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Laura Knight

@ljknight.bsky.social
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Criminology, violence prevention for children and young people, place-based approaches, "what works" and evidence synthesis. Head of Toolkit, youthendowmentfund.org.uk

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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
These brilliant women, led by @helenpankhurst.bsky.social, connected last night to drive the change needed for a gender equal Parliament by 2028. @centenaryaction.bsky.social are campaigning to make it a reality. Donate here donate.careinternational.org.uk/page/Centena... #equality #inclusion
A group of women standing and sitting in front of two centenary action banners, smiling.
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Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱 @instantiator.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If interested, give @bright-ideas.bsky.social a follow or let me know if you'd like to help shape this thing 🙏🏻
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Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱 @instantiator.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Right, that's it, I'm doing another hackathon.
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New research: Summer employment programmes for young people reduced violence by 36%. There are only a few studies on the impact of summer jobs, but we summarise their effects in the YEF Toolkit. #youngpeople #violence #evidencesynthesis youthendowmentfund.org.uk/toolkit/summ...
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Summer employment programmes   | Youth Endowment Fund
Paid work placements for young people during the summer holidays.
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Youth Endowment Fund @youthendowmentfund.org.uk · 19/02/2025
Our new report focuses on disproportionality in the youth justice system, particularly for Black children. They make up 6% of the population but account for 28% of those in youth custody. Download our report where we outline 5 recommendations for the government. Learn more: buff.ly/4hDmkv1
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Sandi Toksvig made us all laugh, pointing out that this suffragette poster is printed on a tea towel... A great evening spent with supporters of Centenary Action, run by the fantastic @helenpankhurst.bsky.social Mission: #GenderEqualParliament by 2028. @centenaryaction.bsky.social
Picture of me with Helen Pankhurst smiling in front of a Centenary Action Mission 2028 banner. Picture of comedian Sandi Toksvig making a joke that the suffragette poster is printed on a tea towel.
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Youth Endowment Fund @youthendowmentfund.org.uk · 05/12/2024
💡 View our latest blog: Preventing violence against girls and women Learn how evidence-based interventions are making a difference by Head of YEF Toolkit @ljknight.bsky.social buff.ly/3ZCqufT
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Preventing Violence Against Girls, and Women   | Youth Endowment Fund
How can the YEF Toolkit aim to support violence against girls and women? Find out in our blog from the YEF Head of Toolkit, Laura Knight
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Caroline Bernard @carolinebernard.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Day 11 #16DaysofActivism - read this blog by @ljknight.bsky.social of @youthendowmentfund.org.uk which includes the impact of programmes for young people causing harm. The @respectuk.bsky.social Young People's Programme responds to this very issue #CAPVA youthendowmentfund.org.uk/preventing-v... 👇🏾
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Preventing Violence Against Girls, and Women   | Youth Endowment Fund
How can the YEF Toolkit aim to support violence against girls and women? Find out in our blog from the YEF Head of Toolkit, Laura Knight
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Latest report on the YEF survey of 10,000 teenage children in Eng&Wales: - 49% of children in relationships experienced violent or controlling behaviours. - 20% have been pressured into sexual acts they didn’t want. - 19% have been hit, kicked or shoved. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...
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Boys and girls experiences | Youth Endowment Fund
In this report, we examine how experiences of violence differ for boys and girls, the prevalence of relationship violence among teenage children and what schools are doing to promote healthy relations...
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What is more energising than a room full of women (and some men) marking 16 days of activism against gender-based violence?! Jess Phillips, MP, & Rt Hon Anneliese Dodds MP, reminded us that it IS possible to halve #VAWG. I am a teeny tiny cog in a complex system, but I am hopeful.
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I wrote a blog in recognition of the international day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls (#VAWG). I am both angry about the scale of violence against girls, & hopeful about the potential for interventions to reduce it. Read it here youthendowmentfund.org.uk/preventing-v...
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Preventing Violence Against Girls, and Women   | Youth Endowment Fund
How can the YEF Toolkit aim to support violence against girls and women? Find out in our blog from the YEF Head of Toolkit, Laura Knight
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Ben Crewe @bencrewe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The Institute of Criminology is advertising the position of an Associate Professor to lead the Master of Studies (MSt) programme in Applied Criminology, Penology & Management. This is a part-time role on a fixed-term basis for three years. Further information here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49313/
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Follow us for all things violence prevention for children and young people - @youthendowmentfund.org.uk
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Published today: survey of 10,000 children aged 13-17 in Eng&Wales. In the last year: - 16% perpetrated violence - 20% victims of violence - 41% say victimisation was motivated by discrimination - 20% carried a weapon - 9% carry a weapon or joined a gang for protection buff.ly/4eIVdMB
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Children, Violence and Vulnerability 2024 | Youth Endowment Fund
This is YEF’s third annual Children, violence and vulnerability report. This year, YEF surveyed over 10,000 teenage children aged 13-17 in England and Wales about their experiences of violence. View 2...
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Christina Weiland @weilanch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hadn’t seen a women in education policy research starter pack yet. Please let me know if I missed you… still getting my bearings in the new place. go.bsky.app/PixwBrM
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Ciara Keenan 📈 @metaevidence.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I’m new and delighted to be here! Where are my evidence synthesis people? Do we # here? #evidencesythesis
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
6. You can bookmark posts by replying with the 📌 emoji and following this feed bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Joseph Elliott @jelliott94.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Joseph Rowntree Foundation are recruiting two analysts to join our Insight and Policy Team. 📊🧑‍💻 Perfect role for early-career researchers with an interest in social policy, economic security, poverty, and more! Apply below ⬇️ (Please share) jrf.octo-firstclass.co.uk/candidates/c...
