University of Manchester - Archive (criminology)
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2024
12
December
2024
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15:58
Europe/London
The School of Social Sciences is delighted to announce Dr Claire Fox of the Criminology Department has been awarded a Principal Fellowship from AdvanceHE. The Principal Fellowship is awarded to individuals who demonstrate a sustained and …
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06
December
2024
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09:00
Europe/London
The University of Manchester hosted a panel discussion comprised of academics and politicians to explore the causes and impact of the civil unrest that gripped swathes of UK towns and cities during the summer of 2024.
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23
April
2024
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17:30
Europe/London
Each year, the Department of Criminology at The University of Manchester recognises Teaching Assistants with TA of the Year Awards. The Department bestows the 'TA of the Year Award' on Teaching Assistants who have demonstrated excellent performance …
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22
March
2024
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16:59
Europe/London
On Wednesday, 20 March 2024, The University of Manchester's Department of Criminology, in collaboration with the Department of Economics and the UoM Bicentennial Team, organised a landmark event commemorating 30 years of ground-breaking quantitative …
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21
March
2024
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09:34
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has been named an Academic Centre of Excellence (ACE-CSR) in recognition of its internationally leading cyber security research.
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29
February
2024
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10:00
Europe/London
A project to learn about women鈥檚 experiences of abuse whilst out running has found that more than two-thirds of them have been abused in some way.
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2023
10
November
2023
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14:17
Europe/London
Renowned Swiss politician Ruth Dreifuss will deliver the inaugural Department of Criminology Annual Lecture at the University of Manchester on Wednesday, 15 November 2023.Madame Dreifuss, the former President of Switzerland, will discuss her …
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10
November
2023
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12:46
Europe/London
On Wednesday, 20 March 2024, The University of Manchester will host an event to mark three decades of quantitative criminology research in 91直播. This occasion serves as a tribute to the enduring legacy of quantitative criminological …
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15
September
2023
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21:49
Europe/London
This year brought many achievements for the Department of Criminology, including welcoming new faculty, reaching teaching milestones, securing research grants, and receiving prestigious awards. As we enter a new academic year, we celebrate these …
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01
August
2023
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10:37
Europe/London
One of the students of the BA Criminology short dissertation pathway has received one of the three UK Data Service Dissertation Awards 2023. These awards celebrate undergraduate dissertations based on the use of archived data available through the …
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25
April
2023
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11:38
Europe/London
Each year, the Department of Criminology of The University of Manchester recognises two Teaching Assistants as TA of the Year Awards. The Department rewards the 鈥楾A of the Year Award鈥� to a TA with an excellent performance during the last academic …
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03
April
2023
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12:03
Europe/London
An innovative new student education programme led by The University of Manchester is one of five new projects aimed at reducing recreational drug use to have been awarded money from a 拢5 million government innovation fund.
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24
March
2023
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16:30
Europe/London
Meropi Tzanetakis is Lecturer in Digital Criminology and has been awarded the prestigious Elise Richter Grant by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Meropi was selected from a competitive pool of applicants to undertake a four-year research project on …
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07
March
2023
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15:12
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is the new home of CrimRxiv, a repository and hub for open access (free) criminology and criminal justice publications. This strengthens UoM鈥檚 reputation as a global leader in criminology and in open research. Since its …
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2022
22
November
2022
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12:46
Europe/London
Experts from The University of Manchester have claimed that the Government is misleading the public by claiming that modern slavery can be eradicated by toughening up border controls and extending sentence lengths for offenders.
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25
October
2022
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14:06
Europe/London
Professor David Gadd of The University of Manchester鈥檚 School of Social Sciences is among the finalists for the prestigious Celebrating Impact Prize of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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18
August
2022
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11:50
Europe/London
A growing departmentWe were very lucky to have grown as a department, and this year were pleased to welcome a number of new staff:Dr Eon KimDr Katie Benson Dr Jon DaviesDr Nico TrajtenbergDr Olga Sanchez De RiberaDr David StrawDr Fiamma …
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2021
17
December
2021
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11:44
Europe/London
The Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre, led by the universities of York and Leeds, is the first of its kind to study how vulnerabilities - such as exploitation by county lines drug networks, online child sexual exploitation, …
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18
October
2021
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11:59
Europe/London
A Lecturer from the Department of Criminology was recognised on 13 October at Research Capability 2021, an event held by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), recognising outstanding, innovative research carried out using ONS secure …
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19
July
2021
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14:09
Europe/London
British Academy Global Professor in Criminology, Julia Buxton, discussed her recent co-edited collection at the UN Library author talks series.With her co-editors (and former students) Lona Burger, public engagement officer at Canadian Action for …
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25
June
2021
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12:46
Europe/London
Since 2009, the charity Survivors 91直播 has worked in five prisons in the North West to break the silence of the sexual abuse, rape and sexual exploitation of boys and men and empower those affected to move towards positive futures.Through the …
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18
June
2021
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14:02
Europe/London
Marion Vannier’s new book, Normalizing Extreme Imprisonment: the case of life without parole in California, has just been published in the Clarendon Special Series by Oxford University press. Using the development of life without parole (LWOP) …
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18
May
2021
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13:47
Europe/London
Two researchers from the University of Manchester (David Buil-Gil from Criminology and Alexandru Cernat from Social Statistics), alongside Ian Brunton-Smith from Surrey and Jose Pina-Sánchez from Leeds, have secured funding from the Secondary …
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07
April
2021
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15:05
Europe/London
Laura's piece, ‘Good Morning, Vietnam’, explores the enduring and sometimes ridiculed interest in spirits and ghosts. It draws from her time in Japan researching youth crime and the experiments of the late criminologist and …
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12
March
2021
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15:10
Europe/London
Dr Tomáš Diviák from the Department of Criminology and the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis received the Campion grant from the 91直播 Statistical Society for a project called Conspiracy to Corrupt: …
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05
March
2021
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09:59
Europe/London
According to Professor David Gadd, domestic abuse needs to be reframed as an issue that men need to tackle. The UK needs to begin a national dialogue that goes beyond public awareness to a prolonged period of public engagement that …
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2020
04
August
2020
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10:27
Europe/London
The ACMD is an independent body which makes recommendations to government on the control of dangerous or otherwise harmful drugs, including classification and scheduling under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and its …
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2019
30
April
2019
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14:48
Europe/London
‘Reflections on air quality challenges: governance and good health’ was an interdisciplinary piece co-authored by a third-year atmospheric science PhD student, Jessica Slater.
The article was a summary of presentations and …
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28
March
2019
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12:05
Europe/London
A University of Manchester School of Law reader in Criminology has brought his leading knowledge to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Bribery Act 2010.
Dr Nicholas Lord was the principal investigator on a project established in 2016 to …
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22
March
2019
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14:07
Europe/London
Surviving Death Row, a special event presenting the stories of two people whose wrongful convictions cost them a combined 32 years in prison, has proved popular with students and brought home the seriousness of miscarriages of justice.
Organised …
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