Some reflections on the BSC Conference 2021

Nick Gibbs reflects on his experience of this year's conference... As I write this, we’ve just waved goodbye to another wonderful conference hosted by the BSC, in conjunction with the Open University. For me, it’s been an event that has simultaneously felt entirely unprecedented and yet strangely comforting, given that it’s been the first time …

Building Foundations- A message for those at the start of their PhD.

As we start a new academic year, our Chair reflects on the early stages of the PhD. So much of the early stages of the PhD is understanding the PhD process and what is expected of you. Where is the bar we’re aiming for? What level of writing? What level of knowledge? What level of …

Thinking Differently about Youth Justice – Event & Call for Papers

The BSC Postgraduate Committee's 'Thinking Differently' series brings together academics and practitioners to critically explore contemporary issues in criminology and challenge taken-for-granted assumptions. The series seeks to build on the work of the BSC Postgraduate committee's work by hosting events that seek to provide a meaningful and relevant contribution to the criminology postgraduate experience within …

PhD Blog – Communication is key: Why does Communication in Youth Justice Matter?

  As we resume our PhD guest blog series after the summer break, this weeks blog is from Gabriella Simak. Gabriella is in the 3rd year of a PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Bangor University. Her research interests are related to youth justice policy, more specifically the use of restorative justice models in …

#BSCconf16 – ‘My first BSC conference but definitely not my last’ by Roxanna Dehaghani

Roxanna is a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Leicester. She presented a paper at this years BSC conference entitled 'Vulnerable by law but not by nature: exploring custody officers' conception of youth and childhood vulnerability in the context of police custody' . She presented this on Thursday 7 July from …

#BSCconf16 experience – Sophie Pike

Sophie Pike attended the BSC Conference in Nottingham last week and has kindly written a blog of her experience of the conference. Sophie presented a brilliant paper under the 'Homicide Investigation' panel - a widely tweeted about panel session!  If you would like to contact Sophie about her PhD or research interests please email - …

What now criminology? Anna Matczak

Anna Matczack is a PhD researcher and criminologist at London School of Economics and Political Science. She recently attended the BSC conference in Nottingham and has written this review. You can find the original review at Anna's blog https://annamatczak.com/2016/07/11/what-now-criminology/, and contact her on twitter @MatczakAnia. Ana also presented her poster at the BSC conference, take …

The BSCPG Committee – going from strength to strength

Susie Atherton, Keele University If you have been keeping up with our blog over the course of the BSC conference, you will see that Susie has offered some brilliant posts to update us with the key themes and messages from the conference proceedings. Here is another fantastic post from her, if you want to catch …

#BSCconf16 – Living up to the title

Susie Atherton, Teaching Fellow in Criminology, Keele University Susie has been blogging brilliantly about the BSC conference in Nottingham. You can read her first post here.  Another day of scrutinising tweets has shown how well this year’s conference is examining ‘Inequality in a Diverse World.’ As Prof. Neil Chakraborti said, ‘British Criminology is in good …

SPECIAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS : Chilcot Inquiry

Special Call for Contributions: Chilcot Inquiry We are putting out a special call for contributions to a blog piece, written by criminology postgraduates. This is an opinion piece, and we are only after a small paragraph 150-300 words, that discusses the potential implications of the report from a criminological perspective. You can address any area …