Event: The True Crimes Behind Crime Fiction Join Ali Fraser, Hannah Graham, and Helen FitzGerald at Aye Write in Glasgow on Thurs. glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/helen-… Alistair Fraser Hannah Graham @FitzHelen

Here's a magic wee film (and thread) about our project on youth and violence reduction in Scotland and London... huge thanks to all involved SCCJR Keir Irwin-Rogers Fern Gillon Luke Billingham Tim Newburn susan mcvie Will Linden

22 years ago Glasgow Uni accepted me with lower grades than needed because of a widening access policy. My Dad, a teacher, was forever impressed. He didn’t live to see it but today they promoted me to Professor. This one’s for you Paw Broon, your hand at my back X

Yesterday I dropped a wee note into what I thought was a cupboard. But it turns out that, like Narnia, it opens at the back and the message has travelled far & wide. Thank you one and all for your heartfelt & joyous replies. They brought Dad back. I am overwhelmed X

This week I passed the wheel of the good ship SCCJR to the fantastic Julie Berg Huge thanks to all aboard these past years esp Rach Cobain @KarynMabon, our amazing Management Committee & wider community It has been an honour & a privilege, good luck on the next leg X

New PHYVR blog: Scotland’s young people demonstrate success in violence reduction: changingviolence.org/blog/scotlands… "Policies such as the increased Scottish Child Payment and the ambition to build a trauma informed workforce across Scotland are essential." By susan mcvie

Buzzing to be chairing this event with three incredible writers tomorrow - come one come all! Graeme Armstrong K Patrick glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/granta…

New paper just out with the wonderful Karen Laidler HKU Sociology on youth, illicit work and the gig economy in Hong Kong. Free and open access here: academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-ar…

🩸 👨 🥊 Don’t forget we’ve got Michael Winkler and Alistair Fraser in store tonight to chat all things Grimmish. Free tix available here or rock up at 7pm 🥊 🥊 🥊 mountfloridabooks.com/products/micha…

Looking forward to reading the latest article from Alistair Fraser and Fern Gillon in Theoretical Criminology - The Glasgow Miracle - Storytelling, Violence Reduction and Public Policy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11….

New work just out from our Public Health, Youth & Violence Reduction study of violence reduction in the UK, with the wonderful Fern Gillon - on the power of storytelling in public policy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

📕My first book "Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life. Henri Lefebvre and the U.S. City" has been published with Palgrave Macmillan Now available as an ebook, hard & softcover here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… What is it about? A🧵

🗣️New Research Report! 'Safe Space? The past, present and future of violence reduction in Scotland' summarises the evidence-base on violence reduction in Scotland and highlights key lessons for other jurisdictions. 📄 Final Report: bit.ly/3O10wfS

🗣️New PHYVR Research and Policy Report out today! 'Safe Space? The past, present and future of violence reduction in Scotland' Addressing: (1) What has changed?; (2) Why did it change?; (3) Where are we now; and (4) Where do we go from here? sccjr.ac.uk/publication/sa…

And a new study shows that progress is slowing on reducing violence in Scotland because of a lack of safe spaces for young people. I visited G20 Youth Project in Glasgow’s Maryhill to see what one looks like in action: amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/j…

Another plenary for #BSC2024 conference: *Criminology and public problems* A double bill headline act with Alister Fraser Alistair Fraser and Richard Sparks.

Great piece in The @Guardian by Libby Brooks, highlighting key findings & implications from the PHYVR project: theguardian.com/society/2024/f… VRUs 'have prevented an estimated 3,220 hospital admissions for violent injury since they were introduced' -- but serious challenges remain.

This emotive and eloquent essay stopped me in my tracks, the importance of this type of work is so stark, particularly at this moment, ‘the direct descendant of collective silence is collective forgetting’. A must listen

I made wee feature for BBC Radio 3 on the forgotten cinemas of Glasgow, from the Cosmo to the Black Cat Huge thanks to @gordonbarr ScottishCinemas.org GFT Offline Robbie Armstrong a total joy bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

.UofG Social Sciences researchers @nasarmeer, Alistair Fraser & Ellen Stewart will play a crucial role in a £1million University of Strathclyde study on the impact of Scotland's justice system on public health, funded by CSO(Health)Scotland. More: gla.ac/3WA3ZFO