Dr Julian Molina
BA (HONS), MA, PhD
Current positions
Lecturer in Public Policy
School for Policy Studies
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Research interests
Julian is a Lecturer in Public Policy and works at the edges of social studies of social science, administrative criminologies, government analytical professions, data infrastructures, crime, justice and spatial policy. He is currently working on research projects related to predictive analytics, systems thinking and computerisation in criminal justice policy since the 1960s, along with histories of computational social science and British criminology. Previously, Julian was a Government Social Researcher in the UK Civil Service where he conducted research on prisons, victim support, courts, policing, Covid recovery efforts. He holds a doctorate in Sociology from the University of Warwick and was a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Language, Interaction and Culture at UCLA.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
The dark figure of crime: government research work and the history of the British Crime Survey (1970 to the present)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
14/11/2022 to 31/03/2023
Publications
Recent publications
22/01/2024How to facilitate knowledge exchange and build trust with policymakers
Urban Violence
Urban Studies
Data returns
Encyclopedia of Mobilities
“A Modern Research Profession”: Government Social Research, Evidence-Based Policymaking and Blind Spots in Contemporary Governance Research
Contemporary Social Science
The Home Office’s Racism Studies before the Macpherson Inquiry
British Journal of Criminology