Rebecca Foster

📄🆕️ New open access article by @drcconnell.bsky.social and colleagues:

A systematic review on mandated drug and alcohol treatment for justice-involved adults

#JusticeHealth #Health #Drugs #SubstanceUse #Criminology
healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We love speaking to pupils/learners at schools and colleges about all things Criminology and Social Sciences - thanks for having us! @drshanehorgan.bsky.social

Call for papers for Special Issue: Including lived experience in substance use research think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

📢✨️ Call for research participants about Scottish #IndyRef

Dr Coree Brown Swan & Dr @maydinger.bsky.social, University of Stirling, are creating a digital map of #IndyRef places, traces, and memories. You can participate anonymously or opt to be interviewed.

🔗📄 Form
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Our social sciences and criminology colleagues are ready to welcome prospective students at Edinburgh Napier University's Open Day 2025. Come see us at Sighthill Campus between 10am and 3pm #MustBeNapier

Calling all of our Year 2 Social Science, Policing and Criminology students! Please do attend one of these sessions if interested in studying abroad next year and get in touch with me as academic advisor to discuss modules! @socscinapier.bsky.social 🌍📚📖

The launch of 'Criminal Justice in Scotland' textbook This event offers an opportunity to bring a range of voices together to reflect on where Scottish criminal justice is and where it's going.

Textbook Launch Event🚀

Join us for this in-person event @edinburghnapier.bsky.social on 7 Oct 3-5pm where we bring together a range of voices to reflect on where Scottish criminal justice is and where it's going.

Register your place now 👇
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Interested in quantitative methods, health and justice? Come join us👇

Every year…

Editors' Choice Collection Families, Relationships and Societies Editors' Choice Collection Families, Relationships and Societies

💡📖 Hand picked by our editors, free to access until 31st October - Check out our brand new Editors Choice collection for Families, Relationships, and Societies!⬇️

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...

Woop woop getting to hear this in presentation form from the very talented Danilo Falzon, @sacasrstir.bsky.social Research Assistant and @socscinapier.bsky.social PhD student!

Spending the morning at the @stir.ac.uk at this great @drnscot.bsky.social event on young people and substance use. A great line up which includes presentations from @sacasrstir.bsky.social former colleagues!

📣 Rapid Review by Danilo Falzon is now live!✨

Preventing Substance Use-Related Harms Among Young People in Scotland: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Systems Solutions

Read the review here: buff.ly/Z5qmpte

My brilliant colleagues' recent funding successes have opened up 2 fixed term positions in our criminology team at @edinburghnapier.bsky.social; if you are an early career researcher, or you are finishing up/just out of a PhD, we would love to hear from you.

Alcohol Occasional 3: Scotland’s first Managed Alcohol Programme Join us online for our third seminar of the 2025 series, delivered by Dr Emma King, Dr Hannah Carver and Jessica Greenhalgh.

🔊Register now for our upcoming seminar on Scotland's first Managed Alcohol Programme.

12.45 - 2pm, Mon 1 Sep 2025 @sarnalcohol.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alcohol-oc...

Cover page of the textbook Criminal Justice in Scotland.

🧑‍⚖️ | The first book in a decade to focus entirely on Scotland’s criminal justice system has been published.

Learn more about Criminal Justice in Scotland ⤵️

Story ➡️ orlo.uk/zWH3F

#MustBeNapier | @socscinapier.bsky.social

4. So I hope this is encouraging for anyone in a similar boat - if I have managed it, you certainly can too...

3. On a personal level, I just wanted to share (emphasise!) that this was a paper that was on my ‘to do’ list every year but other tasks (and life!) got in the way. It finally got published 10 years (!) after I conducted my fieldwork.

2. I’m grateful to the supportive and helpful reviewers; to encouraging @socscinapier.bsky.social colleagues; and to the journal’s editorial team.

1. I'm chuffed that my paper with Families, Relationships and Societies @brisunipress.bsky.social is featured in the journal’s Editors Choice Collection! This is very much a first for me. The publisher is offering free access until 31st Oct: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/Edit...

Criminal Justice in Scotland Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as w...

And today’s publication day!

Massive thanks to my lovely @socscinapier.bsky.social co-authors, Jamie Buchan & @kmmorrison.bsky.social - and to everyone who helped by reviewing chapters, answering queries or chatting to us about their work.

www.routledge.com/Criminal-Jus...

Lecturer in Criminology (R&T) at University of Glasgow Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Criminology (R&T). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

JOB: Lecturer in Criminology (R&T) at the University of Glasgow.

Full time, fixed term (5 year) post in a collegiate team which is part of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research @thesccjr.bsky.social
#Criminology #AcademicSky #Research
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD973/l...

Media literacy - Committees - UK Parliament This inquiry will seek to establish a clear vision for what good media literacy would look like in the UK, and examine the barriers to achieving this vision. The committee will consider the roles and ...

The House of Lords just released a major report on media literacy. Its core message is that the UK is falling behind, and it’s putting democracy at risk.
committees.parliament.uk/work/9030/me...

A picture of the front cover page of the primer paper, in a deep forest green background colour and a photo image of the dictionary definition of the word 'justice' and its meaning. The paper title says, 'Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission: Describing the Challenge.'

The Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission have published a new short primer paper 👇 🔗 It highlights key issues facing Scotland's Justice system, with a focus on the prison population.
#Sentencing #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #CommunityJustice #Victims #ScottishJustice

www.gov.scot/publications...

We are incredibly proud to announce that our talented colleague @kir-anderson.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious RSE Personal Research Fellowship for her research project on harm, history, and memory in Scottish prisons 👏

You can't swing a cat in Napier's crim team's offices without hitting a successful colleague in the face, and I am beyond delighted to see the latest success of all-round excellent human being @kir-anderson.bsky.social, I can think of no better person to conduct this important project.

Will save the rant on problems with trains (especially for families) for another day but for now thank you kind strangers! I’ll do my best to reciprocate soon.

Soft toy rabbit with notebook, pen, soap, hot chocolate sachets and biscuits.

One such act includes Ruth, Deputy College Housekeeper from @caiuscollege.bsky.social kindly posting rabbit (and some extras) first class, back home when it got left in our accommodation as we left in haste (opps). So kind!

This is a wee thank you to the universe to the many kind strangers who helped on the journey - eg carrying bags on/off trains, holding daughter’s hand