The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments

101. Ben Hine. Lived experience as a child who experienced parental alienation.

 
Since joining the psychology department at UWL in 2014, Ben has engaged in a number of projects in the area of applied gender and forensic psychology. For example, he has explored the manifestation of gender within the criminal justice system, specifically the impact of rape myths in the progression of female and male cases through the criminal justice system. This includes two large-scale projects assessing police officers' beliefs and judgements, and rape case reviews in collaboration with the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC). He has also worked in collaboration with charities Safelives and The Mankind Initiative to conduct large scale case reviews to illuminate the needs of domestic violence victims. In this area, he is particularly interested in exploring stereotypes around hidden victims of domestic abuse (specifically LGBTQIA+ and male victims). He now leads the Evidence-Based Domestic Abuse Research Network (EBDARN) bringing together researchers from several UK institutions to deliver this work. Other interests include the exploration of representations of gender in the media (e.g., in Disney movies).
Hine, B. A., & Hine, I. J. (in press). Fathers and Intimate Partner Violence: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Current Literature on Men’s experiences of Parental Alienation. In E. A. Bates & J. C. Taylor (Eds.) Domestic Violence Against Men and Boys: Experiences of Male Victims of Intimate Partner Violence. London, UK: Taylor & Francis 
Hine, B. A., & Appiah, B. (2022). Identifying and understanding the needs of cisgendered, heterosexual male and LGBT+ survivors of domestic violence and abuse in seeking and accessing safe accommodation. Wokingham Borough Council.  
Hine, B. A., Mackay, J., Baguley, T., Graham-Kevan, N., Cunliffe, M., & Galloway, A. (2022). Understanding Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Home Office.

100. Sophie King Hill. Children, sex and sexuality. How to talk about an embarassing subject.

Sophie King-Hill is a senior fellow at the Health Service Management Centre at theUniversity of Birmingham. Previously she was a lecturer in Education and Inclusion atWoucester University. She has extensive experience with the 3rd sector and specialises insexual behaviours and how these relate to young people. Sophie has most recentlywritten about managing the fall out of sibling sexual abuse.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/car.2664
https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/abs/10.12968/bjsn.2015.10.5.231

99. Emma Beckerle.Microdosing and brain health

Emma Beckerle  
Emma has spent her career leading, building and scaling up rapid-growth businesses in the travel, restaurant and cannabis industries and she’s been highly successful across each of these industries.  She is also founder of ABO Performance which supports small and early stage businesses in the cannabis, psychedelics and technology industries. Emma’s very knowledgeable about the medicinal and microdosing use of cannabis and psychedelics so we’re delighted to give you chance to listen to Emma today.
https://www.aboperformance.com/
And if you get the chance watch the Netflix series 'How to change your mind'.
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80229847

98. Gilbert Grieve. Social Prescribing

Gilbert Grieve is an experienced Manager, Trainer and Adviser with a history of working in the information services and Commnunity Development industry. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Social Enterprise, Crisis Intervention, Facilitation, and Fundraising. Strong professional completing an MSc focused in psychology from Northumbria University. He has experience in collaboration with public sector in development of community services and co production, also previous community representative on community planning and health partnerships. involved in developing the efqm framework for Scottish infrastructure organisations and efqm assessor and managed two separate organisations through Investors in People and EFQM Accreditation. Hold SVQ 4 management accredited by the Chartered Management Institute. expert in organisational development, staff training and development with experience in developing numerous organisations from planning stage to operations delivery. currently working in wellbeing identifying issues and support packages for patients from general practice with anxiety and stress problems.
 
This link takes you to research on the value of social prescribing,
 
https://repository.uel.ac.uk/download/b166f8139440a6183a11e5756431965c13846b3c8716079c07ec309a5d258586/1290254/Final%20evaluation%20draft%20report%20Redbridge%20SP%20100920%20final.pdf

97. Rachel-Rose Burrell. Racism in Mental Health Work.

Rachel-Rose Burrell is a qualified and accredited counsellor/psychotherapist with a broad range of experience designing and delivering mental health awareness, counselling skills, stress management, and personal and professional development training programmes on a local, national and international level.  She is Therapy Manager at the Democratic Therapeutic Community at HMP Send, the only DTC for women prisoners in europe and possibly the world.
 
