2015 Annual Conference Agenda

PRC Annual Research Meeting

Rooms B3 and B4 - Institute of Criminology

Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA

Thursday 1 October

10.15 - 10.30

Introductions

10.30 - 11.00

Achievements and activities: making a case for person-centred social science, Alison Liebling

11.00 - 12.30

Trust, risk, faith and political charge in high security prisons, Alison Liebling

12.30 - 1.15

Lunch and posters 

1.15 - 2.45

Revisiting the problems of long-term imprisonment, Ben Crewe

2.45 - 3.45

Learning from MQPL +: prisons in transition and the redistribution of power, Bethany Schmidt

3.45 - 4.00

Break 

4.00 - 5.15

Discussion: the state and nature of prisons research. Invited contributions from ProfessorSir Anthony Bottoms,Professor Yvonne Jewkes, Professor Dirk Van Zyl Smit, and Professor Roy King.

5.30 - 6.30

Business meeting (Steering group only) 

Followed by a drinks reception and dinner at Trinity Hall

Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ
19.00 onwards

Friday 2 October

Current prisons research, its role and impact

10.30 - 12.30

Panel: The relationship between research, reform, advocacy and activism.

 -          Challenging Assumptions: law, criminology and the university, Professor Noel Whitty

-          Research and Reform – The best and the worst of two worlds, Professor Sonja Snacken

-          Research and reform – re-connecting prison and society in the 21st century, Dr Peter Scharff Smith

-          Working with but not for – on ambivalent engagements between local NGOs and prison authorities in the South, Dr Andrew Jefferson

12.30 - 1.15

Lunch 

1.15 - 2.45

Current research and its relationship to practice, I 

-          Keeping it impersonal: Developing perspectives through philosophical dialogue with prisoners, Kirstine Szifris

-          Democratizing prisons: An ethnographic exploration of politics, resistance, and civility behind bars, Bethany Schmidt

-          Learning together, Ruth Armstrong and Amy Ludlow

-          Exploring the relationship between MQPL and recidivism, Katherine Auty

2.45 - 3.00

Break

3.00 - 4.15

Current research and its relationship to practice, II

-          Academic research in a politicized time? Working on immigration detention, Mary Bosworth

-          Prison officers: Space and place, Borah Kant

-          A DCC Perspective, Alan Scott

 4.15 - 4.20

Thanks and closure