Unlock Imagined: Arts in Criminal Justice

Held leadership roles in the voluntary and public sector. As Chief Officer, Brook Advisory Centres, she fought for access to sexual health services for young people. As a Director of Public Health she championed public health programmes to address health inequalities including within prisons. Continuing a commitment to social justice she is now a visiting professor in Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, and public health lead on a randomised trial at UCL evaluating mentalization for antisocial personality disorder. As Chair, National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance, she is inspired by a creative network to promote arts in justice. She believes passionately in multidisciplinary working and as a recent MA graduate in professional writing uses story-telling to identify the human impact of inequalities. She publishes in the scientific and general press most recently on deaths in custody in the BMJ.