Dr Julian Molina

Julian is a Senior 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 Programme Director for the Master's in Public Policy.

He is currently working on a BUP monograph on the prehistory of predictive analytics, systems thinking and computerisation in criminal justice policy from the 1950s; transnational historical studies of the social sciences and computational reason; and, an interview-based study of the Government Social Research profession in the UK Civil Service.

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.