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Octo Candidates - Application Form - Vacancy Details
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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
New from me and Beki Pieri exploring the meaning and use of weapons in prisons. www.emerald.com/insight/cont... or for free here: www.crimrxiv.com/pub/grpk79xm... If you're interested, here's a thread (caution: discusses very serious violence). #criminology #violence #prison
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The meaning and use of weapons in an English remand prison | Emerald Insight
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Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social · 11/11/2024
Looking for a Research Assistant position? Interested in conducting systematic reviews of biomedical research? Come work with us at the CAMARADES group at the University of Edinburgh! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #AcademicSky #PhDSky #OpenResearch #Metascience
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Research Assistant
We are looking for a research assistant to work across a diverse range of meta-research projects in the CAMARADES team.
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Saddened to hear about the death of Professor David Farrington. His work inspired so many of us in criminology, and he contributed a lot to the YEF Toolkit reviewing evidence on violence prevention. Nice tribute here from Graham Towl. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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David Farrington 1944-2024 | BPS
A tribute from Graham Towl.
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Custody aftercare and resettlement programmes on average have a moderate impact on reducing #violence, reducing convictions by 14%. However, evidence is mixed and 6 studies show an increase in custody rates. Quality implementation is important (as always). youthendowmentfund.org.uk/toolkit/cust...
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Custody aftercare and resettlement programmes  | Youth Endowment Fund
Programmes that seek to address children's needs and support reintegration into the community.
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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 03/10/2024
This stuff is just amazing! notebooklm.google.com/notebook/10b... I've presented this paper easily 10 different times, nowhere have I come close to explaining it half as well as AI does it here. Hard not to see how part of my job has become completely obsolete. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
New from Aiden S, Spencer Chainey, Iain Agar and me. Inspired by the 55 steps guide, this is a goodie bag of things we think a crime analyst working on violent crime needs to know www.college.police.uk/guidance/pro...
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Problem solving violent crime: a guide for analysts | College of Policing
A problem-solving and analytical approach to serious violence.
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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 26/09/2024
The College of Policing is asking for expert views on the use of data and technology (including but not limited to AI) in policing. A tight deadline to reply, though: 11 October.
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Ethical use of data and technologies guidance – have your say | College of Policing
We’re consulting on new guidance for data ethics and data driven technologies in policing
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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 25/09/2024
Job alert! Research Fellow in Spatial Inequality. A great opportunity to work with a fantastic research team (Fran Pontin, Vikki Houlden and Anna Barker) utilising Open Data to enhance park safety for women and girls in Bradford jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Spatial Inequality
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Iain Brennan @iainbrennan.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Does exclusion from school cause later violent offending? New preprint from me and Rosie Cornish. Usual caveats that this hasn't been peer reviewed yet. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱 @instantiator.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
I've been updating the Collective Intelligentsia list for @listsky.bsky.social, and I'm keen to hear about folks working on or teaching #CollectiveIntelligence research and projects 🙏 🦋 instantiator.dev/listsky/list... #CI #Community #Research
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Collective Intelligentsia
A collection of Collective Intelligence practitioners, researchers, organisations, communities and bots working on new research, techniques, tools, and applications for CI.
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Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱 @instantiator.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
It has been a little while since I got to a hackathon... Would anybody like to come form a little team with me at the next NHS Hack Day? (12-13 Oct, London) 💻🩺💓 👉 nhshackday.com/events/2024/...
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NHS Hack Day | Geeks who love the NHS
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
We summarised the evidence on the effectiveness of #stopsearch on preventing #violence involving children and young people. - Very weak evidence showing small reductions in crime in the UK and moderate reductions in the US - Lots more info in the strand: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/toolkit/stop...
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Stop and search | Youth Endowment Fund
Police powers to stop and search a person for carrying an unlawful item.
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Spent today interrogating our YEF Toolkit + pondering balancing accurate summaries of complicated research, with actually helping commissioners make decisions on how to prevent #violence. Super fun!! No really 😃 Thanks to partners at the National Children's Bureau and the Race Equality Foundation
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Hannah Graham @drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
I have made a #Criminology starter pack listing criminologists who are based in the UK – colleagues to follow on here. Will add to it as more suggestions come in and newcomers arrive on Bluesky. Centres on those of us working in academia. #AcademicSky go.bsky.app/8sCM5VZ
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
A common problem when performing evidence synthesis is that popular risk of bias tools don’t precisely suit the kind of studies you’re synthesizing. The LATITUDES network is a searchable library of risk of bias tools categorized by study design www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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Introducing the LATITUDES network: a library of assessment tools and training to improve transparency, utility and dissemination in evidence synthesis
An assessment of the validity of studies is an essential component of most evidence syntheses (systematic reviews) to understand the risk of bias (ROB) and applicability of the evidence. A formal vali...
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Rebekah Barry @rebekahbarry.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
The real test of Bluesky as the new old twitter - Can I find a new contract? I'm available soon for content design and strategy work with accessibility and service design sprinkled on top. Re (tweets?) appreciated!
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
📣 We have an exciting new role in our evidence and research team - Senior Research Manager for Policing and Youth Justice. Share with anyone who might be interested. Visit our website for more information and for details on how to apply: buff.ly/3N27dy4
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Laura Knight @ljknight.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Hi, link up with me if you're working on preventing #children #youngpeople becoming involved in #violence. My job is to commission and/or desperately keep up with systematic reviews of interventions, that we summarise here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/toolkit/
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Youth Endowment Fund Toolkit
An overview of existing research on approaches to preventing serious youth violence.
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Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱 @instantiator.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Who's working on Collective Intelligence projects or research? I'm building a list! #CI #CollectiveIntelligence
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