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

113. Dalton Harrison. The poet talks about being a trans man in the english prison system.

David first had the pleasure of meeting Dalton when visiting Ripon House, an exceptional approved premises for women in Leeds. Dalton had left the hostel some time earlier but returned to share some of his experiences with me and my colleagues. Dalton Harrison is the founder of StandFast Productions (a collective of ex-offenders who use art and performance to tell their stories) and has worked as a teaching assistant with the Inside-Out Project at Durham University.Dalton has written articles for Inside Time, Pink News and Sister Magazine x TGN, and has delivered poetry workshops alongside Durham book. He has performed at Leeds Poetry Festival s. He continues to take talks on prison issues using poetry across the country. His poetry has been published in the award-winning anthology Bloody Amazing and TransVerse II: No Time For Silence. The book The Boy Behind the Wall is his first solo collection.

112. Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes. The human consequences of prison architecture

Video link which includes Alberto's diagrams is here: https://youtu.be/qDRqJ93shLM
Dr Alberto Urrutia-Moldes, originally from Chile, holds a PhD in prison architecture from the University ofSheffield. He is a Lecturer in Construction in the partnership program of the University ofBath Spa and GBS in Manchester, UK. He is also a Lecturer in prison built environment atthe Centre for Public Innovation in Latin America (InnovaPublica), and an internationalconsultant in prison architecture. As a consultant, he is currently working on the evaluation ofcarceral conditions and their alignment with the Nelson Mandela Rules in the prison servicesof Bolivia and Honduras.Alberto has a BSc in Construction Engineering and a BSc in Industrial Engineering. After fiveyears of managing constructions for the private sector, he worked for 15 years in the Bio-Bioregional office of the Chilean prison service, as head of planning and heading thearchitecture and construction office, working on the delivery of capital refurbishments andupgrades of 24 prison and probation facilities across 13 cities in the region. In 2012 he co-organised the first conference in prison architecture held in Chile and co-edited the book 1stSeminar of Prison Architecture for Social Reinsertion, published by the University of Bio-BioHe left his country in 2014 to start studies of PhD in the UK, conducting a cross-continentalstudy in prison architecture, which is the base for his book, recently published by Routledge,called Health and Well-Being in Prison Design A Theory of Prison Systems and aFramework for Evolution. Alberto investigates how the health and well-being of prison usersare addressed by designers, prison services authorities, and international prison advisers ineight countries across Europe, North America and South America.
Book Chapter being published in a volume named “What works in prison architecture”,edited by Dominique Moran and Yvonne Jewkes. Currently in process of final revisions by editors.Chapter title:Prison architecture in Chile: A Critical Realist analysis of prisonarchitectural outputs through the lens of organised hypocrisy theory.

111. Diane Wills: Working with those who have comitted sexual offences.

Diane is a former probation officer, a social worker and a psychotherapist.  She now works independently in a variety of roles offering therapy, consultation, professional supervision, quality assurance and training for individuals and organisations.  She is a Trustee for Circles South West.  Diane also offers support to other practitioners working in the area of risk assessment and management.
A Practical Guide to Working with Sex Offenders
by Diane Wills and Andrew Wills
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Diane-Wills/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ADiane+Wills
 

110 Simon Millington:Can sport prevent or reduce offending?

Can sport prevent young people from offending? Do elite footballing academies exploit children? Simon is the founder of Delamill Tutoring which offers Mental Health 1st Aid training and training in Mental Health Awareness & Sports Leadership. He is a UEFA A licence football coach who has worked for Portsmouth FC, Fulham FC and more recently for The FA as a Coach Developer and has worked as a Youth worker for Portsmouth City Council.
 
