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Healthwatch County Durham Annual Event – Crook Leisure Centre 8th July 2025

In early July 2025, peer researchers; Abi, David and Kirsty, Lisa from Ingeus, Val from EPOP, and Kat from the University research team, went on a trip to the Healthwatch County Durham Annual Event. Healthwatch gathers feedback on people’s experiences with health and social care services and uses that information to improve services. There is a

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Unlocking creativity: using LEGO to support research in criminal justice settings 

Our final week of data collection at one of the probation hubs in the North-East got underway recently, and some of our academic research team got into the spirit of the creative methods underpinning the project, using Lego as a means to open up conversation. Participants were asked to use Lego to create a representation

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Funding success – development of training for prison officers

Led by Naomi, we are delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding to co-design mandatory training focusing on strengthening family ties with operational prison staff. The project will be delivered as a collaboration between Newcastle University, Durham University, HMPPS, Nepacs and Clinks. This work is funded as an ESRC Impact Accelerator Award (IAA)

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