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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.