The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments

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The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments episodes

December 08, 2021 Kimberley Brownlee.The right to hope. The Philosopher in prison working with staff on the use of language. And much more
Professor Kimberley Brownlee is a philosopher. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political & Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Prior to that, she lived in the UK for close to 20 years and was a professor at the University of Warwick and senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. Her work focuses on loneliness, belonging, social human rights, punishment, conscientious belief, and civil disobedience. She is the author of two books: Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience, and of Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms. She has engaged with senior management teams in UK prisons who are working to improve the ways they speak - and think - about the people in their care.
1 hr 8 min
December 01, 2021 Jacqui Learoyd. Speech and Language Therapy in a forensic setting. Jacqui Learoyd describes her contribution to a multidisciplinary team in a new prison
Jacqui is a Speech and Language Therapist at HMP Berwyn. Hidden within the prison walls are people with various needs which are a risk to their health and wellbeing. Jacqui works across all ages from 18 to end of life, trying to support the communication needs of this marginalised group at all stages of their prison sentence. She has specific interests in de-escalating tense situations via communication, supporting competence in social communication and helping everyone understand that just because a person can talk, doesn’t mean that they are skilled in understanding and expression.
53 min
November 24, 2021 52. Kerry Beckley: Using Schema Focused Therapy (SFT) in forensic settings.
Dr Kerry Beckley is Consultant Clinical Forensic Psychologist who has worked in a range of forensic hospital and community settings. She is known for her work in developing and training others to use schema therapy in these contexts, and is an accredited trainer/supervisor in individual and group schema therapy. Having spent 23 years working for the NHS, she now runs her own independent psychology practice, primarily providing expert witness reports for parole hearings and mental health tribunals, in addition to offering clinical supervision to other practitioners. One of her latest ventures is Forensic Conversations, a webinar series that she co-hosts with fellow psychologist Dr Jackie Craisatti, where they discuss a range of topics relevant to those working in the criminal justice system, sometimes inviting guests to join them.
https://www.psychological-approaches.org/forensic-conversations.html
54 min
November 19, 2021 51. Oliver Viske of Andy‘s Man Club - How to reduce male suicide?
We have long wanted to give voice to Andy's Man Club and International Men's Day, 19th November is a good opportunity to do so.
ANDYSMANCLUB are a Men’s Mental Health Charity – Offering free-to-attend talking groups for men and challenging the stigmas around Male Mental Health. We started off as one group in the small, northern town of Halifax. That first night 9 men turned up and spoke. There was a magic in that room that everyone knew had to be shared.
We knew other guys across the country needed this same experience. We have worked tirelessly through Andy’s memory togrow our clubs. We now have 69, and we continue to grow across the UK.
Andy's Man Club is described as "a talking group, a place for men to come together in a safe environment to talk about issues and problems they have faced or are currently facing". It was formed by Luke Ambler and his mother-in-law Elaine after his brother-in-law took his own life
https://andysmanclub.co.uk/
34 min
November 17, 2021 50. Alison Liebling capturing the quality of prison life
Alison Liebling, is a British criminologist and academic. She has been Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge since 2000, and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice since 2006.
In 2016, Liebling was awarded the Perrie Award. In July 2018, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
She has written two books: Suicide in prisons and Prisons and their moral performance, as well as many other texts. Her work has been tremendously influential for a generation of criminologists and for the English and Welsh prison service.
1 hr 19 min
November 10, 2021 49. Kirstine Szifris . Teaching philosophy in a high secure prison.
Kirstine is a criminologist with ten years experience in research and evaluation. Kirstine has been working with the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University since January 2021 and has a wealth of experience evaluating programmes in and around the criminal justice system. Prior to this, Kirstine completed her PhD at Cambridge University focusing on philosophy education in prison. She has recently published a book based on her PhD work entitled Philosophy behind bars: Growth and development in prison.

