British Society of Criminology @britishcriminology.bsky.social 
Brunel University Criminology @brunelcriminology.bsky.social Welcome to the Brunel University of London Criminology Bluesky account! Here we share information on our research, teaching, and all things related to our team!
Citizens Advice South Worcestershire @advicesworcs.bsky.social Free, confidential, independent & impartial advice. Offices in Malvern, Evesham, & Droitwich.
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Centre for Health Policy @centrehealthpolicy.bsky.social The new BlueSky home of The University of Strathclyde's Centre for Health Policy, led by ProfKatSmith.bsky.social and Lee Knifton
https://tinyurl.com/ynvf2hj8- eventbrite for book launch
www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/centreforhealthpolicy
Tim Newburn @timnewburn.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Social Policy, LSE. Living with cancer. Health means some reorientation of priorities. Still music (selections from the back catalogue - gigs whenever possible), criminology and Everton FC. MD ANT
Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social Professor of Quantitative Criminology and co-director of the Social Research Methods centre at the University of Leeds. Interested in #Cars&Crime #OpenResearch #Measurement #CriminalJustice #Sentencing #Disparities.
jmpinasanchez.github.io/
Andrew Percy @prof-andy.bsky.social Prof Quantitative Criminology QUB.
Interested in things like adolescent alcohol and drug use; cyber- victimisation and harm; prevention; latent variable modeling & longitudinal research. Aresnal Champions 2026!!
Edinburgh Napier University @edinburghnapier.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of Edinburgh Napier University.
bit.ly/EdNapier
#MustBeNapier | #ENUDifferenceMakers
Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own
Shane Horgan @drshanehorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Edinburgh Napier University.
Associate Director, Scottish Institute for Policing Research
Liviu Alexandrescu @liviualexandrescu.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in criminology @Manchester Metropolitan University. Mainly interested in social/criminological theory, media/culture and critical drug studies. Views expressed my own.
Henry Yeomans @henryyeomans.bsky.social Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
Colm Walsh @violencestudies.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Criminology) Queen’s University Belfast. Research youth crime, violence, interventions.
Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com Academic/Writer
Books with
Cornell Univ Press, Univ California Press, Temple UP & McGill-Queen's UP.
Editor, International Social Science Journal (Wiley/UNESCO) & Sociology Compass
A gay man 🏳️🌈
www.bariscaylimessina.com
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social The School of Law @universityofleeds.bsky.social is one of the leading law schools in the UK and has been providing instruction in law since its inception in 1899.
Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social Sociology Prof (social psyc, methodology, and some demography!). Usually thinking about food, sexualities, masculinities, and sneakers. 🏳️⚧️
He/they/them/him
NOLA/France
Yvonne Jewkes @yvonnejewkes.bsky.social Criminologist. Memoirist @ScribeUKbooks. Writer in Residence HMP Grendon and HMP Rye Hill. Creative writing tutor Freedom to Write. Agent Eleanor Birne @rcwlitagency
https://linktr.ee/YvonneJewkes
The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org Educational charity. Peer-reviewed sociology journal, public sociology magazine, podcasts, Connected Sociologies teaching resources, ECR opportunities.
https://www.thesociologicalreview.org
Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social Sociologist of morality, social & organizational change and spirituality. Author of The Loyalty Trap on civil servants' experiences under Trump, The Mindful Elite and Situating Spirituality. Learning about climate action. Mom juggling it all.
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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David Cook Martín @dcm19.bsky.social Political sociologist. International migration. Temporary labor migration. Race and ethnicity. Citizenship. Futbol
Prof Andy Newton @profanewton.bsky.social Professor of Criminology & Policing, Co-Director Safety & Sustainability @NTU | Academic Advisor to Notts Violence Reduction Partnership | Interests: crime, policing, transport, violence prevention, policy evaluation | data science | problem solving | EBP
Ben D. @bdcj98.bsky.social Dad|Doctoral Researcher (Government/Public Administration) Criminal Justice, American History degrees🎣💦🥾🎸
Claire Fitzpatrick @clairefitzpatrick.bsky.social Reader in Criminology. Interested in care experience, youth justice, prisons, gender, pathways through care & justice systems. Tweets are my own views.
