Changing Lives: tackling penal reform with evidence-based social interventions

15 October 09:15
Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG

Dr Martha Newson and Professor Harvey Whitehouse

An event from the Changing Lives Lab, Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion at the University of Oxford where our academic partners will share groundbreaking results and recommendations from a five-year study with the Twinning Project and His Majesty’s Prison Service. 
 
Changing Lives: tackling penal reform with evidence-based social interventions
Tuesday 15th of October, 9.15am -11.30am
Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
 
This event is invite-only and capped at 35 guests. Please RSVP to martha.newson@anthro.ox.ac.uk by September 2nd.
 
Coffee and pastries will be served.
 
The event is hosted by Prof Harvey Whitehouse and Dr Martha Newson who have spearheaded research for the last five years on the Twinning Project in over 50 British prisons, the most extensive sports-based prison intervention in the world. The researchers will share ground-breaking results and recommendations. The main findings, regarding significant improvements to behaviour in prison, are being published at Nature Human Behaviour.