Simon Millington is a football coach educator and coach developer for The FA who is passionate about utilising sport as a vehicle for social change.
Simon was born in Birmingham but moved to Portsmouth after his parents separated and his father then took his own life.
Simon has used these challenges in his formative years to drive himself to be the best that he can be. However, it wasn’t all was like this and Simon was in trouble with the police for petty crime during his late adolescents.
It was these experiences that drove Simon to change his lifestyle and peer group and get into football as a part-time coach.
Simon worked within social inclusion projects within Portsmouth where he grew up because he wanted to try and support young people to not stray into criminality and to take more positive steps to gain employment.
Simon gained all the necessary football coaching qualifications and moved to the borough of Lambeth in London where he followed his passion for supporting young people and coaches from disadvantaged backgrounds. He also completed an Open University Foundation degree in Sports coaching to formalise his knowledge and to deepen his understanding of sports coaching and the different elements.
He then went back to Portsmouth to work for the local authority overseeing their sports provision in the local youth clubs and housing estates across the city. This youth work role provided Simon with invaluable knowledge and skills for supporting adolescents through their teens, and helped him to further understand the challenges teenagers face.
Simon then returned to London to take a role with The FA that was created to target teenage boys and girls who had dropped out of football. It was at this time that Simon first started delivering coaching courses to grassroots football clubs. This developed into Simon’s dream role because he could influence greater numbers of people to embed a player centred approach to coaching and player development. Simon also completed a PGCE with Worcester Uni in sports coaching and he developed an even deeper understanding of learning and development. This confirmed to Simon that he his experience of coach education wasn’t best practice, and it helped him further refine how he started to develop the coaches he worked with.
1n 2019 Simon close friend died from suicide and this really affected Simon and inspired him to utilise hid tutoring skills to teach Mental Health 1st aid courses. Simon completed his training with MHFA England and started tutoring youth mental health first aid courses straight away.
Simon was made redundant by The FA during the pandemic and had to find another course of income because no one was hiring in his niche field in Kent at this time. He started to deliver more mental health courses online during the pandemic and he also started to assess professional football scholars for their Sport in Excellence course.
Simon and his family returned to Broadstairs in Kent from Spain in February 2022 and he and a colleague have designed an NCFE Cache Level 1 in mental health awareness and sports leadership. This course is for anyone aged 14+ years of age, and it combines everything that Simon is passionate about, mental health, sports and supporting young people to improve their mental health and wellbeing and their lifeskills.  If you're interested in connecting, you can find Simon here:
https://www.delamillwellbeingcoachingandtrainingsolutions.com

109. John Nassoori: Psychology in the world of sport

What can psychologist's learn from journalists about communication? Can a journalist represent the work of psychologists better than psychologists do themselves? 
John Nassoori is a freelance journalist who writes about performance psychology's role in sport for publications including the BBC and The Guardian. He tells stories on subjects ranging from the first World Cup-winning psychologist to weightlifting beauty queens and produces The Mind Room, a weekly newsletter covering psychology-focused stories from around the world of football.

108. Zac Fine: Family Court & Child Custody - Creating collaborative rather than conflictual relationships

What's it like to use the Family Court to resolve custody battles?  Where can you find help if your partner puts up barriers to contact with your children.
 
Zac Fine shares his own experience of fighting for contact in court and advice that ceasefire and collaboration is best for the children and the adults involved. 
 
Zac Fine is a psychotherapist with a special interest in masculinity. He practices online https://zacfine.co.uk and runs a programme for separated fathers in crisis called Ceasefire Method https://zacfine.co.uk/blog/f/your-ex-weaponises-the-kids-is-court-the-right-move. He has a blog https://zacfine.co.uk/blog and a YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vhSyHNSP14F5jvt0gZgMg. Zac mentors young men involved in the criminal justice system with the charity A Band Of Brothers https://abandofbrothers.org.uk/ .
 
Article about my therapeutic approach https://www.centreformalepsychology.com/male-psychology-magazine-listings/a-therapist-who-has-survived-the-family-court-process-shows-other-men-how-they-can-get-through-it-too?
The deeper reasons for the crisis in fatherhood https://zacfine.co.uk/blog/f/the-western-war-on-the-father-archetype
How to survive family court: Lessons from my own experience https://zacfine.co.uk/blog/f/your-anger-disgust-and-rage-is-as-natural-as-the-ocean-and-rocks
Points from the Pod
I  really wouldn't advise anyone to go to family court
If you have to there's ways of doing it that can be affordable and much less likely to create unnecessary conflicts.
There is no point in throwing mud if you are the father and having some kind of match about who's the worst person. 
Ideally represent yourself, get a Mackenzie friend if you need more support. A Mackenzie friend is someone who isn't professionally qualified as a lawyer, but they , know their way around a system
Check out Families need Fathers
Keep saying the same thing. I want to have a, a predictable and regular contact with my child because that's in their interests
There's loads of research to show that child outcomes suffer as a result of fatherlessness or motherlessness
Get yourself to a, a men's group
Join a band of brothers, which is  all over England. They, do online men's circles free of charge.
If you can afford it, get some one to one therapy or coaching
 
 

107. Dr Naomi Fisher: Is school the best way to educate your child?

Is our education system based in theory of how best to learn? Does our education system cause children to be labelled? What happens if your child doesn't fit well with the schooling system? Is school really the best way to learn? What does home education look like and is it a poor substitute for school? Are children who are home educated destined to be society's drop outs? What are the consequences of school-based trauma for adult learning? Might referring to offending behaviour interventions in prison as "courses" run by "tutors" backfire when people had troubled relationships with school?
Dr Naomi Fisher is both an expert in the conventional sense and an expert by experience as she talks about her own time at school and her later challenges in understanding the pros and cons of home educating children.
Naomi is an independent clinical psychologist and EMDR consultant. She specialises in trauma, autism and alternative approaches to education. She works with children, adolescents and adults.
She is the author of ‘Changing our Minds: How Children Can Take Control of their Own Learning’ (Robinson, 2021 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Changing-Our-Minds-children-learning/dp/1472145518/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670952068&sr=8-1)
and ‘A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education’ to be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers in 2023.
She runs online courses to support parents whose children struggle to attend school and offers training for professionals.
https://www.naomifisher.co.uk/