Fergus McNeill @fergusmcneill.bsky.social Criminologist interested mainly in punishment, rehabilitation and reintegration… increasingly explored via creative methods. Also a singer-songwriter, when I can find the time.
Vickie Barrett @vickiebarrett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Huddersfield University.
ADR UK Research Fellow.
Interested in punitiveness (CJS, education, welfare), policy, school exclusions and offending.
Ex-probation officer and school teacher.
Guanyu Jason Ran @guanyujasonran.bsky.social He is doing some kind of academic stuff. Living towards a higher state of entropy. 🤷♂️💩🫵👨🏫🕺🌈
Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward https://bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War https://bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast
Heather Proctor @heatherproctor.bsky.social PhD researcher working on (mixed-)race, memory, heritage, colonialism, and popular culture in the UK context, at Newcastle University. Frequently yawning.
Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social Professor, sociologist, criminologist, TheSocietyPages editor. Nerdy but sturdy. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8c95RVAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Megan Tobias Neely @megantobiasneely.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology @Colorado.Edu. Author of #HedgedOut (http://tinyurl.com/Hedged-Out) & #Divested (http://tinyurl.com/Divested-Book)
Scott Kidd @criminologykidd.bsky.social Criminology Lecturer, specialising in belonging for justice-experienced individuals in higher education , violence in rural and coastal areas, antisocial behavior, and tackling criminal justice inequalities. LE 11.5yrs of the CJS
Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social Sociologist @ Hunter College, CUNY. Author of Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times https://tinyurl.com/bdep3r4a and Approaches to Mixed Methods Research https://tinyurl.com/4xpbbbt8. she/her | queer | radical, apparently
Leona Mydlowski @drleonamydlowski.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Policing. Interested in Criminal Law, international Criminal Law, sexual offences, management of sexual offenders, public Protection and safeguarding 😊😊✌️✌️
Smalls @smalls.bsky.social Law Librarian | OSINT | Privacy Advocate | Competitive Intelligence
“A soul is of more value than work or gold” - George Mellor
I care about the truth.
Follows/Reposts do not necessarily equal Endorsement
Uzair Ahmed @uzaahm.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at Center for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo @crexuio.bsky.social @statsvitenskap.bsky.social. Sociologist working on the racialisation of Muslims. Interested in racialisation, islamophobia, radicalisation and extremism.
Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, co-Director @bordercrim.bsky.social, writes about immigration detention and deportation.
Patti Thomas @patti-thomas.bsky.social Patricia A. Thomas, PhD
Assoc Prof of Sociology at Purdue. I study social relationships, social position, and health across the life course.
Former postdoc at UT Austin, PhD Duke, BA Cal State Fullerton.
She/her. 🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?u
Matthew O. Hunt @mohunt.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University. Father, husband, swimmer, wannabe-chef. Alum of Miami University and Indiana University. Views my own.
Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social Sociologist & demographer at Brown University. I study the political & structural drivers of population health.
Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own
#Liverpool #YNWA 🇵🇸🇾🇪
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
Taylor Brooks @taylorbrooks.bsky.social PhD in Sociology •• Researching: immigration, media, emotions, voice, racism, food justice •• critical discourse analysis •• linguistics •• 🏳️🌈
Matt Donoghue @drdonoghue.bsky.social Political economy of the welfare state. Politics of social citizenship. Dynamics of resilience and cohesion. European society and politics. Ideas and discourse.
Ireland, UK & Europe
Assistant Professor of Social Policy, UCD
Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social Emeritus Prof (criminology) @open-university.bsky.social, trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social, love @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social Justice after Grenfell? Marx, Spurs, Reggae, Gramsci, The Clash, Social Harm, Luxemburg (Rosa)- not necessarily in that order
Maria Helen Murphy @mariamurphy.bsky.social Associate Professor at Maynooth University. Technology Law & Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, AI, Media Law.
