Professor David Garland is widely considered one of the world’s leading sociologists of crime and punishment and is currently Professorial Fellow in Criminology at the University of Edinburgh. SCCJR. He is running a variety of free workshops between 15th to the 26th January 2018 .....

Andrew Eccles has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ...

Laura Piacentini, Professor of Criminology at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, has won a major ESRC award to explore cultures of punishment in the former USSR (fSU).

A multi-agency partnership ‘Stand Up For Siblings’ is being launched in Glasgow today, Friday 9 March 2018.

Ahead of the start of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland Australia, a new international initiative has been announced between the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), the University of Strathclyde, Griffith University and three other partner universities from Canada and South Africa.

The European Conference for Social Work Research started yesterday in the University of Edinburgh and a number of our staff and PhD students are presenting their work..

Sally Paul will be delivering a plenary session

This week’s series of articles in the Herald Scotland newspaper, to which the Institute for Future Cities has contributed, picks up some of these dimensions in relation to Glasgow.

We were excited to welcome the first year BA social work students to the university today and hope that they will enjoy their time with us.

Chris Deeming and Johannes Kananen, University of Helsinki, have had a Panel accepted for the forthcoming Nordic Welfare Research Conference “Towards Resilient Nordic Welfare States: Challenges, Responses and Consequences” 14-15 March 2019, University of Helsinki, Finland.

New cluster led seminars commencing Wednesday 3rd October 2018

Welcome to our new staff joining us on the new phase of work in the “Equally Safe in Higher and Further Education” project and Daniel Horn will be with us for three years on the ESRC study “In the Gulag’s Shadow”.

An article by Laura Steckley which explores the relationship between physical restraint and catharsis in residential child care has been selected as Editor’s Choice in the current issue of the British Journal of Social Work.

The Bereavement Research and Innovation Group (BRIG) and colleagues from Dundee University successfully applied for funding from the Scottish Universities Institute

Dr Chris Deeming is currently visiting Professor in Comparative Social Policy at the Sciences Po, Paris, Sept/Oct period 2018.

Mhairi Gavin, who was supervised by Professor Laura Piacentini and Dr Claire McDiarmid (Strathclyde Law School), successfully defended her PhD Thesis on 17th October with no corrections.

Research from our project with young people who are EU nationals has featured in a Channel 4 News item on 13th November 2018

A Centre for Youth & Criminal (CYCJ) and the Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum (STAF) project on improving the experiences of young people in residential care has received a Special Commendation for Policy Development at the 2018 Howard League Community Awards.