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A focal point for practitioners, policymakers and researchers to collaborate and deliver best practice and evidence in the field.
Heads of centre: Professor Jane Hurry and Dr John Vorhaus
The Centre for Education in the Criminal Justice System (CECJS) has been set up in response to the need for an authoritative and high-profile centre with an exclusive focus on education within the criminal justice system.
We provide a focal point for practitioners, policymakers and researchers to collaborate on collecting, improving and disseminating the best and most promising evidence and practice in the field.
About us
- Our staff
Directors of Centre
- Jane Hurry, Co-Director
- John Vorhaus, Co-Director
Academic Staff
- Lynne Rogers, Reader in Education
External members
- Angela Herbert
- Anita Wilson
- Funders
For their generous support we would like to thank:
- Sir John Cass's Foundation
- City and Guilds Centre for Skills Development
- Higher Education Funding Council
- Mary Kinross Charitable Trust
Our activities
- Research
Our Centre is undertaking an ambitious programme of research and development on education and training in the criminal justice system, including reviews of evidence, secondary data analysis and primary research, together with a programme of research-informed development activity, providing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) materials for practitioners working in prisons and with offenders in the community.
We also act as a national hub for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers, promoting, developing and disseminating best practice in education and training.
We work with a range of national networks including the Prisoner Learning Alliance, Education and Training Foundation Offender learning group, Open University Educating Criminals Centre and host an international conference, highlighting research knowledge and best practice, and identifying areas for future research, development and policy.
- Publications
- Intensive English and maths provision in prisons: pilot evaluation in 6 prisons, with NIACE, for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
- Evaluation of 'Write to be Heard", a project on writing in prison, commissioned by National Offender management Service (NOMS), led by the Arts Alliance
- National survey of prison educators, with University & College Union
- Analysis of youth offenders' occupational identities and its relationship to subsequent offending patterns
- An assessment of the English and maths skills levels of prisoners in England.
- Martin Luther King "Now is the time" - His Dream to Influence Education Today by Angela Herbert
See more info:
- Featured research
- UCL Research Portal, IRIS to find more about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes.