Hannah Lena Merdian (along with Mark Gresswell and Kirsten McKenzie) and won £37k from Health Education England (HEE) for their Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) bid.
The project aims to support BAME and disadvantaged students / recent graduates gain experience and build the CVs to get into Clinical Psychology training.
Congratulations to Todd Hogue, Tochs Onwuegbusi, and Lauren Smith who (in Feb 2021) were successful in securing £20k funding from the National Probation Service via Lincolnshire Police for research into the Lincolnshire Assisting Rehabilitation through Collaboration (ARC) Service.
This includes evaluating the local delivery of ARC and developing and implementing the revised national Integrated Offender Management (IOM) Scheme.
Lauren Smith, supported by fellow FCRG member Amanda Roberts and Steve Sharman (Kings College), has been awarded £15,000 to by the Howard League Gambling Commission to investigate lived experiences of problem gambling and crime.
Congratulations to Dr Phil Willmot who has been awarded an ‘Early Career Researcher Grant’ by the Association of Commonwealth Universities to present at the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services conference in Montreal (25-27th June, 2019).
Amanda Roberts has received funding form the Society from the Study of Addictions (SSA) to host the first Current Advances in Gambling Research (GAGR) on 12th July 2019 alongside colleagues from UEL. The conference will be held at University Square Stratford, University of East London and is free to attend. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Current Advances in Gambling Research (2019): Gambling Research in the UK
Fri, 12 July 2019, 09:30 – 16:00 BST
University of East London, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ
The conference aims to bring together inter-disciplinary academic experts in a range of gambling fields, including (but not limited to) behaviour, addiction, clinical treatment services, economics, and neuroscience to discuss the latest data driven developments in research on gambling in a supportive and critically reflective environment. We aim to showcase some of the excellent gambling research being done in the UK, and provide a networking opportunity for researchers. Although primarily a research driven academic conference, attendance is open to everyone.
Up to 8 further presentation slots (15 minutes each) are also available. If you are interested in presenting your research at this conference, please submit an abstract via the following link (max 1750 characters):
https://uelpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d1mt0jEPiJ55153
The deadline for abstract submission is MONDAY 13th MAY. Successful submissions will be notified by Friday 17th May.
The deadline for conference registration is MONDAY 24th JUNE.
For more details please see: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/current-advances-in-gambling-research-2019-gambling-research-in-the-uk-tickets-59814857850?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
We are very pleased to announce that PhD student and FCRG member – Charlotte Wesson – has been awarded the Student Grant Award from the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers.
Charlotte has received a small research grant to aid her research that involves developing a new indirect measure to assess sexual interest – both typical and atypical – in offender and non-offender populations. Charlotte is aiming for this new measure to be used as a clinical tool (e.g., for use in forensic settings) as well as a research tool to help gain deeper insights into human sexuality.
Well done Charlotte! We wish you all the best with the research!
Congratulations to PhD student Craig Harper and Dr. Ross Bartels who have each successfully received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant (Nunes & Hermann, 2015) and the Department of Psychology at Carleton University in Canada.
The funding will aid Craig and Ross in attending a pre-conference seminar entitled “Connecting Theory With Research: How to Test Theoretical Assertions About the Causes of Sexual Offending” at the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) Conference in Montreal on Wed 14th October, 2015.
This pre-conference seminar – run by Dr. Kevin Nunes and Chantal Hermann – will see major theorists in the field (inc. Profs. Anthony Beech, Michael Seto, & Patrick Lussier) discuss their theoretical work and how to go about conducting empirical research to effectively test the assumptions of these theories.
Ross and Craig will also be presenting at the ATSA conference themselves (more on this in a future FCRG post).
We’d like to give Aislinn Herlihy – an MSc student on the Forensic Psychology course at the University of Lincoln – a big congratulations for being awarded the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) Pre-Doctoral Research Grant.
Along with her supervisors Dr. Hannah Merdian, Dr. David Dawson, and Dr. Alex Schmidt, Aislinn is conducting a study that examines the validity and reliability of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP; Barnes-Holmes et al., 2006) and the Explicit and Implicit Sexual Interests Profile (EISIP; Banse et al., 2010). The successful grant will be used to facilitate the collection of data for this study.
Again, well done Aislinn! We wish you all the best with your research and look forward to hearing about the results!