Dr Mark is a really good teacher. When I was doing my PhD, I attended his R/statistics lectures as an SPSS user, and thanks to those lectures my switch to R has been less painful 😁

Children are at most risk of entering the youth justice system due to vulnerabilities, victimisation, trauma, and unmet needs.

The responsibility for reducing this risk sits with adults, not children.

Registration for VISION's annual conference is now live. Violence prevention in research and policy: Bridging silos. 11 June, Great Hall, Kings College London, Strand campus. Free and in person only. Join us! vision.city.ac.uk/vision-annual-…

VISION annual conference news: Katrin Hohl, City, UoL, is one of our keynote speakers & will highlight why sexual violence prevention is doubly marginalised in policing and policing research& a potential way forward. Register at vision.city.ac.uk/vision-annual-… Prof Katrin Hohl City, University of London

Reminder that @Understanding_Desistance_&_Rehabilitation and I, UoNSociology, are recruiting two #PostDoc Research Fellows for a The Leverhulme Trust funded project on #Desistance and racialised minority groups.

Closing date: 24/05/24

#Criminology
#Sociology
#Law
#PhDChat

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHH537/res…

Who is going to be our new colleague?

Our research group on 'Offenders' at the NSCR.nl is looking for a new researcher (with research experience after your PhD)!
One more week to apply, for more information see:
academictransfer.com/nl/339939/rese…

Tomorrow on the podcast, Keith Humphreys and Jerry Ratcliffe have a wide-ranging discussion... including on the new politics of science and journal article reviews. Snippet below... 👇

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A fully funded PhD supervised by my colleague Dr Kari Davies and Professor Miranda Horvath 'Understanding threat, risk, and harm in the policing of suspects of sex offences' bournemouth.ac.uk/study/courses/…. Please share Matt Ashby Gavin Hales Iain @routineactivity Mark Brown

“Social sciences and the humanities have never been more necessary. They give shape and meaning and so the core of what the academy does will be to make that case.” Professor Rana Mitter, British Academy vice-president for public engagement in today's Guardian culture

William Shakespeare after a trip to Turkey (1610)

🔥 New PPR research available now! See post below for link 📷

Dr. Laura Huey

Congratulations to Jason Warr on winning the prestigious Radzinowicz Prize!
The prize is awarded by the BJC to honour the greatest contribution to criminology published by the journal.

Read all the Radzinowicz Prize-winning papers for free here: oxford.ly/3UrX9lO

Ever published a book that sells for a bit but then stops (‘cos publisher is no longer promoting it in any way)?
Ever tried to get the publisher to make that book open access?
Did you have to pay them & how much?

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Hope your day is as beautiful as you are…
which would be impossible.

a preprint correlates with a significant positive citation advantage of about 20.2% on average….sharing data in an online repository correlates with a smaller yet still positive citation advantage of 4.3% on average. However, not a significant citation advantage for sharing code

An interesting thread 🧵 worth a read

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📽️ Producing this #animation was a really rewarding part of my ADR UK fellowship!

📊 We want more people to know how their #data is used in #research to improve public services & #policy .

📣 So please share, & feel free to use the video as an explainer for your own work too!

Is London dangerous? A masterclass here from Matt Ashby

Does anyone know of a good example in psychology or education that applies Welch’s t-test and/or Glass’ delta effect size to analyze group differences?

I've been searching for a while but I only seem to find methodological studies.