Julie Parsons, Rob Giles and Daniela Chivers: the i-poem giving voice to stigmatised storytellers.

September 2, 2020

This blog post draws on data from a ‘Finishing Time’ (FT) project*, that makes use of timelines and images with graduates from a prisoner resettlement scheme (LandWorks), in research encounters that aim to map/chart their journeys beyond prison or community punishment. The focus is on the collaborative processes involved in creating audio visual work that … More Julie Parsons, Rob Giles and Daniela Chivers: the i-poem giving voice to stigmatised storytellers.

Kitrina Douglas & David Carless: Reflection on a journey into the unknown

June 11, 2020

It’s November in England’s most southerly and westerly county, Cornwall, home to wreckers and smugglers, sea mists and winter swells that break the hulls of vessels and undermine the strengths of cliffs. Of course, most of the vessels driven over savage rocks have long gone. Yet, their skeletons or exposed ribs can sometimes be spotted … More Kitrina Douglas & David Carless: Reflection on a journey into the unknown

Collage

November 9, 2017

Originally posted on Collaborations In Research:
Collage: “A composition of objects that do not touch – but nonetheless participate in the same intimacy” (Matisse in the Studio, Exhibition, Royal Academy 2017) Andy: It was with a certain amount of trepidation that I gazed upon the pastels, paints, wool, glitter and marker pens spread across the table…

Ruth Armstrong and Amy Ludlow: What’s so good about participation? Discomforts, harms and potential.

November 8, 2017

Dr Ruth Armstrong and Dr Amy Ludlow from Cambridge University, Wednesday 23rd August 2017, The Old Hall, Girton College Cambridge, with a response from Dr Geraldine Brown, Coventry University. Abstract: Drawing on our experiences over the last four years of building learning communities of students within higher education and criminal justice organisations, this presentation will … More Ruth Armstrong and Amy Ludlow: What’s so good about participation? Discomforts, harms and potential.

Fergus McNeill: Distant Voices, Coming Home…

October 24, 2017

Professor Fergus McNeill, University of Glasgow, Wednesday August 23rd 2017, The Old Hall, Girton College, Cambridge, with a response from Sarah Hocking, project Coordinator for LandWorks CIO. Abstract: This workshop combines presentation, performance and discussion in order to explain and explore the ‘Distant Voices: Coming Home’ project. This 3-year ESRC funded project blurs the boundaries … More Fergus McNeill: Distant Voices, Coming Home…

Nick Hardwick: experts by experience: prisoners as researchers, ethical and practical problems…

October 15, 2017

Professor Nick Hardwick, Royal Holloway, University of London, Tuesday 22nd August 2017, room C16, Girton College, Cambridge, with response from Andy Whiteford, University of Plymouth. Abstract: This presentation will focus on presenting and leading discussion on the possible ethical and practical challenges on working with prisoners as researchers – as participants rather than subjects – … More Nick Hardwick: experts by experience: prisoners as researchers, ethical and practical problems…

Nicola Harding

Nicola Harding: picturing subjugated knowledge, an argument for creative criminology

October 15, 2017

Nicola Harding, Leeds Trinity University, Wednesday 23rd August 2017,  The Old Hall, Girton College, Cambridge, with a response from Dr Jonathan Harvey, Plymouth Marjon University. Abstract: Constructing the everyday experiences of women subject to punishment in the community as subjugated knowledge poses methodological challenges. Challenges that feminist criminology and visual criminology have the potential to … More Nicola Harding: picturing subjugated knowledge, an argument for creative criminology