Dr Christopher Westoby C.D.Westoby@hull.ac.uk
Programme Director, MA Creative Writing (Online)
HEIF: Prison Officers and Creativity; Supporting the Self and the Inmate
People Involved
Dr Jo Metcalf J.Metcalf@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in American Studies & Criminology
Dr Helen Nichols Helen.Nichols@hull.ac.uk
Reader in Criminology
‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing (2025)
Journal Article
Nichols, H., Metcalf, J., Earle, F., & Fréour, L. (2025). ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing. Incarceration, 6, https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663241310334Prison staff experience multiple stressors in the course of their working lives and existing literature consistently emphasises the negative wellbeing implications of prison work. There is a gap in existing research regarding the types of wellbeing s... Read More about ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing.