On May 19th 2022, The work of Hannah Merdian’s research group (onlinePROTECT) was showcased via a video at the Stop it Now! Flanders (Belgium) anniversary symposium entitled “Beyond stigma: 5 years Stop it Now”.
In early May 2022, Ross Bartels chaired a symposium entitled “Widening the Scope of Paraphilic Research: Examining Exhibitionistic, Dacryphilic, and Somnophilic Interests” at the 2022 NOTA conference in Leeds.
On the 29th April 2022, FCRG members Todd Hogue and Lauren Smith, along with colleagues from the School of Social and Political Sciences (Tony Ellis, Sue Bond-Taylor and Carina O’Reilly), hosted a workshop to support to development of a new initiative to tackle knife-enabled crime in Lincolnshire, Think Sharp – which is being led by Lincolnshire Police.
The event was held at The Cathedral Centre and was the first of 2 workshops, attended by stakeholders with lived experience, and representatives from health, criminal justice and the local authorities, funded by the University of Lincoln’s allocation of the QR Policy Support Fund.
On the 4/5th April 2022, Todd Hogue and Tochukwu Onwuegbusi gave an invited presentation at 2022 New Directions in Sex Offenders Conference at the University of Birmingham.
Their talk covered the application of their newly developed data-driven eye tracking method to assess sexual interests.
On 21st Jan (2022), Ross Bartels gave a presentation about his new chapter at the online launch of the new book in which it is published (‘Challenges in the Management of People Convicted of a Sexual Offence: A Way Forward’, Uzieblo et al., 2022).
Ross’ chapter is entitled “Understanding Sexual Fantasising: Implications for Forensic Practice and Research”
Elizabeth Deehan (PhD student) presented the findings of one of her PhD studies on somnophilia at the BPS’ Division of Forensic Psychology annual conference on Tuesday 9th Nov 2021.
Amanda Ro
berts has been awarded £30,000 from GREO (Gambling Research Exchange Ontario) and the SSA (Society of the Study of Addictions) to organise and host a series of Current Advances in Gambling Research (CAGR) conferences.
The CAGR conferences aim to showcase some of the first-class gambling research being done in the UK, by drawing together academic experts from different areas to discuss the latest data driven advances.
The next conference will be on 19th and 20th May 2022 in Cardiff.
On 11th October (2021), Lauren Smith, along with Karen Harrison from the Law School, gave an invited talk to the Prison Governors Association about the well-being of prison governors and operational managers.
The findings of the research undertaken will be finalised and shared with the Ministry of Justice in the coming months.
On 1st Oct (2021), Ross Bartels presented an online talk on his work regarding offence-supportive beliefs for a symposium entitled “Offense-Supportive Cognitions and Sexual Aggression in Community Males” at the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers’ (ATSA) online annual conference.
PhD student Elizabeth Deehan presented an online talk at the IATSO 2021 conference on her work examining somnophilia and dormaphilia (Aug 25th).