Dr Burrell has many years’ experience and a track record of developing counselling services within education, the voluntary sector and churches. She is a member of the leadership team at her local church and developed and leads an inclusive and wholistic well-being service, as a psychotherapist she is driven to empower leaders and people in general to experience life to their full potential. 
 
Dr Burrell has completed a research study investigating how faith and a church community impact mental health and well-being particularly within Black Majority churches in the UK. The products and resources are products of that research with a view to inform, educate and equip readers. 
 

96. Joe Sabien.The therapeutic value of Blue Space

Joe Sabien is Founder and CEO of Sea Sanctuary a unique mental health charity rooted in the concept of “blue health”.  Sea Sanctuary has been nominated for and won an impressive array of awards including winner of the Google and Sainsbury’s award for innovation, winner of Support Worker Category and Best Newcomer Award for the National Children and Young People’s Awards 2020 among others.  Sea Sanctuary has also been commissioned by the NHS for 6 years and is an approved psychological provider for Cornwall Council and Dorset, Devon and Cornwall police.
https://seasanctuary.org.uk/

95. Hannah Wilkinson .Why are so many veterans in prison?

Hannah Wilkinson recently joined the University of Nottingham as Assistant Professor of Criminology and is a member of the Criminal Justice Research Centre. Prior to that, she was a Lecturer in Criminology at Keele University. Hannah’s research interests lie in the areas of war, state crime and social harm. In particular, she is interested in the complex implications of 21st century conflict for former military personnel.
You can find her most recent publication here https://t.co/haB3aOapDJ and you can see her talking at the Argentine Ambassador's residence this summer here https://www.academia.edu/video/l8bW8j
Hannah completed her doctoral research under the supervision of Professor Ronnie Lippens, Dr. Evi Girling, and Dr. Samantha Weston at Keele University. The PhD thesis is entitled: ‘No Man’s Land? Veterans’ experiences of 21st century warfare and the return to post-conflict life’. Hannah uses in-depth qualitative and visual methodology, drawing theoretical inspiration from the works of Pierre Bourdieu on the (re)production of power and inequality within society, and from Zygmunt Bauman on the fluidity and precariousness of modern life. 
She has worked with Staffordshire and Birmingham based charities to support criminalised veterans. This has involved sharing research findings and developing a training programme for practitioners. In addition, Hannah has worked as a Research Associate alongside Dr. Samantha Weston on projects with Re-Solv – around early intervention and prevention of volatile substance abuse, and with Staffordshire Police, evaluating the child sexual exploitation (CSE) prevention programme. 
Hannah is a member of the European Society of Criminology, the British Society of Criminology, the Defence Research Network, and the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control.
Her current work explores the embodied traces of the ‘war on terror’ and lived experience of austerity for former British military personnel. She is also working on an article that draws attention to the warning signs of fascism amid the UK government’s response to Covid-19.

94. Dino Nocivelli Sexual abuse in institutions

Dino Nocivelli is a lawyer specialising in child sexual abuse claims.  He has a huge wealth of experience from taking action in cases involving abuse in football and other sports; within religious organisations especially the Roman Catholic Church and Church of England; sexual abuse in the scouts, in the military and by others in positions of authority.
 Recently he has been instructed to investigate allegations of childhood sexual abuse in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s at Horris Hill School a private school in Berkshire. Most recently to investigate allegations of childhood sexual abuse in the 1980s at Sutton Valence School, a private school in Kent.
 
He's provided evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and is highly sought after for expert commentary in the media so we’re very lucky to have the chance to talk with himDino has appeared in a significant number of media publications providing his expert opinion and commentary, to include the BBC News and Radio, ITV, LBC Radio and a number of national and local newspapers to include articles for the Guardian and the Times. Dino has provided his expert opinion to a number of international media outlets and he also regularly provides external training sessions on child abuse law and conducts numerous charity talks every year. He has also provided comments for documentaries and books on a range of issues.
Leigh Day are presenting a free webinar with a wonderful list of speakers, on abuse in sport. The link is here,
https://twitter.com/SportSafeguard/status/1560960889804754946/photo/1
He has provided evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and has been asked to comment extensively upon the Inquiry by a number of national newspapers and other media outlets.
 