🐦@maria_h_murphy
Cian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social Lectures criminal law, policing & criminology @ Maynooth University
Research: policing, media, crime, legitimacy & trust, power & resistance
Views personal
Sé/é
Dublin via da Banner
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/cian-concubhair
Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
Rebecca Coleman @rcecoleman.bsky.social Professor @bdfi.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social and Sociology. Bristol, UK. Researcher in Residence (2023-2025) @knowlewestmedia.bsky.social
Digital media and culture, futures and presents, affect, interdisciplinary methods.
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Dr Kajsa Dinesson @dinesson.bsky.social Lecturer in law, University of York. Criminal law, criminal process, and evidence; some mental health. Primarily working on terror-law/policy and discretion: 'Criminalizing Terrorism' forthcoming with OUP.
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social Sociology prof & author: Sexuality, relationships/behavior/identity gender; qual; Co-Chair CCF; editor CCF blog; Psych Today blogger🩷💜💙 #Resist
#AcademicSky #Dateline
#Sociology
#sexresearch
Edinburgh Napier University - Teacher Education @enuteachered.bsky.social The Teacher Education team at Edinburgh Napier University 
Angharad Beckett FAcSS, FRSA @angharadbeckett.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology & Social Inclusion, University of Leeds (UK). Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Disability and Social Justice (www.ijdsj.online). Human Rights | Open Science | Social Innovation | Kindness. Lover of cake. She/her.
Critical Criminology @critcrim.bsky.social Working Group for insurgent criminology. Publishers of the open access journal: Radical Criminology (& THOUGHT|CRIMES Press). #AbolishThePolice #DefundThePolice
Dawn T Robinson @sodawn.bsky.social Sociologist at the University of Georgia. Social psychology, sociology of emotion, group processes, social networks.
Erin Fanning Madden, PhD, MPH @efanningmadden.bsky.social Substance use, stigma, & harm reduction researcher in Detroit. Also interested in qual methods, racism, immigration, & access to care. Sociologist working in a med school. Views are my own. She/her
Rosaleen O’Brien @drrosaleenobrien.bsky.social Freelance Qualitative & Health Services Research Consultant based in Scotland (former academic Medical Sociologist). Health experiences and evaluating health/ social care interventions & services| Website: https://rosaleenobrienresearch.com
Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social It’s pronounced Shay-On-Tay! Asst. Prof of Sociology & AAAS at Dartmouth! I study Black People, Black Political Activism/Resistance, & Black Religion! #Jesus ✝️ #BLM ✊🏾 #ΖφΒ 💙 #SocAF ✨
Seattle 🌲☔️ ➡️ New England/NH🌲🍁
www.Linktree.com/ShaontaTheSociologist
Daniela Mardones-Bravo @danielamarbrav.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology MMU @manmetcrimsoc.bsky.social and Researcher at @mmuperu.bsky.social
Older people/Prisons /online methods. Chilean, living in Scotland, working in England.
she/her
More stuff here: linktr.ee/danielamarbrav
Nathan Manning @natemanning.bsky.social Sociologist working on university education and right-wing populism, political emotions and young citizens. University of Adelaide, all views my own. Co-Editor Emotions & Society (BUP) - https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/emsoc/emsoc-o
Licheng Qian @lichengqian.bsky.social Lecturer at Birmingham City University, UK | PhD from University of Virginia | Cultural/Historical/Political/Global Sociology, Memory, China, East Asia
Lyndsay McDade @lyndsaymcdade.bsky.social Fearless Scotland Manager
Crimestoppers
Empowering young people to speak up about crime 100% anonymously at Fearless.org
R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com Criminologist based in Ireland.
Author of Trying to Make It.
