Research interests

We have a decade of experience in offender healthcare research within low-and-middle-income countries. We are in the process of uploading all our internal and external research findings into our research catalogue.

Until the pandemic we had a research partnership with the University of Leeds’ School of Medicine, with its BSc and MSc students doing field research with us on topics of mutual interest. These interests are wide and varied, but include…

Detainees

Conditions

Scabies is common in overcrowded cells

  • Continuity of care

  • Dermatological conditions

  • Interface of faith and psychological functioning

  • Long-term conditions

  • Malnutrition

  • Neurodiversity

  • Oral hygiene

  • Personality disorders

  • Psychiatric conditions

  • Solitary confinement syndrome

  • Tuberculosis

Human rights

  • Bangkok Rules & Nelson Mandela Rules

  • Overcrowding

  • Solitary confinement

  • Torture and ill-treatment

Personnel

  • Independence of those working in secure environments

  • Prevention of harm for those working in secure environments

  • Psychological sequelae of working in secure environments

  • Training for those working in secure environments

Specialist interest groups

Solitary confinement detainee participating in dental survey

  • Autistic detainees

  • Detained children

  • Detained women

  • Detainees in long-term solitary confinement

  • Tattooed detainees

  • Tortured detainees

Ex-detainees

  • Long-term health effects of previous imprisonment

Dependents

  • Children in detention by virtue of accompanying their detained parents

  • Psychological effect of parental imprisonment

  • Safeguarding of dependents of detainees

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;
    to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Proverbs 25:2