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The European Sociological Association Summer School 2022, titled ‘Sociology Matters: Theory, Methods and Practices’, was held on September 5 and 6 in the marvellous UNESCO world heritage city of Dubrovnik on the Adriatic coast in the very south of Croatia, a city with rich history and cultural tradi…

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The European Society of Criminology was founded in 2000. The Society aims to bring together in Europe persons actively engaged in research, teaching and/or practice in the field of Criminology.

The Society wishes to foster criminological scholarship, research, education and training, and to encourage scholarly, scientific and practical exchange and cooperation among criminologists in Europe and elsewhere. Its objective is further to serve as a forum for the dissemination of criminological knowledge at the European level.

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The European Society of Criminology was founded in 2000. The Society aims to bring together in Europe persons actively engaged in research, teaching and/or practice in the field of Criminology. The Society wishes to foster criminological scholarship, research, education and training, and to encourage scholarly, scientific and practical exchange and cooperation among criminologists in Europe and elsewhere.

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Society for Evidence Based Policing page

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The Society of Evidence Based Policing is made up of police officers, police staff, and research professionals who want to transform policing through understanding what works.

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The College of Policing was established in 2012 as the professional body for those working in policing in England & Wales. The College’s purpose is to provide the skills and knowledge necessary to prevent crime, protect the public and secure public trust.

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Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association page

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Today's announcement of the assessment of UK university research quality (the Research Excellence Framework) confirms the outstanding work in media, communication, and cultural studies. The results reflect not only excellence in the standards of research but also success in engaging with those who can use and benefit from research in these fields. They also demonstrate the range, versatility, and diversity of research in media, communication, and cultural studies in UK universities.

Einar Thorsen, chair of the subject association for the field, the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, said that "these detailed and robust assessments show the enormous hard work and tremendously high quality of the research undertaken in media, communication and cultural studies departments right across the university sector. Despite the great difficulties and pressures of the last few years, the huge contribution made by our field to new knowledge and understanding in these absolutely central areas of social life is proven by these results".

The field was mainly evaluated by one of the 34 'panels' established for this purpose. Among the highlights of the results from this panel (available in full on the REF website) are the following:

Three quarters of all outputs (including books, articles, and practice-based research in a variety of formats) were assessed as 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent', and a third of the total were regarded as in the highest category, underlining the leading nature of UK research in this field across the globe

Nearly half (48%) of work submitted was regarded as having 'world-leading' impact in terms of its value and application in social, cultural, policy, and economic fields.

Over 1,600 students were awarded doctorates in the field in the period assessed (2013-2020), testimony to a vibrant field with a high quality development of younger researchers

80 per cent of the submissions demonstrated a research environment that was either world leading or internationally excellent.

Nearly 1,400 staff were submitted to the assessment from nearly 60 institutions

Many researchers within the fields represented by MeCCSA will have had their research evaluated by another panel, for example that assessing work in, among other things, film and screen studies. In this panel too, three-quarters (75 per cent) of research was assessed as internationally excellent or world-leading, and over four-fifths of submissions (81.3 per cent) were assessed as having research whose impact externally was in one of these top two categories.

Contact for enquires: Einar Thorsen, Chair of MeCCSA

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MeCCSA - Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association

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Today's announcement of the assessment of UK university research quality (the Research Excellence Framework) confirms the outstanding work in media, communication, and cultural studies. The results reflect not only excellence in the standards of research but also success in engaging with those who can use and benefit from research in these fields.

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