Prison Culture & Creative Writing

Dr Jo Metcalf J.Metcalf@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in American Studies & Criminology

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, 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.

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.

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.

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