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Barrymore pool death: Stuart Lubbock has been denied justice because o...
OPINIONS 04 FEB
Elizabeth Yardley, Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University, says cop culture has denied Stuart Lubbock of justice ahead of a Channel 4 documentary airing this week in which...
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Birmingham’s inaugural feminist porn festival puts Ethics and Desire f...
UNIVERSITY NEWS 03 FEB
Inclusivity and sex positivity will take centre stage at a feminist erotic film festival coming to Birmingham this month, developed by researchers at Birmingham City University.
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US-Iran hostilities ‘part of War on Terror says security academic
UNIVERSITY NEWS 10 JAN
The recent US/Iran hostilities, airstrikes and assassinations of Qassim Suleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis ‘neither foreshadow WW3, nor indicate a direct war between the US and Iran’, Dr Lily...
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New research reveals what motivates violent offenders and murderers in...
UNIVERSITY NEWS 26 NOV 2019
New research has examined the reasons why some men become serious violent offenders and murderers for organised crime groups in Birmingham’s criminal underworld.
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Psychologists praise NHS introduction of CF drug
OPINIONS 25 OCT 2019
Psychologists and Cystic Fibrosis researchers at Birmingham City University have applauded the NHS for making a life-extending drug available.
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Universities set to tackle discrimination in football
UNIVERSITY NEWS 15 OCT 2019
Discrimination in football will be placed in the spotlight at a special event next month tackling subjects such as racism and homophobia in the sport.
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Students set to study mass killings on pioneering psychology course
UNIVERSITY NEWS 25 SEP 2019
Students at Birmingham City University will begin studying the psychological understanding of mass killing this week in a university module like no other in the UK.
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Why do we still not know the motive behind the deadliest mass shooting...
OPINIONS 23 MAY 2019
This Friday (24 May) marks the 600 th day since the Route 91 Harvest music festival mass shooting occurred in Las Vegas on Sunday 1 October 2017. The FBI and Nevada authorities have still not...
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Criminologist praises preparation of new law refusing release for kill...
OPINIONS 17 MAY 2019
Justice Secretary David Gauke has announced that his team are preparing new legislation that could mean killers who refuse to reveal the location of their victims’ bodies are jailed indefinitely....
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The real lessons to learn from the Cypriot serial killings
OPINIONS 09 MAY 2019
Birmingham City University Criminologists Lucas Danos and Professor Elizabeth Yardley argue that recent murders in Cyprus are fuelled by social and cultural forces dividing communities.
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Who is ‘H’? Criminologists share their theories ahead of ‘Line of Duty...
OPINIONS 01 MAY 2019
As the most-watched television show of 2019 so far, BBC One’s ‘Line of Duty’ has the nation hooked on attempting to solve who is behind the anti-corruption police drama’s Organised Crime Group...
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Academics work with West Midlands Police to create pub quizzes
UNIVERSITY NEWS 30 APR 2019
Social scientists at Birmingham City University are working with West Midlands Police to create special pub quizzes designed to encourage better engagement between police officers and research...
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Birmingham academics to produce extremism paper for Home Secretary
UNIVERSITY NEWS 09 APR 2019
Social scientists at Birmingham City University have been commissioned to produce a paper on social media and extremism for Her Majesty’s Government.
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Criminologists publish 50 facts about crime we all should know
UNIVERSITY NEWS 28 MAR 2019
A new book by criminologists Dr Adam Lynes and Professor James Treadwell will reveal the myths and realities of crime in modern Britain.
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Removing ‘No Outsiders’ school lessons is adding to LGBT people being ...
OPINIONS 21 MAR 2019
Birmingham City University criminologist and gender researcher, Ben Colliver, argues there are ‘serious implications’ for children who are being denied access to the No Outsiders programme.