Forensic Research Group

I've had fun helping BBC Ideas produce this animation, which attempts to explain Bayesian ideas in 4 minutes. I hope you like it - I really like the animators style. bbc.co.uk/videos/c78ee07…

Annual Forensic Psychiatry Research Society meeting will be on Thursday 20 November at Pembroke College, Oxford. New research in the morning, with a risk assessment masterclass in the afternoon. Sign up using link - there's a fee to cover food/coffees: eventbrite.co.uk/e/forensic-psy…

Our new analysis of suicide mortality in prison highlights the need for a national strategy to remove ligatures. Having a few ‘safe cells’ per prison is not adequate.

Nice blogpost introduction to Hannah Dickson's latest work on predictors of violent recidivism @ADR_UK adruk.org/news-publicati…

Environmental risk factors for self-harm during imprisonment: pilot prospective cohort study by @tdgstephenson in HMP Wandsworth: single cell accommodation and frequent cell changes associated with self harming behaviours shorturl.at/NAMQA

ADR UK is funding 5 fellows to conduct analysis using the @MoJGovUK-@educationgovuk linked datasets, including Hannah Dickson from KCL, who will investigate violent reoffending risk assessments. Details of all 5 funded projects here: shorturl.at/TNddq

Short Cuts lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

Congratulations to @Gboye_ogunwale as he completes his prison mental heath PhD dataset in Ilaro! Looking forward to the analysis stage @KingsIoPPN

Sentencing Review 'to end prison crisis' gov.uk/government/new…

Helpful discussion with Richard Latham about the duties and responsibilities of expert witnesses (partic. psychiatric witnesses) Spotify: bit.ly/4f5xp6f

Job alert! Postdoc in computational neuroscience of social decision making (with focus on social rule learning) w/ me, @NeuroecologyLab & @FrancescPoli. Read more about it here: tinyurl.com/353v5kjf

Today marks a big step in my career as I start a PhD in the Forensic & Neurodevtl Sci dept at IoPPN @forensicrg 📕📜 I'll be looking at during-imprisonment predictors of self-harm for people in prison, sup'd by Prof Nigel Blackwood, Prof @seenafazel & Dr @Emma_FacerIrwin

Forensic mental health researchers - next Forensic Psychiatry Research Society meeting on 21 November 2024 at Pembroke College, Oxford. Details and registration forms to come.

Education staff in PRUs feel ill-equipped to support their pupils and lacked access to effective inter-agency support...great to see another MSc research project out in print...congratulations to Dennis Kaip shorturl.at/v6hlD

What should we do with our Victorian prisons? @TheHowardLeague briefing has interesting new proposal to minimise problems of antiquated living conditions while maximising potential of their urban locations buff.ly/3LXStPJ

Reflecting on the Wandsworth inspection, @charlie_taylor6 said "The appalling conditions at Wandsworth did not appear overnight and are the result of sustained decline permitted to happen in plain view of leaders in the jail." Read the full report here: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/?post_type=hmi…

Come and join us! New Clinical Lecturer post...great chance to become a clinical academic by pursuing an MD(Res), joining our MSc education team and working with SLaM in an inpatient forensic setting

Are you a nurse/nurse associate/assistant in secure mental healthcare? please consider taking part in this research.

Our viewpoint piece on the future of forensic mental health research is now available in Lancet Psychiatry. Open access for 50 days through link here (1/2) authors.elsevier.com/a/1jKni7tf1d8r…

The full judgment in Rex -v- Calocane is now available online: judiciary.uk/judgments/rex-…