Dr. Lucy Willmott
- Teaching Associate
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About
I joined the Institute in 2009 to teach and supervise on the MSt in Applied Criminology, Penology and Management programme. In this post I have had the privilege of supervising over 100 national and international part-time students and criminal justice professionals conducting a broad range of legal, prisons and probation focused empirical research. I previously completed my undergraduate and post graduate studies in the Departments of Psychology and Sociology at the University of Wales, Bangor, and worked as a trainee psychologist for the Prison Service and as a Post Doctoral Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford.
Research
I have a broad range of research interests across the fields of criminology, forensic psychology, law, prison and probation policy and governance, and pedagogy. I am currently engaged in two research projects: Understanding Probation Regions: Accountability, Devolution and Power in Transition (the ADaPT project) with Dr Jane Dominey; and A Sequential, Delphi and Case Study Design to Explore Mechanisms of Change on the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway (OPDP) (the ExChange project) with Dr Jake Shaw and colleagues from Oxleas NHS Trust.
Recent applied research projects include: the prisons and probation policy project with Prof RD King, investigating 30 years of prisons and probation policy through interviews with former politicians, directors and inspectors of service, and Lord Chief Justice; the Relational Skills Training (ReSeT) restorative practice project with Chalotte Calkin and the C2C team, developing and evaluating a new service user led intervention; and a literature review on Sentencing and Mental Health with the Sentencing Academy for the Scottish Sentencing Council.
My long-standing research interest is in the field of care, management and treatment of offenders with mental health difficulties with a focus on personality disorders. Projects include interviewing police custody officers on early identification, interviewing senior clinicians on the development of a step-down unit from high security care, an ethnographic study of a personality disorder unit in a security hospital, being a qualitative lead on the national evaluation of the Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) experiment and the current OPDP study.