This free​ hybrid event will take place in-person and online to facilitate F2F and online participation. COVID-permitting, the in-person event will be on campus at the University of Nottingham, 3.30-5.30pm February 24th, 2022. The event will focus on COVID and imprisonment with the following speakers:

Professor Lynn Saunders OBE = Prison leadership during COVID

Dr Olga Suhomlinova = Transgender and non-binary prisoners and COVID

Steve Bravery = COVID prison risk assessment, risk reduction, and remote reviews during COVID

Paula Harriott & PPN = Covid-19 Action Prisons Project: Tracking Innovation, Valuing Experience

Oscar O'Mara = A prison ethnography PhD during COVID

You can join the online event via Teams

This event is organised by the Midlands branch of the British Society of Criminology (which is led by the universities of Derby, Wolverhampton, and Nottingham) and the University of Nottingham's Criminal Justice Research Centre. The event organising committee is: Jess Egan (Derby), David Patton (Derby), Mel Jordan (Nottingham), Vicky Kemp (Nottingham), Larissa Sandy (Nottingham), Kate Moss (Derby), Soenita Ganpat (Derby), Yasmin Devi-Mcgleish (Wolverhampton), Kate Williams, (Wolverhampton), Emily Gray (Derby), and Jasper Donelan (Nottingham).

COVID-permitting there will be a drinks reception to end the event. If you have any queries, please email: melanie.jordan@nottingham.ac.uk