FCRG deputy – Dr Lauren Smith – chaired a panel at The British Academy Early Career Researcher âWorking with Industryâ event held at UoL.  The panel was titled Working with Public Sector Organisations and Niko Kargas was on the panel, alongside colleagues from Law, Health and Social Care, and Social and Political Sciences.Â
FCRG deputy, Dr Lauren Smith, delivered a webinar on Gambling and Crime: Implications for Probation Practice to probation staff across Wales. Lauren was invited to deliver the webinar following a recent publication:  Smith, L. (2022).  The role of probation in supporting people who have experienced gambling and crime-related harms.  Probation Quarterly, 26, 60-65.  https://doi.org/10.54006/QPRS9599.
The webinar was attended by 120 probation staff!
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FCRG member, Dr Tochukwu Onwuegbusi, presented at the Science and Psychology Conference 2022 in London (29th Nov) and Bristol (30th Nov). His talk was titled: “Crime – How do we solve it?” where he described the application of a novel eye-tracking method that can be used to aid police crime investigation, particularly in suspect identification. Tochs presented data suggesting that fixation patterns may be repeated during the recognition of familiar scenes. Thus, tracking eye fixations could give insight as to whether the suspect under police interrogation is lying about having memory of the crime scene.
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In October 2022, FCRG lead (Dr Ross Bartels) attended and presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse (ATAS) in Los Angles, USA.
Ross gave a talk entitled “The Effect of Bilateral Eye-Movements on Sexual Fantasies” as part of a larger symposium titled “Can EMDR Be Helpful in the Treatment of Sexual SelfRegulation?” (chaired by Wineke Smid).
The talk (and session overall) was very well received, generating interesting discussion and interest in Ross’ work (which he is currently following up).
On the 6th October 2022, MSc student Olivia Cressey (supervised by FCRG member Dr Phil Willmot) gave a presentation on her thesis at the High Secure Hospitals Psychology Conference. The talk was on “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Schema Therapy for Behavioural Change in Forensic Patients with Personality Disorders”Â
At the recent Howard League for Penal Reform Conference entitled âCrime, Justice and the Human Condition: Beyond the Cris(es) – Reframing and reimagining Justiceâ, Dr Lauren Smith presented her research on ‘The Lived Experiences of Crime and Gambling. Â
Last week, Dr Lauren Smith presented a paper on The Lived Experiences of Gambling and Crime at The British Society of Criminology conference at The University of Surrey. Attendance at the conference was funded by The Howard League for Penal Reform.
Also, Lauren was recently invited to do a short, pre-recorded talk for the recent Regional Inequality Commission workshop, hosted by Liz Shutt, University of Lincoln’s Director of Policy, which brought together local stakeholders to discuss the Universityâs role in reducing inequality. The talk was a summary of the collaborative projects arising from the Lincolnshire Reducing Offending Core Priority group.
Recently, several FCRG members, along with past and present students, attended and presented at the 2022 Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP) annual conference in Solihull (14-16th June 2022). A host of oral and poster presentations, across a wide range of topics, were presented over the course of the event. Here’s a run down of them below:
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
| Isobel Corfield (current MSc student) | ‘Dacryphilia and its Affiliations’ |
| Elizabeth Deehan (PhD student) | ‘Using online viewing time measures to understand somnophilic sexual interests’ |
| Matthew King-Parker (PhD student) | âThe Validation of the Burglary Scripts Assessment’ |
| Georgia Harries (graduate) and Tochs Onwuegbusi | ‘To replicate or conceal? Creating fairer line-ups for multiple suspects with dissimilar distinctive features’ |
| Megan Hartley (current MSc student) |  ‘Public perception of men who have committed infrafamilial and   extrafamilial sexual offences against children’ (published paper) |
| Roshini Sahsan-Stock (graduate) and Tochs Onwuegbusi | ‘Impact of risk assessment, media and offender’s characteristics on lay people’s fairness in judgement of terrorist offenders’ |
| Phil Willmot | ‘Risk assessment with racially minoritised clients’ |
| Rachael Dagnall (with Nic Bowes & Sophie Ellis) | âDecolonising Forensic Psychology: An interactive workshopâ |
| Phil Willmot | âWhy we need to stop talking about trauma: Thinking systemically about threat, safety and connectionâ |
| Michelle Smith | âSystematic review of professional boundaries on risk in forensic secure settings: process learning and preliminary resultsâ |
| Matt King-Parker (PhD student) | âRe-enacting burglary scripts in virtual realityâ |
| Leah Stainsby (graduate) & Tochs Onwuegbusi | âImpact or risk assessment and offender characteristics on lay people’s fairness in judgement and sentencing of violent offendersâ |
| Abbie Chambers (graduate) and Michelle Smith | âThe relationship between dual role conflict & stress in staff working with forensic clients: An exploratory studyâ |
| Bethan Harcourt (graduate) and Michelle Smith | Public perceptions of adolescents engaged in violent extremism |
| Karolina Wojcik (current MSc student) | âThe Function of sexual fantasies and their relationship with developmental factorsâ (part of a symposium convened by Ross Bartels) |
| Courteney Ferguson (current MSc student) | âExhibitionism proclivity, sexual fantasy functions, and primary human goodsâ (part of a symposium convened by Ross Bartels) |
| Elizabeth Deehan (PhD student) | âSomnophilia: Attraction to a Sleep State or Specific Behaviours?â (part of a symposium convened by Ross Bartels) |
On the 19th and 20th May 2022, Prof Amanda Roberts hosted the ‘Current Advances in Gambling Research‘ (CAGR) Conference in Cardiff, along with Colleagues from Kings College London and the University of Swansea.
The conference was a great success, with speakers and attendees from all around the world.
Also, FCRG members Lauren Smith and Tochs Onwuegbusi gave presentations. Furthermore, 3rd year undergraduate student Ben Hookway was invaluable in assisting Amanda and her team both before and throughout the conference.
The next CAGR conference will be held at the Royal Society in London (at the end of June 2023), so watch this space! If you would like to find out more about it, please get on touch with Amanda at aroberts@lincoln.ac.uk.
On the 17th May, Dr Lauren Smith presented her work on the lived experiences of crime and gambling at the ‘HMPPS Insights 22 Festival’ session entitled Exploring Peopleâs lived Experiences of Crime and Gambling Harms.