Music enthusiast.
https://ravejudgerun.com
Jon Garland @jongarland.bsky.social Criminologist at Surrey University, researching hate crime, prisons, policing. Norwich City fan. Ageing mod
Lolly True Crime @lollytruecrime.bsky.social Professional True Crime researcher & writer specialising in unsolved UK crime. Assisting a private investigation team on cases and blogging. No porn, No Crypto scams thanks. From England, Married. Escaped from X
Global Prisoners’ Families @familyjustice.bsky.social Global Prisoners’ Families seeks to draw together academics from across the world to explore the ways in which the criminal legal system impacts families on a local and global scale ⚖️
www.law.ox.ac.uk/global-prisoners-families/global-prisoners-families
Judith Green @judegreen.bsky.social London, UK. Sociologist at University of Exeter. Medical sociology; critical public health; academic publishing; methods, esp qualitative; mobility & transport; equity. Co-editor Journal of Critical Public Health. And here for random stuff.
Gemma Morgan @gemmorgan.bsky.social Associate Professor of Criminology at Swansea University. Fulbright Scholar 23/24. Social justice, desistance, digital inclusion, youth justice, co-design & evaluations.
Julie Berg @juliemberg.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at the University of Glasgow | Scottish Centre of Crime and Justice Research | Research on new harmscapes and everyday security governance
Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer and Programme Leader of Criminology at Bournemouth University. #Quantitative #Criminology, #Victimology, #Policing… Personal account
https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/ftura
Dr Hannah Farrimond @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social Stigma and stigma theory; drugs and pharmaceutical cultures; addiction; tobacco, vaping, alcohol, cannabis, psychedelics; sociology of health/biomed; social impacts of brain injury; Associate Professor,
University of Exeter, UK
Criminology, policing and social sciences ENU @socscinapier.bsky.social Welcome to the account of the criminology, policing and social sciences team at Edinburgh Napier University. Home of @the-sipr.bsky.social, member of @thesccjr.bsky.social, @bordercrim.bsky.social, and the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships.
Kirstin Anderson @kir-anderson.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University. I'm interested in education in prisons, arts and justice, public health and criminal justice and prison abolition. Ask me about prisoner made magazines.(Embroidery image in banner by Sarah K. Benning)
Martin Geissler @mmgeissler.bsky.social Radio, TV and podcast presenter with BBC Scotland.
Hearts fan.
Representing Border @representingborder.bsky.social ITV Border's political programme, with all the stories from Holyrood and Westminster that matter to the South of Scotland. 
bri @sidequestbri.com disabled & queer graphic designer creating digital loot for gamers & roleplayers #TTRPG pfp art by @tsurudraws.art
bri@sidequestdesigns.com
Silverlion (Tim Kirk) @silverlion.bsky.social Artist, best friend to dogs, novelist, TTRPG game creator, and big superheroic fiction fan.
Hearts & Souls: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3310/Hearts--Souls 2E is coming soon though!
High Valor: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/82385/High-Va
Bull @bulldrek.bsky.social Steven "Bull" Ratkovich, ally, former Shadowrun Missions Developer, writer, gamer, geek, anti-MAGA. Pronouns are He/Him.
#Disabled, and disability sucks. Always need help. https://gofund.me/120ac4276
Storyteller Steve @vancitybynight.bsky.social Storyteller for Vancouver by Night, https://linktr.ee/vancitybynight
Harper @harpoon--gun.bsky.social hi im harper and i like stuff! | 25 | ♋ | they/them, ne/nym, he/him | disgaybled | artist, writer, and game dev
Alyssa, Trans Goth Wine Aunt @damwaingames.itch.io I am Alyssa, a queer (transfemme alloace) game designer who writes structured freeforms, narrative RPGs, storygames and game poems 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (She/They) Xennial.
https://damwaingames.carrd.co/
PFP by @carminedeville.bsky.social
Patrick Perini @pcperini.com Award winning storyteller
Showrunner @uepodca.st
Making Sprites w/ @threesailsstudios.bsky.social (2027)
https://pcperini.com
Trying to be kind.
