Is your PhD study focussed on vulnerability and policing? Do you want to discuss contentious topics and connect with other PhDs who work in this field? Do you want to learn new skills when conducting research with vulnerable groups? Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Come to our launch event ⬇️⬇️

If you’re a PhD student then join us for the launch of our international Vulnerability and Policing PhD Network 🗓️ 12 March 🕤 9.30am - 11.30am GMT 📍 Online Register below 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/vulnerability-…

Do you want my job? Now is the chance! Come to York and replace me at the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre . You will get to work with a brilliant group of like-minded researchers, and with a very supportive leadership team. They all come with my highest recommendation! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

📢Calling all drugs researchers in the UK! Two of my brilliant former colleagues from Denmark are coming to Manchester to speak about psychedelics at this exciting seminar. Do not miss out! eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nuances-… Eventbrite

⌛️ There are two weeks left to apply for the position of Research Associate for Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre. Location: University of York campus Salary: £36,024 - £44,263 a year Apply by 07/05/2024 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/resear…

Taking place at 9.30am (UK time), 23 May, this event is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to reflect on how your own research may use 'vulnerability' and to hear from fellow PhD students about their experiences with this topic. Register below 👇

Young people involved in drug markets are increasingly framed as victims of criminal exploitation rather than as offenders, explains Tobias Kammersgaard. This present dilemmas for 👮🏼, that must assess if the individual is in need of safeguarding measures or criminal justice response.

📣 CALLING NORDIC PhD STUDENTS IN CRIMINOLOGY! 📣 Our 2024 PhD seminar will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, November 6-7. More info below. Application DL: August 31st. #criminology #nordiccriminology nsfk.org/activities/phd…

Rusmiddelforskning is hosting this year's PhD seminar by the Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK) If you are a PhD fellow and interested in criminology and criminal justice issues in a Scandinavian context please take a look at this call for participants

Last week we hosted our first ever ECR writing retreat at the beautiful Wortley Hall thanks to generous contributions of ECR funding from Anglia Ruskin University and British Criminology

⌛️ There’s still time to register for our PhD Summer School! PhD students will present their research and offer reflections on conducting research with 'vulnerable' people. 🕥 10.30am-12.30pm (UK time) 🗓️ Thursday 4th and Friday 5th July 2024 📍 Online docs.google.com/forms/d/1TUJeO…

Tobias Kammersgaard with the second presentation on our Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre project on County Lines, exploring the changing and complex ways in which victim and offenders are categorised and why. Some important questions throughout this panel in relation to gaining and losing victim status.

📣 I’m excited to announce that I’ve started a new position as Assistant Professor at the Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research at Aarhus University, where I will continue doing research on drug policy and policing. It’s great to be back, but will also miss good people in the UK!

Our recent blog post TalkingDrugs analyses how “non-enforcement zones” around Copenhagen's drug consumption rooms have led to positive interactions between police and people using drugs, but also ongoing criminalization of vulnerable individuals. 🇩🇰🚓 talkingdrugs.org/denmarks-drug-…

🚨"Harm Reduction policing" presents itself as a new alternative to prohibition. Yet Denmark highlights how it maintains prohibition, with limited benefits for those using, selling or sharing drugs. ✍️ @tkammersgaard & Esben Houborg talkingdrugs.org/denmarks-drug-…

“In our interviews, several people who use drugs spoke of how the new DCR brought with it a new relationship with the police. As one man told us: “It is a bit funny, and it takes some getting used to,” talkingdrugs.org/denmarks-drug-… by Tobias Kammersgaard & Esben Houborg for TalkingDrugs