The UK Festival Awards has announced that it will present this year’s Outstanding Contribution to Festivals Award to Professor Fiona Measham. Throughout her 30-year academic career – beginning at King’s College, Cambridge and most recently as Chair in Criminology at the University of Liverpool – Fiona’s work has been shaped by her passion for music and dance culture.
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2020, for the week leading up to IWD (Sunday 8th March) we will be spotlighting a different female colleague in the School of Law and Social Justice each day on our news stories page.
Speaking to a busy audience made up of students and staff at the University of Liverpool in October 2019, academic Malik Al Nasir, who is also a spoken word performance poet – Malik & The O.G’s, - delivered a seminar and recital entitled ‘Artists as Activists’. During the seminar, Malik discussed how colonialism and slavery destroy identity and disrupt the historical transition of cultural self-awareness for the black Diaspora from generation to generation.
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2020, for the week leading up to IWD (8th March) we will be spotlighting a different female colleague in the School of Law and Social Justice each day on our news stories page.
Expressions of Interest are invited from outstanding early career researchers for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. Tenable for 3 years, the Fellowship will cover the salary costs of the fellow plus £6,000 of research expenses over the three years. Interested applicants are invited to submit Expressions of Interest to the School Research Team by Monday 24 August 2020.
Published today (30 October 2020), this book features Prof Barry Goldson's research and represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality, and it makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of comparative criminology.
A new research report, 'Making Youth Justice: Local penal cultures and differential outcomes – lessons and prospects for policy and practice', written by Professor Barry Goldson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Liverpool and Dr Damon Briggs, Head of Curriculum at Frontline, will launch via Zoom on Tuesday 30 March 2021 (4 - 5.15pm).
To understand police-related deaths in the US, we need to understand the structures and systems that enable police to operate in the way they do. Giving voice to a previously unheard group in society, this book articulates the experiences of the families of those who died after police contact.
As part of its commitment to nurturing international research partnerships, the School of Law and Social Justice is inviting applications for incoming International Visiting Research Fellowships. The scheme aims to attract academics from outside of the UK to develop or extend collaborations with existing staff and/or research clusters within the School. In line with our Internationalisation Strategy, we are particularly interested in establishing and enhancing sustainable and inclusive collaborations with academics in the global south.
Professor Susan Pickard, as Principal Investigator (PI), has been successful in securing £1.1 million in funding from the ESRC UKRI. Susan will lead a three year, multi-national interdisciplinary project, starting in September 2022, entitled 'Understanding the varied experiences of frailty in older age with respect to ethnicity: a mixed methods approach'.
A new report has found video appointments to more effective in cases involving victims of domestic abuse, highlighting improved communication, engagement, and safeguarding as key factors.
Melissa Brodie, a third-year Sociology student at the University of Liverpool, has had her essay published by The British Sociological Association (BSA) Everyday Society.
The University of Liverpool undergraduate Class of 2023 will be celebrating their achievements from Monday 17 – Friday 21 July at a number of graduation ceremonies held at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall with ticketed graduation receptions taking place at a marquee on Abercromby Square.
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At the start of the 2022-23 academic year, the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology launched a pilot for a 60-credit year-long alternative to the standard MA Dissertation called SOCI530: Extended Interchange Project.
New research isolates impact of alcohol sold in shops and supermarkets on violence, including domestic violence.
On Wednesday, 5 February 2025, Paul Walmsley gave a presentation for SLSJ Extra. It was no ordinary talk - challenging and inspiring students and academics alike. Paul spoke of his highly unconventional road to becoming a Research Fellow in Children's Rights, and Co-Founder of the Social Brokers CCE.
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