Events
prisonHEALTH events
prisonHEALTH hosts regular discussion groups with internal and external speakers.
Professor Toby Seddon
visits Prisons, Health and Societies
4 October 2022
“Rethinking prison inspection: lessons from regulation studies”
prisonHEALTH external speaker – Toby Seddon, University College London
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Dr Chris Seeds visits Prisons, Health and Societies
10 November 2022
“The prison hospice: palliative care at the end of life sentences”
prisonHEALTH external speaker - Chris Seeds, University of California, Irvine
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Professor Ben Crewe visits Prisons, Health and Societies
25 March 2021
prisonHEALTH external speaker - Ben Crewe, Cambridge University
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Dr Nate Link visits Prisons, Health and Societies
2 December 2020
prisonHEALTH external speaker - Nate Link, PhD, Rutgers University, USA
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CRIMVOL events
CRIMVOL now principally hosts regular discussion groups with internal and external speakers. All of our activities are intended to be welcoming, supportive and informal; and provide productive spaces for discussion and reflection.
Setting the Research Agenda
June 2017
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American Society of Criminology 2017 Philadelphia
November 2017
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Emerging Scholarship
January 2018
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Comparative Workshop Number One
June 2018
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American Society of Criminology
November 2019
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Launch event: CRIMVOL virtual working paper series - The personal and political consequences of penal voluntary sector practice (Gillian McNaull)
May 2020
- Presenter: Dr Gillian McNaull (Queens University Belfast)
- Chair: Dr Philippa Tomczak (University of Nottingham)
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Second CRIMVOL virtual working paper session - Comparing desistance, the role of the third sector assisting change in England and France (Ruwani Fernando)
July 2020
- Presenter: Ruwani Fernando (University of Sheffield)
- Chair: Kaitlyn Quinn (University of Toronto/ University of Nottingham)
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Third CRIMVOL virtual working paper session - NGOs in international criminal justice and the International Criminal Court (Kjersti Lohne)
September 2020
- Presenter: Dr Kjersti Lohne (University of Oslo, Norway)
- Chair: Abi Salole (University of Toronto/ Sheridan College, Canada)
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Fourth CRIMVOL virtual working paper session - PVS in the youth criminal justice system in Canada (Abigail Salole)
November 2020
- Presenter: Abi Salole (University of Toronto/ Sheridan College, Canada)
- Chair: Dr Melissa Pepper (University of Greenwich, UK)
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Fifth CRIMVOL virtual working paper session - Creative writing practitioners in prisons (Ella Simpson) and Coalition building and activism (Samantha McAleese)
January 2021
- Presenter: Ella Simpson, (University of Bath Spa)
- Chair: Gill Buck (University of Chester)
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Sixth CRIMVOL virtual working paper session - Shakespeare UnBard during the pandemic (Rowan Mackenzie) and Collaboration between professionals and volunteers supporting people leaving prison in Belgium (Liesbeth Nassens)
May 2021
- Presenters: Dr Rowan Mackenzie (Founder and Artistic Director of Shakespeare UnBard, UK) and Liesbeth Naessens (University of Antwerp and Odisee University College Brussels)
- Chair: Dr Gill Buck (University of Chester, UK)
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Seventh CRIMVOL virtual working paper session - Criminal justice voluntary sector organizations in Denmark (Annette Olesen)
September 2021
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Eighth CRIMVOL virtual working paper session - Teaching the PVS (member working group)
January 2022
- Report Author: Samantha McAleese
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Ninth CRIMVOL virtual working paper series - The ‘My Journey’ app: Digital technology, co-production, and desistance (Gemma Morgan)
May 2022
- Paper Presenter: Dr Gemma Morgan, Senior Lecturer, Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Swansea University
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Tenth CRIMVOL virtual working paper session - Hidden Figures: A Manifesto for naming the PVS (Dr Kaitlyn Quinn and Dr Samantha McAleese)
May 2023
- Paper Presenters: Dr Kaitlyn Quinn (University of Missouri-St. Louis) and Dr Samantha McAleese (Carleton University, Ontario)
- Co-contributor: Dr Abigail Salole (Sheriden College, Ontario)
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