93. Nicoleta Porojanu. From trauma to self discovery and healing

Nicoleta Porojanu.  Born and raised in challenging circumstances Nicoleta had several careers before becoming  an applied psychologist, a psychotherapist and an educator and now she seeks to help people navigate painful transitions.  She has her own inspirational story about navigating painful experiences and not getting stuck in the pain so we’ve really been looking forward to this conversation. She is a specialist in transgenerational trauma and founded the charity The Significant You.
https://thesignificantyou.org/

92. Ray Bishop. Outlaw - A personal story of crime, addictions and recovery

David first met Ray Bishop when he came to HMP Grendon in 2003. He did well there and moved on towards release. It was not an easy path and Ray's tendency towards self destructive and addictive behaviour caused him to seek support and treatment several more times. Ray is the author of Outlaw a book based upon his experiences growing up in a council estate in South East London. Ray tells all of his early days of petty crime. Being despatched to notoriously violent youth-detention centres where he was further criminalized he graduated with flying colours to a career in London's underworld as an armed robber, a drug smuggler and a people trafficker, developing a serious addiction to cocaine and heroin along the way.But Ray's is also story of redemption, of coming back from rock bottom and learning lessons the hard back. Enrolling in a rigorous rehabilitation programme, Ray turned his life around. He went on to realise his childhood dream of becoming British Middleweight Boxing Champion, setting up his own business and advocating for others along the way.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Outlaw-Became-Britains-Most-Wanted-ebook/dp/B00IZK2XKM
 
Transcript is available here:
 
https://open.substack.com/pub/lockedupliving/p/ray-bishop-from-outlaw-to-entrepreneur?r=216eb0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

91. Mary Haley.Psychotherapy in HMP Grendon therapeutic communities

Mary Haley was until very recently Head of Psychotherapy at HMP Grendon the only fully therapeutic prison in the UK and which incidentally celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2022. She is now Head of Training and Development also at Grendon.
We are very pleased to be talking with Mary because she has had an unusual career pathway working in different roles within the prison service. These roles include prison officer, governor, inreach psychotherapist and wing therapist on a therapeutic community.

90. Paul Gately talks about the emotional cost of the obesity epidemic.

Paul Gately is Director of MoreLife and a Professor of Exercise and Obesity at Leeds Beckett University, he is the Co-Director of the Obesity Institute at Leeds Beckett University.  Paul was the Principle Investigator on Public Health England’s Whole Systems Approach to Obesity and he is the Co-director of the Centre for Applied Obesity Research. His primary research interest is child and adult obesity treatment strategies but also the wider determinants of obesity.  Paul has delivered over 600 presentations and scientific publications, as well as numerous policy documents on obesity treatment, whole systems approaches to obesity and physical activity promotion. 
 
https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carnegie-xchange/2022/02/professor-paul-gately-obesity-institute/
 
https://www.more-life.co.uk/morelifeteam/paul-gately/

89. Dave Harris Boxing, dementia and the need for specialist care

Dave Harris is a former amateur boxer as well as having worked as a trainer, manager and promoter of boxers.  He is founder of the British Boxing Hall of Fame and also founded the Ringside Trust which is a charity aspiring to create a residential home for former boxers. He also worked for many years in the social services sector managing residential homes.
 
https://ringsiderestandcare.com/

88. Ally Fogg. Men and Boys Coalition co-founder on campaigning for justice for both women and men

This conversation is with writer, journalist, and co-founder of the men's men and boys coalition Ally Fogg. Ally is used to writing for national press. So is someone who has well thought out arguments around many issues that relate to men and boys.
Ally Fogg is a writer and journalist who has written extensively on men and boys’ issues for the Guardian and many other national and international media outlets. His work has always closely involved social and political activism, with many years in the not-for-profit and charitable sectors, including periods as staff writer for Big Issue in the North and developing community media in disadvantaged inner city areas. He lives in Manchester with two sons, two dogs, two cats and two guitars. Ally is a co-founder and Trustee of the Men and Boys Coalition.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/19/international-mens-day
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20161116145929/http://freethoughtblogs.com/hetpat/2016/11/15/introducing-the-men-and-boys-coalition-how-the-british-mens-sector-has-come-of-age/
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20180901025653/http://www.inside-man.co.uk/2018/08/21/masculinity-isnt-toxic-debate/
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20180301213201/https://freethoughtblogs.com/hetpat/2017/12/13/masculinity-the-personal-the-political-and-the-economic/
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20160506164951/http://freethoughtblogs.com/hetpat/2016/05/06/the-last-great-masculine-delusion-what-even-grayson-perry-doesnt-get/
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20161119130129/http://freethoughtblogs.com/hetpat/2016/03/31/defining-gender-inclusive-politics/
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20160401050357/http://freethoughtblogs.com/hetpat/2016/01/12/medway-male-violence-and-invisibilisation/
 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/12/male-victims-abuse-violence-support-policy

