This research project addressed two overarching questions: The PhD studentship extended the reach of the project to a new and different group – members of local communities which surround prisons – to gain insight into the largely unexplored subject of the specific impact of prison architecture and aesthetics on those who live within the immediate vicinity of prisons. In addition, the project secured funding for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Dr Jennifer Turner) and for a PhD studentship (Ellie Slee). Professor Yvonne Jewkes was the principal investigator for the project entitled 'Fear-suffused environments’ or potential to rehabilitate? Prison architecture, design and technology and the lived experience of carceral spaces', collaborating with Dr Dominique Moran from the University of Birmingham. Why is society's cultural attachment to the prison seemingly unshakeable? Are new, modern prisons more effective and more efficient than old Victorian gaols? And what are the most pressing challenges facing the Ministry of Justice as it contemplates commissioning nine new prisons (five of which are to be constructed by 2020)?įunded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this research project sought to determine the impact that the architecture, design and spatial organisation of prisons has on the experience of imprisonment, on the behaviour of those who occupy and move through carceral spaces and on prison staff. With new, giant prisons being built to house up to 2,500 inmates and the prison population at nearly 86,000, arguably there has never been a more important time to study prisons and punishment.

Social factors, care and Community Treatment Orders (CTOs).

The problem of personal debt and mental health.

The Brighton systems knowledge exchange project.

Service user and practitioner experiences of community treatment orders (CTOs).

Protest networks and the Pitchford inquiry.

Prison architecture design and technology.

Older people's experiences of online and offline communities.

Older people with sight loss in care homes.

Older people wellbeing and participation.

Fairness in Brighton and Hove: an analysis of public voice.

Electronic Patient Records (EPR) evaluation.

Domestic elder abuse in Japan and England.

Disruption: unlocking low carbon travel.

CCTV: Lessons from a surveillance culture.

Carer Information and Support Programme (CrISP).

Brighton Citizens' Health Services Survey.Anti-social behaviour enforcement action and young people.Aesthetics of protest: Visual culture and communication in Turkey.Monitoring, evaluation and impact: Making data work for communities.Researching discrimination through poetry: Developing a method of collaborative poetics.Rehabilitation by design: Influencing change in prisoner behaviour.Older people: care and self-funding experiences.Making a meal of collaborative learning.

Prison architect prisons