Let me tell you more about "Qualitative research in criminology. Cutting-Edge methods", edited by Mary Dodge and myself, and published by Springer Criminology. A thread 👇👇👇

Even England's police want to decriminalise hard drugs – but our posturing politicians won’t listen theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Cannabis Patriot 🌱 🇺🇸 🌻Bri 🇺🇦(She/her) Here's why, they have other agendas

Thank you Jessica Williamson W.E.L.Safe CIC Dr Oliver Sutcliffe for a great first panel today @MMUSociology Social Science Futures day. Especially lovely to have our fab ex-student Jessica Williamson speaking to our students about her PhD on festivals & harm reduction

Booking is now open for our Shaping Scotland’s Drug Policy Conference! Speakers from across the UK & Europe will join us to examine the valuable lessons learned from responding to drug-related issues & we will look ahead to emerging themes & challenges. sdf.org.uk/event/shaping-…

Congratulations to Jessica Williamson who is CriminologyUoM's TA of the Year and Oliver Hulmes who has won the First Year TA award. Thank you for all of your hard work and thanks to all of our other fantastic TAs too. #criminology #teaching

Jessica Williamson was described as "confident, extremely knowledgeable...creates a welcoming and non-judgemental teaching environment. Her ability to think on her feet, linking what the students said to what had been covered on the course especially theory, was outstanding”

Was an absolute pleasure to talk at University of Sussex tonight on drug prohibition as a tool of racial & social control. Thanks to Simon Flacks for the invitation. Finished on this pic! Reminding ppl #nicepeopletakedrugs & that drug laws & stigma kill.

Incredibly honoured and grateful to have been awarded the Teaching Assistant of the Year Award for the Department of Criminology at the University of Manchester manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/…

People who enjoy using state approved psychoactive drugs don't have their security of person & bodily integrity violated. Important to realise it doesn't happen to people who use drugs - we all use drugs - it happens to people who use substances the state refuses to approve!

Book publication day! My new book, Rethinking Drug Laws, is finally out. And you can listen to a brand new podcast episode to hear all about it... tobyseddon.com/2023/07/27/10-…

A quick read on solidarity - especially by the #cannabis and #psychedelic advocates that are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of drug user oppression. People who use heroin, meth, MD, weed, crack, fent, must all be free. Together. talkingdrugs.org/only-drug-user…

International Network of People who Use Drugs produce new resource "Harm Reduction Best and Worst Practices" written by Cheryl White and Dr Russell Newcombe from 3DResearch based on in-depth interviews 20 drug user activists around the world. #peerworks #harmreduction inpud.net/harm-reduction…

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 Why Criminalising Nitrous oxide is a mistake "just as expert opinion is pivoting towards proven decrim models & public health pragmatism, this Govt appears determined to double down on the political theatre of ‘get tough’ drug policing" transformdrugs.org/blog/why-crimi…

It was an absolute pleasure to have been invited to present on a panel alongside W.E.L.Safe CIC and MANDRAKE at MMUs Social Science Futures event to discuss harm reduction in the night time economy & music festivals

Welcome to all new and returning students on the Law and Criminology programmes! If you're new to Manchester, I'm afraid this weather looks set in. Probably til June.

There was a fantastic lineup of University of Manchester criminologists at the European Society of Criminology conference this year #EUROCRIM2023

This year I had the fantastic opportunity to present my PhD findings on festival entrance policing in Florence at the European Society of Criminology Conference European Society of Criminology #EUROCRIM2023

This year I had the fantastic opportunity to attend the European Society for Social Drug Research (ESSD) conference in Copenhagen and give a presentation on the limitations and implications of enforcing drug policy through entrance searching at music festivals.

It was great to meet other researchers conducting groundbreaking research on drugs, drug markets and drug policy at the European Society for Social Drug Research (ESSD) conference. I was also blown away to have been awarded the ESSD Early Career Researcher Award 2023!