87. Laura Hamilton. Boundary breaking and boundary keeping in forensic settings

Laura has such great clinical and academic experience that we could have talked with her about many things but in this episode we focus on how her thinking on boundaries developed as she worked in the challenging setting of a new personality disorder unit.
Laura Hamilton is a Registered and Chartered Forensic Psychologist and Senior Lecturer. Working in forensic practice for 20 years, she has specialised in the assessment and treatment of trauma and personality disorder with individuals who have convictions. She is an innovative practitioner often working at the cutting edge of clinical practice and seeking new ways of enhancing forensic interventions. She conducted the first trials of Radically Open- Dialectical Behavioural (RODBT) Therapy with forensic service users and was part of the development team which trialled Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT). Laura is trained in a range of treatment modalities, including CAT, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, RODBT, EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. As an academic she developed postgraduate courses for forensic psychologists in-training, and delivers specialist teaching, supervision and workshops on a range of applied clinical forensic issues. Her research interests are in applied boundary studies, overcontrol and trauma.

86. Robert Canton . Anger and Disgust in the criminal justice system

In this conversation Rob considers the place of emotions across the criminal justice spectrum.
Rob Canton is Professor in Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Before joining De Montfort, he worked in the Probation Service for some 20 years in a number of different roles. Rob has guested on the podcast before. Rob has contributed to probation development and general penal reform in more than ten different countries, mostly in Europe. He served on the Council of Europe to develop and revise European Rules relating to probation and acted as a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Justice Select Committee in its Inquiry into the Role of the Probation Service (2010 -11).Rob has written a number of articles and book chapters as well as authoring a number of books. His latest book is Punishment in the Key ideas in Criminology series. He kindly sent us a chapter to read in preparation for  this podcast and its great to have another opportunity to speak with himtoday.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Punishment-Key-Ideas-Criminology-Canton-ebook/dp/B0B455ZJZ3/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1656437431&refinements=p_27%3ARob+Canton&s=books&sr=1-4

85. Alexander Oviawe. ”Too inner city” How a (racist) phrase can affect your mental health

This week our podcast conversation may seem a little different. But we are still seeking methods and activities which provide opportunities for stress relief and deveopment.
Alexander Oviawe is a former physiologist and founder of a tech start up that used different ways to model physical stress.  During the difficult period of shutting down the start up, he became clinically depressed and developed generalised anxiety disorder.   After receiving help, Alexander became fascinated with heart rate variability, psychophysiology and technology.  He is working with University of East London to explore the use of HRV and emotional regulation. He now leads a company developing web based applications to monitor Heart rate variation (HRV), see the link to the free app below.
PsychogenX Explorer is a web application used by practitioners as a client support tool to remotely observe and assess emotional regulation and wellness changes. Along with the Explorer web app, PsychogenX comes with a Client Wellness App; a scientifically-validated wellness app  that turns your client's smartphone into a powerful biofeedback device to help quantify psychophysiological changes.
Find a link to the app here
https://psychogenx.health/
See two papwers related to the method here.
https://www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/private-practice/september-2021/how-the-body-responds-to-racism/
https://psychogenx.medium.com/how-to-use-heart-rate-variability-for-psychotherapy-2e386bb2a0bf
 
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15 minute submission to Pod of the Year, Wellness category

