East Midlands Offender Health Research Network

The East Midlands Offender Health Research Network is hosted by the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) East Midlands and the University of Lincoln. It aims to promote and facilitate research activity across the criminal justice system in the East Midlands region.

If you have any information that you feel could be of relevance to this site (e.g. details of conferences/primary research/training opportunities that you would like to be uploaded) then please e-mail us on: csirdifield@lincoln.ac.uk 

   

Postgraduate Student Conference: Survey

The EM OHRN aim to host a mini-conference for postgraduate students conducting research in the area of criminal justice and health. This will provide the opportunity for students to network and learn about each other's research. Please contact csirdifield@lincoln.ac.uk for further information.

Prison Research Project is Throttled by Red Tape

A PhD student has written to the Times Higher Education Supplement to describe her experience of battling with red tape to complete her project. Please see article below:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=405434

Trent RDSU Study Day 

The Trent Study Day for Improving Mental Health Services in Prisons was held in Nottingham on the 12th of December. Please see notes below for further information:

Trent Study Day Notes – 12th December 2008

First Meeting of Network Steering Group

The East Midlands Offender Health Research Network Steering Group met for the first time on the 4th of December and will meet bi-annually from now on. We established that the terms of reference for this group would be in line with those of the National Offender Health Research Network as follows:

- to develop a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency network focused on offender health care innovation, evaluation and knowledge dissemination
- staff capability building through training opportunities and active involvement in health care research
- to work toward developing the frequency and quality of user/carer involvement in offender health care provision and research
- to develop a "pathway to research", outlining the processes required to successfully undertake research in the Criminal Justice System, including information on funding, research ethics and governance, and practical information about conducting research in such a unique environment

However, the group does not believe it would be working efficiently it it were to simply replicate the work of the national network, so there will be an emphasis on service user and carer involvement and network development in the East Midlands.

If you are involved with any research in this field on the East Midlands please send us a weblink to your project(s) that we can add against your name on the members list to csirdifield@lincoln.ac.uk as we would like to advertise existing offender health research in the East Midlands as much as possible.

Future plans for the network include:

- Hosting a 'trade-fair' for people actively involved in criminal justice research
- The co-ordination and support of student research (to be discussed at the next steering group meeting)
- Development of service user capacity in the meeting (to be led by Torsten Shaw from Making Waves)
- Broadening the steering group membership to include representation from agencies such as the Police and the National Probation Service

If anyone knows of anyone from the Police/probation with an interest in healthcare research or Masters/PhD students with a focus on criminal justice and health, please pass on their details to csirdifield@lincoln.ac.uk

Also, please check out the website when you can for details of conferences, seminars etc in our region

Service User Involvement in Research

One of the network's current priorities is to improve capacity for service user involvement in criminal justice research. If you are currently working on a bid for research funding and are looking to involve users of health services in the criminal justice system in your research please contact Torsten Shaw on Torsten@makingwaves.org for support with this.

Launch Event - Action Points and Presentations The East Midlands Offender Health Research Network was formally launched in Leicester on the 15th of October 2008. This was a very well attended event, and produced a number of action points: A steering group for the network will be established in the near future. This will meet twice a year to consider issues raised by members of the network e.g. how to brief commissioners to submit details of tenders for new research onto the network website. The steering group will meet for the first time in January 2009. There was general agreement that there is a strong need to improve capacity for service user involvement in research in the criminal justice system, and this will be a priority issue for the network steering group to address. Many members of the network stated that they would like it to become a place where members of the CJS can form partnerships with academics to undertake research. If you are interested in working in partnership with a University on research, then please e-mail csirdifield@lincoln.ac.uk and this information will be added onto your profile on our members list. Some members wished to see links to other networks e.g. the Mental Health Research Network included on the website. Members can e-mail any suggested links that they would like to be included on the website to csirdifield@lincoln.ac.uk PowerPoint Presentations from the launch are available below Intro to Network - C Brooker Go Directly to Jail - C Renny Pilot Dual Diagnosis Training: London Prison Service - L Hughes Ethical Issues in Prison Health Research - M Wang HM Prison Service Research Processes - S Skett Prison Research Programme - M McMurran

Contact Us:

If you have a general enquiry, or you would like to submit some research/other information for dissemination on the Research Library Portal, please contact us:

EMOHRN
Court 11,
University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool
Lincoln
LN6 7TS

csirdifield@lincoln.ac.uk
+44 (0)1522 886949