Dr Lauren Smith and Prof Todd Hogue (along with Anthony Ellis in the School of Social and Political Sciences) have been awarded £800 from the Policy Hub Fund to recruit a student to analyse data on behalf of Lincolnshire Police on their Police Education Scheme. The findings will be used to inform a larger scale bid.  ..read more

Prof Todd Hogue, Dr Lauren Smith, and Dr Tochs Onwuegbusi have completed a report for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Lincolnshire:  Hogue, T.E., Smith, L., Mason, R., & Onwuegbusi, T. (Oct, 2023). An Evaluation of the Safer Together Team, Unpublished Report, University of Lincoln ..read more

Lauren Smith and Rachael Mason from the FCRG, along with Amanda Robert, Jim Rogers, and Thomas George have been awarded £15,000 to conduct an evaluation of Substance Misuse and Housing Grants on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council.  ..read more

Prof Todd Hogue (colleague Daniel Mills from School of Life Sciences) received an Innovation Voucher award of £8,245.44 to work with the RSPCA to develop a bite risk triage tool for use by RSPCA Welfare Officers.   Todd also received a Research Impact Support Fund award of £3,376.40, for HDA-25 Application to Dog Bite Fatalities to work with PhD Candidate Helen Howell and Prof Daniel Mills to better understand the causes of UK dog bite fatalities ..read more

Rachael Dagnall has been successful in receiving funding to undertake a research project evaluating the effectiveness of the Changing Futures project (Sheffield). Changing Futures aims to support people who have been identified as experiencing multiple disadvantages. The programme seeks to engage and work with the most excluded adults and is specifically designed for individuals who have previously experienced challenges engaging with existing support services ..read more

On the 8-10th November 2023, the Division of Forensic Psychology held their annual conference in Belfast. Some members of the FCRG went along to the conference to present. On the 8th Nov, Dr Phil Willmot gave a full workshop on “A trauma-informed approach to therapeutic boundaries in forensic settings” to forensic practitioners and researchers. On the 9th Nov, Rachael Dagnall presented the emerging findings from an ESRC-funded project exploring the experience of those living and working in prison during the Covid-19 pandemic.     Elizabeth Deehan (who re ..read more

On the 5th October, Dr Phil Willmot presented at the BPS Division of Forensic Psychology Scotland on “Trauma-informed Forensic Practice: Challenges and Opportunities”.  ..read more

Dr Lauren Smith and colleagues in the prison governor well-being team have contributed to a newly published special edition of The Prison Service Journal on prison staff well-being.   The full edition (September 2023, No 268) can be accessed here:  https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/sites/crimeandjustice.org.uk/files/PSJ%20268%20September%202023.pdf.    It includes the following articles:  Smith, L.  (2023).  Losing Faith in the Service:  A path to disenchantment among Governor Grades.   Ward, S & Smith, L.&n ..read more

On 30th Aug – 1st Sept 2023, Ross Bartels and Hannah Merdian presented at the 17th IATSO conference in Trondheim (Norway). Ross presented the findings of a study designed and conducted with Federico Vanni (a previous intern from the University of Padua). The talk was entitled “Do the Sexual Fantasies of Minor-Attracted People Differ Depending on the Target?”. As an Editor-in-Chief for IATSO’s journal (SOTRAP), Ross also attended the editors meeting at the conference.  Hannah presented a talk showcasing findings from a collaborative project with ‘Stop it ..read more

FCRG member Phil Willmot, along with ex-MSc student Alex Mason, has published a new study in the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology entitled ‘Institutional Firesetting in a Forensic Inpatient Population’ In the study, the characteristics and firesetting histories of 32 patients with histories of institutional firesetting in a secure psychiatric unit in the UK were examined. Only six patients (18.8%) had a prior conviction for firesetting, while a further eight (25.0%) had a history of firesetting but no conviction. All institutional firesetting was carried out alo ..read more