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David Gadd

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Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester

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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race
She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar exp...
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Outcry as modern slavery unit is closed | The Observer
Funding is being cut from the task force, despite an ongoing investigation into a trafficking ring allegedly run by the late Harrod’s owner Al Fayed
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Anyone out there able to help with this study about experiences of stalking? It's open to men, women and non-binary participants.
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
UK Universities cut 13,300 jobs, paid £300m+ in redundancy. Economic contribution of the HE sector, £265bn. Systematically destroyed by govts - foreign students not welcome, cut real-term grants, fees, students burdened with debts, low staff pay/morale. Govt want skilled labour. archive.ph/favYt
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Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... Reflections on almost 3 decades of listening to men's account of sexual violence and what they reveal about some currently newsworthy debates
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart
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Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
👇👇👇👇👇👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/patr...
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... In 2024 only 13 out 19125 NRM applications were deemed to have been made in bad faith. It's disgraceful that UK Labour are continuing the Conservatives false narrative on pervasive abuse of modern slavery protections.
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Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’
Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PM’s ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17/09/2025
In London, hate will never win.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
"Who do they think they are?!" A furious @andyburnham.bsky.social on the news that a Reform UK government would scrap plans to build Northern Powerhouse Rail.
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
An excellent read for academics wondering what not to prioritise after the 'break'
The Slow Professor
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
With UK news shows reporting more than 50,000 small boat migrants have crossed the English Channel since Labour came to power now would be a good time to remind Nigel Farage & others that Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...
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Imagine the shock when he finds out Brexit is a primary factor in sky rocketing small boat crossings
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Source: Times Higher Education search.app/ygTBk Makes some insightful points about incremental learning and the difference between student need and student choice that have become lost in an over marketised system
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Has student-centred teaching gone too far?
Marketisation and the pandemic pushed student preferences to the top of every university’s teaching and learning agenda. But should those preferences be acted on even if they risk undermining educatio...
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Well put and really means the question needs to be, not is neuro diversity over diagnosed, but how do we design organisational structures that embrace and build on such diversity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why the antagonism over the rise in autism diagnoses? It’s actually good news | Gina Rippon
A ninefold increase is the result of huge advances in our understanding – and brings the hope of fulfilling lives to many more people, says author Gina Rippon
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Spot on. Come on Labour. Don't reproduce the shortcomings of your predecessors
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Influential women urge Labour to include asylum seekers in plan to tackle violence
Exclusive: Letter warns of ‘two-tier’ system if asylum seekers are excluded from promise to halve violence against women and girls
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Causing concern and confusion among fans of The Hanmaid's Tale ;-) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Ofwat to be abolished as ministers look to create new water regulator
Move follows intense criticism of utilities over sewage spills, shareholder payouts and ballooning debts
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... Exceptional interview. Revelatory
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BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Praise You: A forgotten love letter to black men
The secret civil rights history of DJ Fatboy Slim’s dance anthem Praise You
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
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Joint letter to Yvette Cooper: Child sexual exploitation (CSE) must not be stereotyped
27th June 2025 – Following Baroness Casey’s audit on group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) and abuse (CSA), we have grown concerned by the lack of recognition for CSE support, com…
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Presumably the same for Meta AI
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Sarah Cooper @sarahcpr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The #1 most frequently asked question about Copilot in Microsoft Word or Gemini in Google Docs is how do you turn it off.
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
One really tricky issue with ethnicity data relating to suspects - as opposed to defendants -is that it's based on child victims' perceptions of someone they may not know very well or even at all. That lends itself to a crude 4-fold typology, rooted in British colonialism and remade in police data
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Criminology University of Manchester @criminologyuom.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🗣️Understanding and rehumanising the harms of hate - powerful reflections from Professor @NeilChakraborti in today’s talk on how we discuss and address hate in society.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 23/05/2025
"One of the single worst examples of journalism I've ever seen in a British newspaper." @mrjamesob.bsky.social can't believe what he's reading.
