40 fully funded PhD scholarships available at @UCL for students from any country via the new Research Excellence Scholarship scheme https://t.co/xw2Go3dmmf Deadline Jan 13th. @DrZoeWaller@profgeraintrees @duncancraigucl #phdchat
We have a new chapter out now in Policing & Firearms: New Perspective and Insights. @JuliaYesberg and @ben1971b find that trust, political orientation and ethnicity are the strongest predictors of reactions to armed police
For the @guardian, Dr @kriszposch@UCLCrimeScience@UCLEngineering analysed pilot data from the Met Police on the ethnicity of drivers stopped by officers, finding that police disproportionally stop black drivers
https://t.co/kOHdSQIobk
Looking for a new challenge?
Want to help us work for less crime, safer communities and fewer people in prison?
There is still time to apply for our Policy Manager vacancy, but hurry - the deadline is this Sunday (18 September).
https://t.co/3nXCldT341
The deadline for nominations for this year's Howard League Community Awards has been extended to Tuesday 9 August.
Here is a blogpost from our Chief Executive, Andrea Coomber, announcing the change: https://t.co/pfmrw6Qta5
Want to help us work for less crime, safer communities and fewer people in prison?
Come and join our team...
We have four vacancies:
*Legal Director
*Youth Justice Policy Manager
*Communications Coordinator
*Operations Coordinator
Find out more: https://t.co/uPVYteWZkA
Among other insights, @jacksojp and @ben1971b challenge the ultimate conceptualization of legitimacy that flows from our work asking what a “healthy governance relationship” really is.
https://t.co/4IWxvcYsrm
73% of searches in April 2021 to March 2022 resulted in no further action. In the past two years, the proportion of searches leading to a formal outcome has remained largely constant.
Nominations are now open for the 2022 Howard League Community Awards!
The Community Awards are presented annually to the country’s most successful community projects encouraging desistance from crime.
Find out more: https://t.co/vwoL87xoP1
⭐️Congratulations to former OxHRH Managing Editor @__RichardMartin on his monograph, Policing Human Rights: Law, Narratives, & Practice, being shortlisted for the prestigious @SLSA_UK Book Prize for Early Career Academics! ⭐️
New paper from Zoe Hobson @JuliaYesberg and me looking at the preventative effect of knife imagery in media campaigns. TL;DR no effect, really, but they do make people think of death. https://t.co/Gfbj93x7r1
Gun related homicide in the US is almost 19 times higher than in the UK
A reasonable hypothesis?
Two words: gun culture
Check out this seminar that explains why, where & how 👇🏼 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Register for our upcoming seminar in the London Policing Seminar Series Autumn 2021 'Global perspectives on policing and legitimacy' with Dr Justice Tankebe, Dr Layla Skinns, and Dr Thiago R Oliveira on 12 October 2021, 1400-1600. Register below:
https://t.co/dQBD4GhWCg