This event, the next in our Prison and Probation Research Hub Seminar Series, will discuss the benefits of taking a trauma-informed approach to probation working. Presented by Professor Kieran McCartan and Lynn Gibbons, it will highlight how TiP adheres to existing probation policy, theory, and practice before going on to highlight how it builds upon it to enforce effective harm reduction and risk management pathways. The discussion will draw together research and practice from public health, community justice, and criminology to show how using an epi-criminological approach complements the socio-ecological and life-course perspectives being used in probation currently.
Professor Kieran McCartan is a Professor of Criminology at the University of the West of England in Bristol, an Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield. He has a track record of public, academic, and professional engagement on criminological issues, including the origins and causes of sex offending, and societal responses to sex offenders. Professor McCartan is the international representative on the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers board, the Conference Chair of National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse, Chair of the Confederation of European Probation working group on sexual offenses, Research chair of Circles Europe, Deputy chair of Circles South West, a member of the ethics committee of Braveheart’s, and has advised the Council of Europe, New Zealand Police, Bravehearts, as well as the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia.
Lynn Gibbons is a Consultant in Public Health at South Gloucestershire Council and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, with a strategic focus on mental health, inequalities, and the wider determinants of health and in the promotion of wellbeing through equity. She is a champion of trauma-informed and responsive systems and what that means in practice at the local and national levels. She is chair of the BNSSG (Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire) trauma-informed working group and has been instrumental in the South Gloucestershire Council and the BNSSG Integrated Care System ambitions to become trauma-informed and responsive.
This event is open to all. Bookings will close 1 hour prior to the start of the event and joining details will be shared 24 hours in advance.