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A white matter tract that takes 30 years to mature must be doing something important. 3 things to know about the uncinate fasciculus.

NEW: Today we have published our statistical analysis of deaths across custody. Research carried out by Dr Amir Sariaslan & IAPDC member Prof. @SeenaFazel has found the death rates in prisons & under the Mental Health Act are disproportionately high. iapondeathsincustody.org/news/2024/4/23…

Yesterday, Charlie Taylor wrote to the Secretary of State for Justice Alex Chalk KC to invoke the Urgent Notification process following our unannounced inspection of HMP Wandsworth between 22nd April and 2nd May 2024.

The full judgment in Rex -v- Calocane is now available online: judiciary.uk/judgments/rex-…

Our viewpoint piece on the future of forensic mental health research is now available in Lancet Psychiatry. Open access for 50 days through link here (1/2) authors.elsevier.com/a/1jKni7tf1d8r…

Are you a nurse/nurse associate/assistant in secure mental healthcare? please consider taking part in this research.

Come and join us! New Clinical Lecturer post...great chance to become a clinical academic by pursuing an MD(Res), joining our MSc education team and working with SLaM in an inpatient forensic setting

Reflecting on the Wandsworth inspection, Charlie Taylor said "The appalling conditions at Wandsworth did not appear overnight and are the result of sustained decline permitted to happen in plain view of leaders in the jail." Read the full report here: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/?post_type=hmi…

What should we do with our Victorian prisons? The Howard League briefing has interesting new proposal to minimise problems of antiquated living conditions while maximising potential of their urban locations buff.ly/3LXStPJ

Education staff in PRUs feel ill-equipped to support their pupils and lacked access to effective inter-agency support...great to see another MSc research project out in print...congratulations to Dennis Kaip shorturl.at/v6hlD

Forensic mental health researchers - next Forensic Psychiatry Research Society meeting on 21 November 2024 at Pembroke College, Oxford. Details and registration forms to come.

Today marks a big step in my career as I start a PhD in the Forensic & Neurodevtl Sci dept at IoPPN Forensic Research Group 📕📜 I'll be looking at during-imprisonment predictors of self-harm for people in prison, sup'd by Prof Nigel Blackwood, Prof Seena Fazel & Dr Emma Facer-Irwin

Job alert! Postdoc in computational neuroscience of social decision making (with focus on social rule learning) w/ me, NeuroecologyLab & @FrancescPoli. Read more about it here: tinyurl.com/353v5kjf

Helpful discussion with Richard Latham about the duties and responsibilities of expert witnesses (partic. psychiatric witnesses) Spotify: bit.ly/4f5xp6f

Sentencing Review 'to end prison crisis' gov.uk/government/new…

Congratulations to Adegboyega Ogunwale as he completes his prison mental heath PhD dataset in Ilaro! Looking forward to the analysis stage Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Come and work with us Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience - post-doctoral research associate working on NHS England LeDeR programme to address health #inequalities in ppl with intellectual disability and autistic people - varied and important work. my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecruit…

Short Cuts lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

ADR UK is funding 5 fellows to conduct analysis using the Ministry of Justice-Department for Education linked datasets, including Hannah Dickson from KCL, who will investigate violent reoffending risk assessments. Details of all 5 funded projects here: shorturl.at/TNddq

Environmental risk factors for self-harm during imprisonment: pilot prospective cohort study by Tom Stephenson in HMP Wandsworth: single cell accommodation and frequent cell changes associated with self harming behaviours shorturl.at/NAMQA