Has Changed? New article by myself and Rachel Horan MetroPolis Builds on seminal work by Prof. Carlene Firmin and recent work with MCYS and Anne Longfield Centre for Young Lives Jess Phillips MP
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.Ben Lindsay OBE, Founder of @powerthefightuk, gives an insightful speech on serious violence.

Ben's 4️⃣ key points:

1. Individual responsibility v. system change
2. Reducing violence is not just a policing issue
3. How culturally sensitive is your workforce?
4. We must adapt

Criminology: Whose side is it on? With the brilliant Paula Harriet Prison Reform Trust and Cara Jardine Dr Cara Jardine This plenary will explore how our work impacts research participants, and how where we work, the UK university sector, is impacting the future of criminology

We first co-designed Risk Outside the Home Child Protection Pathways in 2021

It's great to share what parents, young people & professionals from the latest pilots have said about how far we've come & how far we have to go 👇🏾

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#ContextualSafeguarding

👨‍👧‍👦 Children Heard and Seen is screening 'Invisible Children' an 11 minute film, followed by a discussion on parental imprisonment impacts. Register now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-happens…

The Young Women’s Justice Project's latest briefing paper, 'A Call to Action,' reveals a shocking 65% increase in self-harm incidents among women in prison. Young women aged 21 to 24 are the most affected.🌐 #PrisonReform ayj.org.uk/news-content/w…

We've got a new website. ( #Chuffed .)

There's a lot more info on what we're doing, how we're going about it, and what we've found so far. Check it out at ylyf.co.uk

#Education #Training #England #Vocational #YoungPeople #Research

Starting off my trip to Durham University with a talk to MSc students on U.S. prisons and higher education. Such a pleasure to be here with my International Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program colleagues Kate O'Brien Hannah King - looking forward to our in-prison workshop and international speaker panel next week!

It’s #Newborn publication day 💙💚♥️🧡💛…a book with my whole heart in it.

I left school at 15 with no qualifications & this is my 4th (!) book. It feels miraculous.

Feeling lucky to be a mum. Lucky to be alive & very grateful for this moment ❤️

👏👏👏I’m pleased to announce that I will be taking up a chancellors fellowship Metropolis with the team at the @coyl2022. The brief is transforming youth justice - no pressure 🤣 MCYS MMU CrimSoc Society Youth Justice Board AYJ NAYJ Tweets

NEW CAMPAIGN ALERT!

We’ve been working with Clarissa J. DiSantis and The Misconduct Disclosure Scheme on a resource to help stop passing known staff perpetrators moving between HEIs.

TL:DR Get your uni to sign up to help combat ‘pass the perpetrator’

1752group.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/briefi…

*BREAKING NEWS*
By popular demand - & full of festive goodwill - we have extended the deadline for abstracts (to 31st January 2024)!

Merry Christmas! 🎅

#YouthStudies

ulster.ac.uk/conference/jou…
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J of Youth Studies The BSA BSA Youth Professor Dan Woodman Steven Threadgold Prof Steven Roberts

StCuthbert'sSociety Thank you Prof Tammi Walker Hannah King for hosting me, Graham Towl for planting the seed, & to everyone who’s welcomed me so warmly & made me feel so at home in the Fellows Flat this term 🙏🏼

⭐ Member spotlight ⭐
 
Meet Nicole Westmarland
📅️ Co-Founded CRiVA in 2013
🎓 Professor in Durham Sociology
 
Read more 👉staffblog.webspace.durham.ac.uk/celebrating-10…
#CRiVA10Years
Durham University Professor Nicole

Heartening to see tributes to the great man Benjamin Zephaniah. Amidst the sadness at his death, we remember his championing of life, truth, and people suffering from injustice.
Amongst his many achievements: the foreword to Carolyne Willow’s book ‘Children Behind Bars’…