We submitted to the Podcast of the Year Awards and have been shortlisted for one category. (Hooray!!) Please can you vote for us.
Go to this link, type in The Locked Up Living podcast and follow the link to post for us.
https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote
and you can see all of the podcasts and 15 minute submissions here
https://lockedupliving.podbean.com/
This is what we wrote about the podcast;
Locked Up Living is on a mission to challenge the silo thinking that pervades macho organisations such as the criminal justice system by covering subjects that are directly relevant but haven’t yet had enough visibility to become influential. We have featured guests tackling subjects with innovative implications for custodial settings (and other toxic organisations); several of our guests would be considered radical thinkers and we’ve covered subjects that forensic practitioners are often frightened to talk or even think about. We are particularly interested in guests whose work shines a spotlight on the challenges to those who live and work in locked environments and ways to overcome the barriers to well-being that these obstacles raise. We are especially interested in emotional literacy and health. Our podcast is popular with those researching or working in prisons and other locked or challenging environments including criminologists, psychologists, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals. This was David and Naomi’s first foray into podcasting. Started as a lockdown spare-time venture, neither has any experience of audio planning and production so we’ve had to develop skills as we go along. Several of our listeners are academics who’ve recommended our podcast to their students and the positive feedback we’ve received has encouraged us to continue beyond lockdown. We are regularly approached by people wanting to appear
on the podcast to promote their work.
Our weekly podcast was downloaded 14k times during the course of the year.

15 minute submission. Christoph Heubner Poet, Vive Chair International Auschwitz Committee.

We submitted to the Podcast of the Year Awards and have been shortlisted for one category. (Hooray!!) Please can you vote for us.
Go to this link, type in The Locked Up Living podcast and follow the link to post for us.
https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote
 
This is what we wrote about the podcast;
Locked Up Living is on a mission to challenge the silo thinking that pervades machoorganisations such as the criminal justice system by covering subjects that are directlyrelevant but haven’t yet had enough visibility to become influential. We have featuredguests tackling subjects with innovative implications for custodial settings (and other toxicorganisations); several of our guests would be considered radical thinkers and we’vecovered subjects that forensic practitioners are often frightened to talk or even think about.We are particularly interested in guests whose work shines a spotlight on the challenges tothose who live and work in locked environments and ways to overcome the barriers to well-being that these obstacles raise. We are especially interested in emotional literacy andhealth. Our podcast is popular with those researching or working in prisons and otherlocked or challenging environments including criminologists, psychologists,psychotherapists and other mental health professionals.This was David and Naomi’s first foray into podcasting. Started as a lockdown spare-timeventure, neither has any experience of audio planning and production so we’ve had todevelop skills as we go along. Several of our listeners are academics who’ve recommendedour podcast to their students and the positive feedback we’ve received has encouraged usto continue beyond lockdown. We are regularly approached by people wanting to appearon the podcast to promote their work.Our weekly podcast was downloaded 14k times during the course of the year.

15 minute submission to Podcast of the Year Awards, Current affairs. Prison Governor,9/11 victim, public school, the police, disgust.

We submitted to the Podcast of the Year Awards and have been shortlisted for one category. (Hooray!!) Please can you vote for us.
Go to this link, type in The Locked Up Living podcast and follow the link to post for us.
https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote
 
This is what we wrote about the podcast;
Locked Up Living is on a mission to challenge the silo thinking that pervades machoorganisations such as the criminal justice system by covering subjects that are directlyrelevant but haven’t yet had enough visibility to become influential. We have featuredguests tackling subjects with innovative implications for custodial settings (and other toxicorganisations); several of our guests would be considered radical thinkers and we’vecovered subjects that forensic practitioners are often frightened to talk or even think about.We are particularly interested in guests whose work shines a spotlight on the challenges tothose who live and work in locked environments and ways to overcome the barriers to well-being that these obstacles raise. We are especially interested in emotional literacy andhealth. Our podcast is popular with those researching or working in prisons and otherlocked or challenging environments including criminologists, psychologists,psychotherapists and other mental health professionals.This was David and Naomi’s first foray into podcasting. Started as a lockdown spare-timeventure, neither has any experience of audio planning and production so we’ve had todevelop skills as we go along. Several of our listeners are academics who’ve recommendedour podcast to their students and the positive feedback we’ve received has encouraged usto continue beyond lockdown. We are regularly approached by people wanting to appearon the podcast to promote their work.Our weekly podcast was downloaded 14k times during the course of the year.