The Postgraduate Conference will take place on Tuesday 9th July 2024.
As the BSC conference aims to examine what is next for the discipline, we are excited to invite the next generation of scholars to showcase their work in a supportive, open and collegiate setting. This will allow PGR colleagues to present new and ground-breaking work in progress, to engage critically with the work of their peers, and build their professional networks.
PGR Conference Plenary: Theorising criminology at a time of transition
The success of criminology as a growing discipline raises fundamental questions about how we produce knowledge, how we conceptualise and understand the problems of crime, justice, social harm and inequality which are central to our field of scholarship, and the theoretical tools we employ to address these concerns, both to further knowledge and to promote social justice.
In this plenary Dr Francesca Soliman and Dr Ben Collier will discuss how, and what affect, they have both utilised and developed criminological theory through their cutting-edge work. In doing so, they will reflect critically on the how theoretical developments have shaped the past, present and future of criminology, and the opportunities for theoretical work to build a critically engaged discipline which can meet the most pressing social concerns at this time of global transition.
Dr Francesca Soliman is a Lecturer in Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University. Her research addresses the social harms associated with the enforcement of international borders, and uses the framework of zemiology to analyse how states respond to social problems. Her 2023 book, Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa (Routledge), is an ethnographic study of the borderisation of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, which explores border harms from the perspective of the non-migrant community.
Dr Ben Collier is a Lecturer in Digital Methods at the University of Edinburgh. Drawing on science and technology studies, he has conducted research on cybercrime, influence policing, data, privacy and the state. His 2024 book, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (The MIT Press), is a cultural and technological history of the infrastructure underpinning the so-called ‘Dark Web’.
Postgraduate Bursaries
The BSC are pleased to be offering a number of postgraduate bursaries to attend this year’s conference.
Each bursary will cover the conference fee, conference dinner and accommodation 9th-11th at Glasgow Caledonian university for one PhD student.
You can apply for a postgraduate bursary if you meet ALL of the following criteria:
- You are presenting a paper or poster at the BSC Conference 2024
- You are a registered PhD student (full-time or part-time)
- You are a member of the British Society of Criminology
Instructions on how to apply will be posted on the BSC website.
We thank the individual sponsors and Sage Publishing who have generously contributed to this scheme.