Dr Jo Metcalf's Projects (9)

Reading America, Reading Loneliness; Prison Book Groups at HMP Hull & HMP Full Sutton Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024
In 2023, Hull’s award-winning arts festival, the “Freedom Festival” (FF) was guided by the themes of isolation and loneliness. We want to run book groups (with some creative writing) at both HMP Hull and HMP Full Sutton which combine these FF themes... Read More about Reading America, Reading Loneliness; Prison Book Groups at HMP Hull & HMP Full Sutton.

HIKE: Freedom Festival - UoH Book Groups at HMP Hull & HMP Full Sutton Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2024
In aftermath of UoH involvement with the recent Freedom Festival Talks 2023, Metcalf is now seeking to secure an RA to deliver follow-up book clubs at HMP Hull & HMP Full Sutton that revolve around the FF themes of isolation and loneliness.

Shaping Prison Pedagogy through Transatlantic Cultural Exchange Mar 15, 2023 - Dec 31, 2024

HIKE: Visiting Research Fellow at UCSB for global development of Prison Projects Nov 1, 2022 - Aug 31, 2023

HEIF: Prison Officers and Creativity; Supporting the Self and the Inmate Aug 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2023
This project aims to be the first in the UK to pilot creative writing workshops for prison officers, respecting the UoH’s commitment to social justice. It will support employees in a role that government and academic research recognizes is “vital”, b... Read More about HEIF: Prison Officers and Creativity; Supporting the Self and the Inmate.

HEIF: Developing Effective University-Prison Partnership Policies: The Prisoner’s Perspective on the Educational Resources offered on in-cell TV at HMP Hull Jan 1, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022
This project originally commenced in January 2022 with the aim of developing educational content for HMP Hull’s pioneering TV channel, HTV, and putting mechanisms in place to monitor the impact on prisoners of the educational materials provided by th... Read More about HEIF: Developing Effective University-Prison Partnership Policies: The Prisoner’s Perspective on the Educational Resources offered on in-cell TV at HMP Hull.

Prison, Pop-Culture, and Transatlantic Perspectives: How UK (ex) Prisoners Interpret American (Penal) Culture Sep 1, 2018 - Aug 31, 2019
The project involves weekly study and creative writing groups for 24 weeks with 30 ex-prisoners (and those at risk of offending) which will result in a published pamphlet of writings and culminating in two key events – a launch event and a film scree... Read More about Prison, Pop-Culture, and Transatlantic Perspectives: How UK (ex) Prisoners Interpret American (Penal) Culture.

Seed Funding: UK-US Collaborative Workshop On Violence Apr 1, 2018 - Nov 30, 2018
Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games are a huge international industry and form of entertainment in the lives of millions of players in the United States, United Kingdom and the wider international context. Players interact in a virtual spac... Read More about Seed Funding: UK-US Collaborative Workshop On Violence.

Prison Culture & Creative Writing Sep 1, 2018 - Jan 31, 2020