Magdalene laundries subjected women and girls to the most excessive abuses. I have always known about them. And I always wanted to know why. This book is a culmination of that project, of that needing to understand. It’s such a privilege to bring it to life with these publishers

Important findings on the experiences of women in multiple low-paid employment project today including public exhibition on Women's Work: The Juggling Act at UofGARC until 8th March See: nuffieldfoundation.org/project/women-…

Just listening to a great talk by guests from the university of Manchester on effects of austerity on life courses Department of Geography Bonn in the cultural geography research group. Thanks for coming to visit Laura Fenton and Santiago Leyva Del Rio!

New CGWG book review is now available online. See Ece Canli 's review of James Kilgore's Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration.

Criminologist Prof Sarah Armstrong giving clear views to Scottish Parliament Criminal Criminal Justice Committee Committee on: ▪️ the factors affecting Scotland's prison population; ▪️ the emergency early release of up to 550 prisoners up to six months early. SCCJR UofG Soc & Pol Sci

Hey #Criminology, If you're attending #BSC2024 @BSC2024Strath then you may be interested in the panel that Prof Dominique Moran 💙, @Spookademic, Kate Herrity and I are doing on #Time and the #Prison. As I failed with uploading the details to programme see details here:

David Scott (2024) Sowing the Seeds for Change: Prison Abolition in Overcrowded Times in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review June 2024 Special Issue on Challenging Prison Policy in Ireland academia.edu/121586443/Sowi…

Wonderful to see this review by Marina Richter of "Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice and the Carceral State," a book that aims for "a more just system that acts in the interest of detained and imprisoned people as well as their families, friends, and communities."

We Need your help! Nominations are now open for Committee and Chair position of the Carceral Geography Working Group. See details here: carceralgeographies.co.uk/carceral-geogr…

On September 1st, my friend Holly Story and I will be running a 10k to fundraise for a new bereavement suite at Liverpool Women's Hospital, in memory of my and Joe's twins. If you can spare a bit of money, it would be gratefully received! justgiving.com/page/alice-iev…

‼️NEXT WEEK! Alice Ievins Alice Ievins will be joining us to present her paper on 'The limits of reform: Punishment & Sexual Offending'. 🗓️Wed 28th | 4pm | Zoom 🔻Register bit.ly/3SWNNO0

This isnt religion or culture its terrorism against women. Afghan women & girls need global support in seeking refuge where is it?

🚨PLEASE RT❗️ If you are interested in prison research this online workshop is for you. Join us on Wed at 4pm UK time. #prisonresearch #criminology #justice #prisons #penality #globalsouth

Going to 2025 American Association of Geographers in Detroit? Here's the CFP of a paper session I've co-organized on "Decolonial Geographies of Climate Change" with Miriam Gay-Antaki & co-sponsored by Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group CAPE AAG AAG Development Geographies Specialty Group. Abstracts due 10/31. Please share onwards. Thanks! #AAG2025

Really important article by George Monbiot. Has a link to our research on the disbelief faced by people with energy limiting conditions. To find out more, visit our website disbeliefdisregard.uk or read the report disbeliefdisregard.uk/wp-content/upl… University of Liverpool News

Great postdoc opportunity with my terrific co-author Alex De Juan at Osnabrueck University, Germany. 3+3 years, fully funded. If you're working on political violence and/or authoritarian politics you should apply! Details: uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/s…

Job alert: I am looking for 2 collaborators for my new consolidator project "Decades of Peace" at the University of Zurich IPZ - Political Science UZH funded by Swiss National Science Foundation. Please help me find them. PhD position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:e32a7b… Postdoc position: ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:94e1a4…

A renowned sociology professor emeritus at UC Berkeley was killed in a hit-and-run this week. huffpost.com/entry/uc-berke… via HuffPost So sad. Lovely tribute.

On International Women’s Day, Let’s Not Forget the Ezidi Women Still in Captivity Today, as millions around the world celebrate International Women’s Day, Ezidi women remain missing—held in captivity, tortured, and abused by 1S1S. While others speak of progress and empowerment,

Today, at the Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day in Berlin, I shared some of my observations from 10 months working with #MSF in the world’s largest refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangldesh— where we are reaching a critical point. A 🧵 #IStandWithRohingya