Banner by @mudron.bsky.social
Amledo @amledo.bsky.social Writer, Vampire: the Masquerade is my current playground RP character: Hamish Holmes, Ventrue, 10th generation. Sleep Token my musical drug of choice. (they/them) banner by @qu33n-of-lies
Thursday Garreau @keftiu.bsky.social 31 / (she/her) / ttrpgs like Feathers, HARDCASE: https://thursday-garreau.itch.io
/ married / blog at: https://injectorseat.wordpress.com / support my WIPs: patreon.com/user?u=216570 / inquire garreaugames@gmail.com
Valkavian @qu33n-of-lies.bsky.social - They/Them
- 30+ Minors DNI
Support me at: https://ko-fi.com/qu33n_of_lies
Join a game at: https://startplaying.games/gm/valkavian
PFP by: @noreecosper.bsky.social
Zoe @ripley-gm.bsky.social TTRPG designer, game master, writer, chronically ill.
BLM, Trans Rights, Free Palestine, Generative AI is theft
We stand together or we fall alone.
PFP by @jennymas289.bsky.social
She/her
https://zoesocials.carrd.co/
Aven @transistence.bsky.social owner of Tabletop Hotdish, anarchist, disabled, trans
jumpy online, thx PTSD
Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com Lead Producer at @sublightgames.com, where I tell queer space stories. Photography at Taiga Digital.
DORV survivor. Actual bleeding heart since '86. ❤️🩹 Painfully Minnesotan. There are no feds in Valhalla. She/They. EN/SV. 🇸🇪
🌸 L 🌸 @dreadhyrax.bsky.social Pizza buffet and coffee enthusiast
Anton_The_Storyteller @antonkromoff.com https://linktr.ee/anton_the_storyteller
TTRPG Author • Game Designer • Journalist
D&D | TTRPGs | WizKids | Warhammer | Pop Culture
I make strange worlds and interview the people making them.
Opinions are my own. ♿️ He/Him
arielle!✨fantastic knickknackery @arielleishere.bsky.social nj, she/her 💜🤍🩶🖤
craft engineer, click clack collector, married to casey! human art only, no a/i trash
AuDHD & loud about it
✨shop: fantastic knickknackery✨
✨ ariellemilstein.com ✨
James Hoare @jdhoare.bsky.social Writer and Social Manager. Adopted Geordie. Obsessed with old #ttrpgs, #horror, #history, and #rugbyleague.
Editor of 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 zine: https://ko-fi.com/secretpassages/
Katt Kirsch @kattkirsch.bsky.social Games: https://katt-kirsch.itch.io/
Blerg: https://kattkirsch.bearblog.dev/blog/
Authoress. Lagomorph Broodmother. Pretend Murder Enjoyer. Thinking Adventurist. Analogue Purist.
Libra, Cardinal of the Golden Dawn (Over/Under).
Moderator (Baseline Drift).
Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂 @quietsnooze.bsky.social Artist, writer, DnD plushie maker ♿🇨🇦 Creator of the webcomic Radio Silence http://radiosilencecomic.com | WIP Adult Fantasy novel Blood On Our Names | She/her
The AuDHD GM is Writing a TTTRPG @theaudhdgm.bsky.social Game Designer | GM | Writer | Disability Consultant | Sensitivity Reader | Historical Archaeologist| Anthropologist | AuDHD | POTS | hEDS | Disabled | Queer | Enby (They/Them) the.audhdgm@icloud.com 🏴🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Ben at 𝒹𝟧 @d5.social Independent game developer working on "of Cogs and Monsters" and UnHeroic.
https://d5games.com
https://linktr.ee/d5.social
Tabletop Tinkering @tabletoptinkering.bsky.social Part time library person. Queer UK based creator and vendor of tabletop themed trinkets and treasures
✨ www.tabletoptinkering.com ✨
#ttrpg #smallbusiness
They/them causing may/hem