Long-term prisoners need to be given the space to reflect, and grow. This ground-breaking study found that engaging prisoners in philosophy education enabled them to think about some of the ‘big’ questions in life and as a result to see themselves and others differently.
Using the prisoners’ own words, Kirstine shows the importance of this type of education for growth and development. She demonstrates how the philosophical dialogue led to a form of community which provided a space for self-reflection, pro-social interaction and communal exploration of ideas, which could have long-term positive consequences.
1 hr 9 min
November 03, 2021 48. Richard Beard. The training of our ‘elite‘. Repression of empathy in public schools
Richard Beard, prize winning author, describes his experiences at boarding school and considers how the emotionally bleak culture represses empathy. The reward is a pathway to a lucrative career.
Richard Beard’s six novels include Damascus, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Acts of the Assassins which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. His memoir, The Day That Went Missing, won the 2018 PEN Ackerley Award for literary autobiography. His new book, Sad Little Men, is about his experiences of boarding school from an early age .
41 min
October 27, 2021 47. Christina Straub: Love - the most dangerous word in prisons
Dr Christina Straub’s interest is centred around qualitative social research in general and prison research in particular. She graduated as a Cultural Scientist (MA) at the European-University-Viadrina, Germany, in 2009 with an ethnographic study about the construction of individual identity in the subculture of Hot Rodding (car culture).Her first post-grad employment as a Research Assistant for the Prisons Research Centre at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge led her into a high-security prison exploring staff-prisoner-relationships together with Prof Alison Liebling and Helen Arnold. The many stories and layers of the prison environment ever since continued to play a major role in her work. It included, for example, qualitative research for London-based charity The Forgiveness Project or looking into the specific pains and needs of families of people serving an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) together with Dr Harry Annison (Southampton Law School) and in collaboration with the Prison Reform Trust. Currently she works with Dr Kate O´Brien at Durham University on a project evaluating the Early Days in Custody programme delivered by NEPACS. She is passionate about and inspired by multidisciplinary research (using neurosciences, psychology, sociology, and moral philosophy for example) that aims to deliver holistic insights into the micro- and macro-levels of human existence, human resilience, and sustainable ways for humanity to move forward (individually, socially, and institutionally).
Christina's latest book is
Love as human virtue and human need and its role in the lives of long-term prisoners
https://www.amazon.co.uk/human-virtue-lives-long-term-prisoners/dp/1622739663/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1SPAAB22PM4C3&dchild=1&keywords=christina+straub&qid=1635156221&sprefix=christina+straub%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1
And she recommends All about Love by bell hooks
https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-About-Love-Visions-Paperback/dp/0060959479/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18F5SRYGWCS8R&dchild=1&keywords=all+about+love&qid=1635156284&sprefix=all+about+love%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Work-Jairus-McLeary-Gethin-Aldous/dp/B075GV1KG4
58 min
October 20, 2021 46. Lydia Guthrie: probation and Crittendens Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation.
Lydia Guthrie is a trainer, group facilitator and supervisor, working in criminal justice, mental health and social work settings. She spent ten years working for the Probation Service in a range of specialisms, including work with long term prisoners, and groupwork with men who have committed sexual abuse and domestic abuse. She worked as a supervisor and team manager, and also developed and delivered programmes for victims and survivors of abuse.
From 2008 to 2012, she was contracted - with Clark Baim - as co-lead national trainer for the UK's community-based sexual offending treatment programmes, run by the Probation Service for England and Wales. Before qualifying as a social worker, she gained an undergraduate degree (PPE) and an MSc in Social Work from Oxford University, and worked in the voluntary sector with adults with learning disabilities, adults with physical disabilities, and with teenagers in the "looked after" system.
Lydia is passionate about attachment theory, reflective supervision, mindfulness and self-compassion. As a believer in life-long learning, she has studied extensively in the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment and Adaptation.
1 hr 16 min
October 13, 2021 45. Luisa Schneider: Homelessness, intimacy and prisons
Luisa specialises in the anthropology of intimacy, violence and law and has been conducting compassionate, collaborative, engaged anthropological research in Sierra Leone since 2011 and in Germany since 2018. She studies how people negotiate the space to live their most intimate needs on various levels of social and legal organisation. She is particularly interested in the friction between care and control, between rights, protections and their practical realisation that arise from the divide between private and public spheres, both through the politico-legal separation between home/house and street, and through conflicting discourses regarding which areas of life states may regulate and in what way. She is interested in what laws ‘do’ and how they interact with how people govern their lives in diverse contexts. Louisa works on social issues and tries to make theory answerable to practice which means that she collaborates closely with practitioners, politicians and policy makers and actively communicates research findings in newspapers, on television and expert platforms.
Another cornerstone of her research turns inward and looks at social sciences, at the nexus between ethnographic unpredictability and institutional demands and at how we conduct and navigate research, academia and the university. She have been writing about various aspects of what we could call the ugly underbelly of anthropological work (ontological insecurity, loneliness, violence, abuse). She asks what anthropologists and institutions can and should do to challenge and deconstruct violent structures, prevent harm where possible and to offer support while taking seriously the unpredictability of human interactions?
https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/let-me-take-a-vacation-in-prison-before-the-streets-kill-me-rough

Sexual violence during research: How the unpredictability of fieldwork and the right to risk collide with academic bureaucracy and expectations.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0308275X20917272
1 hr 2 min

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