106. Kennath Widanaralalage. What’s the effect of sexual violence on male survivors

Dr Kennath Widanaralalage is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Westminster. He is a qualitative researcher interested in understanding: How do male victim-survivors make sense of their sexual victimisation? What coping strategies do male survivors of sexual violence use? How do male survivors of sexual abuse access support? What prevents male victims reporting their experiences to the police and involving the Criminal Justice System?  What are some of the rape myths that are perpetuated about victimisation of males? Why is qualitative methodology particularly suited to exploring the experience of sexual abuse of males? What are some of the ethical issues in researching the impact of sexual abuse?
During his PhD, Ken explored men’s experiences of rape and sexual abuse in adolescence and adulthood. Working with men made him increasingly interested and committed to understanding and supporting marginalised, seldom-heard groups, using qualitative methods to provide a platform where individuals can tell their stories and break their silence. He believesin the value of personal experiences and the transfer of knowledge to help others and wants to create a better society for survivors and their close networks.

105. Kierra Myles:Should someone who was convicted of violence as a child be allowed to work with children?

How do we treat young people and children who break the law? Does the criminal justice system show compassion for children who end up in trouble with the police? Can sport improve our ability to manage our emotions? Can sport provide a pathway of hope for troubled children?
Kierra Myles is a Mentor Co-ordinator working with children in care and care leavers. She was first arrested when she was just 11 years old and remanded into a secure home when she was 13, before receiving her first custodial sentence at just 15 years old. Kierra has fought hard to break down the external barriers that prevented her from securing a role working with young people and is now helping others to do the same. Kierra is also a keen martial artist and competes at an elite level as an award winning athlete in Brazilian Jiujitsu.

104. Karen Stallard: How can art therapy and game playing help people heal?

Karen Stallard is a registered Psychotherapist with UKCP, registered Counsellor with BACP and registered Art Therapist with HCPC. She trained at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education where she gained a Masters in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy. Her private practice is called Feeling Found, which is based in Highbury and Islington, London. Karen's career journey began as an actor with a passion for the performing arts, storytelling and communicating creatively. She then trained to be a member of the clergy of the Christian church, where she worked mainly in pastoral care particularly within mental health. Karen has also worked an honorary therapist at the Women’s Service in Oxley’s NHS Trust for over four years and as a spiritual and cultural care coordinator at the East London and City Mental Health Trust for seven years. Karen founded ‘The Geoff Ashcroft Community’ in Tower Hamlets to support people suffering from mental health issues in the community, and has been a Board Member of various charities including Crossroads Counselling Service, Margins Homelessness project and Union Chapel Project. Karen is also co-chair for a bi-annual conference called ‘Continuing the Journey’, which provides training to therapists and spiritual leaders. She is the Director for Child Counselling Skills Certificate course at The Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education and the designer of 20 Dreams a card game which promotes creativity and emotional intelligence.
 
 
20 Dreams is a crazily creative card game that challenges your imagination, tests your dream telling skills and stretches your emotional intelligence to bring you endless entertainment and hilarious outcomes! Visit https://www.play20dreams.com to find out more.

103. Heidi Rose Tranter: Why do people join the military? What happens when military personnel retire?

Why do people join the armed forces? How do they meet these needs when they're no longer serving in the military? Why are there so many former veterans in prison?
Heidi Rose Tranter talks about her reseach exploring men's motivations for joining the armed forces.  Heidi is a PhD student at the University of Central Lancashire. Alongside this, she works as a Research Associate at GMMH NHS Foundation Trust and delivers on the Inner Strength Programme (which supports individuals experiencing domestic conflict).  Previously, she’s worked within CAMHS, primary care and forensic services, providing therapeutic support to both children and young people as well as adults. She’s also been involved in research exploring the effects of experiencing adversity during childhood on emotional resilience. 

102. Kerry Hopkins . Activist, animal rights campaigner, journalist and entrepreneur

Kerry Hopkins is an acomplished journalist and a determined spirit who cares greatly about the important things in life. She has fought against ageism, sexism and particularly strongly for animal rights.In this conversation she talks about the important influences in her life and how she carved out her unique career pathway. Trigger alert, some mentions of cruelty to animals can be upsetting.
Kerry Hopkins is the founding CEO of the Broadcast Academy Ltd. She is a Board public relations strategic advisor specialising in broadcast, and has advised 22 FTSE 100/NYSE/NASDAQ listed companies, football clubs, A-list celebrities including David Beckham, actors, athletes, Members of Parliament (MPs),
 
https://broadcastersacademy.com/about/

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.