Academic writing:
- Bird, H., Bryant, L., & Kadiri, H. (2024) ‘Defunding the police is good for our mental health’, The Political Quarterly 95: 474-479
Research reports:
- Bird, H. & Nolan, D. (2025) Children’s Hearings Redesign Consultation Analysis: Independent report commissioned by the Scottish Government
- Bird, H., Bradshaw, J., Grimshaw, R., Kadiri, H., & Mills, H. (2024) Serious Violence Reduction Orders: The impression of doing something
- StopWatch (2024) Out of Order: The Rise of Stop and Search in Civil Orders Legislation
Book reviews:
Blog posts:
- LFR sets its sights on Scotland, StopWatch blog, 2025
- Repetitive, vague, meaningless, and unenforceable: We read the Met’s new ‘Stop and Search Charter’ so you don’t have to, StopWatch blog, 2025
- Sexual Violence and the Boundaries of the Nation: Formulating Anti-racist Feminist Responses to Violence Against Women within Ethnic Minority Communities [Write-up of a talk at the Oxford Centre for Criminology], 2021
- Artful Punishment: The Curious Symbiosis Between Art and Imprisonment [Write-up of a talk at the Oxford Centre for Criminology], 2021
- Victims of Domestic Violence: Some Notes from the ‘Periphery’ to the ‘World Centres’ [Write-up of a talk at the Oxford Centre for Criminology], 2021
News articles for ‘The Justice Gap’ magazine:
- ‘Staffing crisis at Northamptonshire prison ‘one of the worst I have seen’, says Chief Inspector’, Sept 2022
- ‘‘Urgent action’ required to address healthcare needs of women in prison, report finds’, July 2022
- ‘Prison ombudsman launches investigation after woman dies at HMP Styal’, July 2022
- ‘Overcrowding an ‘enduring crisis’ at HMP Low Moss, report finds’, July 2022
- ‘‘Significant’ increase in use of force at HMP Elmley’, June 2022
- ‘Violence at HMYOI Werrington ‘higher than any other establishment in England and Wales’’, May 2022
I also wrote StopWatch’s monthly newsletter on Substack from July 2022 to January 2024 during my time as Research and Policy Officer.
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