I am now a Visitor Professor in the School of Human & Health Sciences at the University of Huddersfield.😀 Thanks for the invitation Jason Roach School of Human and Health Sciences A very fitting tribute to my late Dad, Dr David Skinns, who used to work there. I am sure he would be delighted. #happysad #grief

This looks great. Can’t wait to read it and recommend it to my students.

See some of you in Preston!

This is the first of three in the CCR's series of seminars on 'Technology, harm, crime and criminal justice'. We have lined up some fantastic (international) speakers on 1 &8 Nov and 6 Dec. and these events will be hybrid/online. I hope you can join us. Sign up below. 🙂👇

Not long to go now until the first of the CCR's technology-themed events, on 'Tech, harm and crime, including: Prof Julia Davidson OBE on young people and online harms; @JohnnyHistone on digital nudges in policing; & Tirion Havard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 on digital coercive control. Hope you can make it! 👇🙂

It's nearly time for Panel 2 of CCR's technology-themed seminars! On 8 November 12-2pm, we consider: rap music in criminal trials (Abenaa Owusu-Bempah ); video links between courts and prisons (@carolyn_mak); prison as a site for media technologies (Stiernstedt and Kaun). Join us online!

Last but not least, come and join us for third and final CCR technology seminar. Online 4-6pm 6 December. We will be focusing on non-state responses to technology-mediated harms. We have three great speakers lined up. Please join us. Details below. 😀👇

Really pleased to see this come out and what a fantastic new edition it looks!! Thanks ProfDeniseMartin and Steve for doing a fab editorial job. Check out our chapter on 'Researching Police Custody: Past, Present and Future' with Dr Rebecca Banwell-Moore, Lindsey Rice and Dr Andrew Wooff

📢 Save the date! For over 40 years, Tim Newburn has been a key figure in British and European criminology and social policy. Join LSE Social Policy and LSE Law School on 2 March to celebrate his career! Find out more: ow.ly/Gkj350QweBN

Such an honour and a privilege to say a few words about why Tim is so hugely deserving of the BSC Outstanding Contribution Award 2024. Congratulations once again Tim Newburn 🥳💜

Join Sara Grace, Louise Westmarland and I for the ‘graveyard’ slot at 8.15-9.45am today in Conference Room 1. #BSC2024

Calling any budding police custody researchers out there. Come and work with me as Research Associate on my current project. 😁😁 Details are below. 👇

So, I did this podcast recently with the very generous James Williams from LJMU, who kindly let me talk for a bit, asking lots of interesting questions along the way: 'Policing in Custody with Professor Layla Skinns' shows.acast.com/629defa230a613… via Acast

So happy to see this final part of our special issue published. It celebrates Prof. Joanna Shapland’s remarkable 40-year career and has come out just days before she retires from ⁦⁦⁦⁦School of Law, Sheffield⁩ 🥳😄 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

Great to work with digital animators AV Studios on this, enabling detainees in police custody to be better informed of their R&E and to make more autonomous choices. More details about the project are here: sheffield.ac.uk/law/research/g…

This was fun! So great to be in beautiful Christ Church and at this wonderful conference. Bravo to the ANZSOC organisers and University of Canterbury. 🥳😊😆🎉

Presenting findings from more than a decade of work on Taser and police use of force from England and Wales as well as on experiences working alongside UN offices, special procedures and human rights and detention monitors, Abi Dymond from University of Exeter presents their keynote

A bit late but better than never. 😆 I’m very much looking forward to giving this talk tomorrow ⬇️ Hope to see you online.

🤩🤩 Some exciting grant news 🤩🤩 ⁦Profs. Jackie Hodgson and Vanessa Munro, Roxanna Dehaghani⁩ and I have received Police STAR Funding with ⁦West Yorkshire Police⁩ to look at police custody as a gendered space. Let the hard work begin! Details here: science.police.uk/opportunities/…

I’m delighted to be taking this on and looking forward to the year ahead. 🥳😊