Thursday 1 October 2015 10:00am to Friday 2 October 2015 4:15pm
About
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
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 Professor Sir 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