PRC Annual Research Meeting
The 2015 Annual Research meeting is to be held in Seminar rooms B3&B4 at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
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10.15 - 10.30 |
Introductions |
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10.30 - 11.00 |
Achievements and activities: making a case for person-centred social science, Alison Liebling |
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11.00 - 12.30 |
Trust, risk, faith and political charge in high security prisons, Alison Liebling |
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12.30 - 1.15 |
Lunch and posters |
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1.15 - 2.45 |
Revisiting the problems of long-term imprisonment, Ben Crewe |
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2.45 - 3.45 |
Learning from MQPL +: prisons in transition and the redistribution of power, Bethany Schmidt |
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3.45 - 4.00 |
Break |
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4.00 - 5.15 |
Discussion: the state and nature of prisons research. Invited contributions from Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms, Professor Yvonne Jewkes, Professor Dirk Van Zyl Smit, and Professor Roy King. |
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5.30 - 6.30 |
Business meeting (Steering group only)
Followed by a drinks reception and dinner at Trinity Hall Trinity Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ |
Friday 2 October
Current prisons research, its role and impact
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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 |
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12.30 - 1.15 |
Lunch |
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1.15 - 2.45 |
Current research and its relationship to practice, I |
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- 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 |
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2.45 - 3.00 |
Break |
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3.00 - 4.15 |
Current research and its relationship to practice, II |
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- Academic research in a politicized time? Working on immigration detention, Mary Bosworth - Prison officers: Space and place, Borah Kant - A DCC Perspective, Alan Scott |
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4.15 - 4.20 |
Thanks and closure |