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
If you see Sir Keir, tell him
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/05/2025
WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Nicely put, Kate and instructive also on gaps and silences that are currently dampening the UK government's chances of having Violence Against Women and Girls with 4.2 years.
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... If the UK really were leading the world in combatting modern slavery, it would be reconsidering hosting the brands listed here -Starbucks, Nestlé, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Dunkin’, Illy and McDonald’s - and advising the public against buying from them.
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‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’
Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Need a maths tutor to help get someone's revision over the line? Thomas comes highly recommended. Online lessons with interactive whiteboard available www.firsttutors.com/uk/tutor/tho...
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Thomas, Sale Tutor
I am a passionate mathematician, taking a year out before heading for university. I am happy to work with learners of any ability and will work with you to help you get to where you want to be. I h...
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
'big tech could help by stopping the algorithms pushing extreme content to young people who wanted' and if that is the case, then the solutions are more geopolitical and more corporate than is conventional assumed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Misogynistic content driving UK boys to hunt vulnerable girls on suicide forums
Exclusive: Police set up taskforce to tackle online violence as young men seek victims on eating disorder forums
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Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is very good from @404media.co www.404media.co/a-us-made-ip... Great insight to the barely imaginable complexity of modern tech supply chains and why comparisons (by those on both sides of the debate) with what happened 100 years ago with tariffs are just... well, pointless.
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A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
"The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America."
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Home Office spent £22,000 on failed attempt to stop Windrush report release
Hard-hitting internal investigation found roots of scandal lay in racist immigration legislation
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Yes same here
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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De complexe werkelijkheid achter georganiseerd seksueel misbruik in het VK
Grooming gangs: In het Verenigd Koninkrijk is al jaren veel te doen over georganiseerd seksueel misbruik waarbij de daders overwegend een migratie-achtergrond zouden hebben. Dat ligt genuanceerder.
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Making Change Meaningful for Prisoner Survivors of Sexual Assault Date: 14 may • 13:00 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-cha...
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Making Change Meaningful for Prisoner Survivors of Sexual Assault
An Evaluation of the OUT Spoken Talking Therapy Programme by Professor David Gadd and Jess Glynn
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
'It starts from a premise which assumes there is such a thing as masculinity and that the answer to gendered problems in society, problems that affect all of us, is more and better gender, or gender done differently; rather than not at all' Serious food for thought
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
And now for some criminology that's a little different doi.org/10.1177/1557... 'Toward a Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Criminology: A Case Study of Women’s Methamphetamine Use' With Heidi Grundetjern
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Every leader in Europe should be echoing this loudly too, including UK Labour
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
theconversation.com/police-strug...
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Police struggle to identify the riskiest domestic abuse perpetrators – here’s how they can do better
The current approach treats incidents as isolated, when they should be looked at as a whole.
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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I don't understand the framing of this very real problem. For a start, "non-ideological" terrorism is a misnomer. If it's non-ideological, it is, by definition, not terrorism.
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
‘there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created.’ This must be changed.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
if you buy used books and want to avoid amazon where possible, check out bookfinder.com you can search essentially every marketplace in one go so you can, e.g., find the same used copy for sale, from the same seller, on biblio.com or ebay instead of amazon or abe (owned by amazon)
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BookFinder.com: New & Used Books, Rare Books, Textbooks
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Emma Barrett @crimepsychblog.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Why aren't we doing this in the UK? We could use the estimated £400+million we're spending on #REF2029 to attract the brightest and best academics who would otherwise go to or stay in the US. Long term positive impact on uk productivity and innovation. www.404media.co/french-unive...
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French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
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David Gadd @profdavidgadd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
socialequity.unimelb.edu.au/activities/m... Was an honor to be invited to University of Melbourne last month to give this talk on tackling sexual violence. Thanks to @thedailypanda.bsky.social for inviting me and to @vp-centre.bsky.social for funding the trip for myself andthe GMCA delegation
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Seminar Videos
Melbourne Research Alliance to End Violence against women and their children (MAEVe) runs regular seminars throughout the year.
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