Findings by Office for National Statistics (ONS) show an average of 85 suicides in UK prisons a year, with 30% of all deaths being suicides. A study by Professor Philippa Tomczak on suicide in UK prisons was reviewed by PhD candidate Bradley Read, himself a former prison manager. Read it here: crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/p…

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I wrote this book a very long time ago but prison suicides and prisoner deaths remain important and terribly underresearched topics

'Crisis' warning as number of accidental deaths in UK reaches all-time high news.sky.com/story/crisis-w…

Prof Philippa Tomczak was invited to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, to present findings from her £1.1m UKRI-funded Future Leaders Fellowship study on improving prisoner death data. Professor Philippa Tomczak UoN Social Sciences Read more on the SafeSoc project 🔽 ow.ly/e4Tc50U75Yu

I had little interaction with the bioethics folk at Manchester, but my career was shaped by a session where Margot recommended we think about what we would want to do next in a totally blue sky way. I should probably have fed this back to her, but only just reflected on it ❤️

Published at Nature today.

Launched today! So good to see my novel The Wonders of Doctor Bent out there!!! Uni of Nottingham Press Office The Institute of Mental Health Professor Ahmed Hankir Cranthorpe Millner Publishers #MentalHealth #Psychology #Psychiatry #suspense #thriller #movie #readercommunity #reader waterstones.com/book/the-wonde….

The absolutely MASSIVE elephant in the room that HMG have conveniently ducked, is that cutting welfare will mean an increase in unpaid family caring. And that this will hugely, and unequally, affect women, who will be driven out of work and into both caring and poverty.

More than 80% of adult male prisoners in Scotland have a history of significant head injury, a study has found. Prof Tom McMillan and team have found the same high rate of significant head injuries for women and young men in prison in previous studies. heraldscotland.com/news/25019059.…

Sometimes people say that the answer to the stigma around “BPD” is more training. This article shows the more training and experience psychiatry trainees had, the worse their attitudes got onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

The issue truly is a lack of mental health beds - no matter how NHSE try to dress it up. Without investing in more inpatient capacity, these “Mental Health A&Es” will become holding facilities for people who really need an admission. A kind of corridor care home treatment team.

seeking a postdoc to join my European Research Council Starting Grant team! Closing 16/7, can apply at Research Associate, Fellow or Senior Fellow grade. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Please share!

seeking a postdoc to join my European Research Council Starting Grant team! Closing 16/7, can apply at Research Associate, Fellow or Senior Fellow grade. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Please share!

An important paper that shouldn’t be missed. Objecting to the use of ‘excited delirium’ as a cover for restraint-induced deaths. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35546291/

I will be at the European Society of Criminology conference in Athens from Tuesday. Come to our roundtable on Thursday (930-1045)! Or take advantage of one of my septennial (approx.) sociable periods and let's get coffee: detention regulation/oversight, detainee deaths etc

It is PhD funding and postdoc application time! My interests are... eclectic, but if you are seeking to research criminal justice detention - particularly deaths, regulation/oversight/monitoring/accountability, voluntary sector involvement - give me a shout!