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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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Drum roll please – introducing the Improving Health and Care Outcomes After Custody infographic and animation!

In collaboration with Nifty Fox, we are delighted to unveil a static infographic and animation which we have created as an accessible way to explain our project and what we hope to achieve. We hope that you like it – please share this far and wide!

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Divided Households goes international – COPE Conference 2025, Malta

This week Steph and Naomi attended the Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) conference which was held in Valletta, Malta. Here, we presented some of our findings and next steps at Networking Corner. Highlights from the conference included a fantastic presentation from the Parental Imprisonment Collective and even a visit from the President of Malta!

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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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