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PODCAST

The Locked up Living Podcast: Surviving and thriving in prisons and other challenging environments

Podcasters David Jones & Dr Naomi Murphy

Can institutional culture challenge your mental health? What if your job makes you feel shame, sadness, grief, disgust and fear? What if you are expected not to feel? Or you are expected to be relentlessly competitive? What it’s like to live or work in a prison? Does working with people who commit murder, child abuse and rape affect people who work in prisons and the wider criminal justice system? How do people survive and thrive when facing significant challenges to our emotional health over a

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All Episodes

01:05:43

150. Dr Chris James - How to sleep better

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2023/07/19

Dr. Chris James is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and sleep specialist. Chris has over 15 years of clinical experience in the NHS working across a range of mental health and sleep services, providing specialist assessments, therapy and training. He now runs an online-based Clinical Psychology Practice & Sleep Clinic, and is the CEO and Founder of Sleep Athletic, providing specialist sleep services to elite athletes and sports teams. Sleep Athletic’s clients include Canada Men’s football

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01:03:26

149. Geoff Hopping -Interconnectivity, well-being and...

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2023/07/12

Geoff started his mental health career as a psychiatric nurse, and then subsequently became a mental health social worker. In the late 80’s his social work career took a turn when he found himself working in the HIV/AIDS pandemic in West London. It was during that time that he was fortunate enough to start doing some training with the Elizabeth Kubler Ross foundation in the USA. and it was this seminal experience that started his journey to become a psychotherapist. He trained initially at the

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148. Hardi Poder & Monika Jakobson of Inlibrium - why...

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2023/07/12

Hardi has studied economics at the University of Tartu in Estonia and business communication at the University of Washington. For the last 16 years, he has been an entrepreneur and established 9 companies in very diverse fields like agriculture, sales, IT, retail, Electric Vehicles, and mycology. He has led over 600+ membered sales teams in Scandinavia and US and established the world’s biggest outdoor medicinal mushroom plantation.Since 2016, Hardi has been actively following the fields of

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46:47

146. Leon Ancliffe. Can virtual reality improve our...

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2023/07/05

Today we have two conversations about death. Leon is a creative film maker who has worked with the NHS and others to highlight the importance of talking about death before it is too late. Mike Grenville, the other conversation, explains what it is to be a death doula. Originally from the North of England, Leon started his career as an actor and dancer. Building on his experience in creative media, including freelancing as a cinematographer for the BBC, and directing numerous healthcare related

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147. Mike Grenville. How to have a better death

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2023/07/05

In the second of our conversations about death or really facing up to death before it is too late we talk to Mike Grenville. Mike is an independent Funeral Celebrant and Dying Doula supporting people dying and the families. He is also a member of the Home Funeral Network supporting families to care for their own dead and make informed choices about all aspects of Funerals including Home Funerals. He runs workshops on dying and Dying To Talk sessions creating a safe space to talk about death and

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51:25

145. Tanni Grey-Thompson - how to keep young athletes...

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2023/06/28

Tanni Grey-Thompson is a Welsh politician and TV presenter as well as being a former wheelchair Paralympian. Over her Paralympic career she won 16 medals including 11 golds for wheelchair racing, she held over 30 world records and also won the London Marathon 6 times. She was also BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year on three occasions and received the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Tanni is remarkably clear and open about her sporting achievements and

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01:10:57

144. David Maguire: Masculinity in prison - beyond...

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2023/06/21

Dr David Maguire (Honorary Senior Research Associate, UCL, Institute of Education) Dr David Maguire has researched and managed projects for excluded groups across sectors that include housing, education, prison and the wider criminal justice system. In 2016 he was awarded D.Phil. (PhD) from the University of Oxford for research focusing on the interplay between masculinity, education, (un)employment, crime and imprisonment. After holding Lectureship positions in Criminal Justice, Criminology and

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143. Ellie Wilbore: What’s it like to undergo...

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2023/06/14

The Retreat in York was a groundbreaking psychiatric service opened in 1796. Acorn was a women'stherapeutic community which ran for many years before closing as the Retreat withdrew from in patient activities. Ellie Wildbore was a member of the TC. This research seeks out staff and residents from four years ago to assess the benefits and effects of being in the TC and we reflect on the tragic loss of such valuable and effective services.

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01:07:11

142. Belinda Winder. Sexual Offending, exclusion and...

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2023/06/07

Belinda is a Professor of Forensic Psychology. She is Research Director of the Centre of Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement (COPE), and part of the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit a at Nottingham Trent University. Working with people with lived experience, she seeks to make a difference in the world by designing and undertaking mixed-method research to inform and provide evidence-based practice and policy. Her primary field is sexual offending, but she also has a

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01:06:05

141. Dr Jenny Mackay: Female perpetrators of intimate...

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2023/05/30

Dr Jenny Mackay is Principal Lecturer (forensic psychology) at Nottingham Trent University, with responsibility for outreach and student volunteering, Associate Course Leader for MSc Forensic Mental Health, Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Chartered Psychologist. She teaches on both the undergraduate and postgraduate psychology courses on the following modules: Before joining NTU, Dr Jenny Mackay conducted her PhD titled, 'Comparing the treatment needs of women and men who

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140. Ad Vingerhoets. The Psychology of Crying

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2023/05/24

Ad Vingerhoets is emeritus professor of Emotions and Wellbeing. He was affiliated with the Department of Medical & Clinical Psychology of Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. His areas of expertise are stress and emotions, and quality of life. In particular, his research on leisure sickness, homesickness and nostalgia, but especially crying, attracted much international media attention. In addition to his publications in academic journals and books (>400), he also wrote some

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139. Rina Bajaj. Counselling psychologist working...

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2023/05/17

Dr Rina Bajaj is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist. She holds a first-class BA (Hons) in Psychology and a Doctorate (DPsych) in Counselling Psychology. Rina has over 15 years of experience and practices across London, UK. In 2017, she founded her private consultancy, Rina Bajaj Ltd, which offers a specialist therapeutic service for adults and young people providing counselling, CBT, clinical supervision, EMDR therapy, couples/relationship therapy, business consultation and coaching. She has

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01:09:13

138. Michelle Smith. What’s the impact on staff who...

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2023/05/10

After starting out in Law Michelle moved to become a forensic psychologist. In this conversation she tells us about the things she notices about being in a prison, how important support and supervision is and how some professions are denied this passage to mental health and wellbeing. Michelle Smith is a Chartered & Registered Forensic Psychologist who has worked across a range of forensic settings over the past 30 years including prisons, probation, secure hospital settings (both independent

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14:57

News and Current Affairs. Our contribution to this...

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2023/05/08

In this 15 minute clip we hear from Eden who describes the traumatic consequences of whistleblowing, James Wong who tells us about the importance of engaging young men with a sense of power and creativity to prevent their criminalisation, Dan Lawrence talking about the use of restrictive practices in secure hospitals, and Dean Kingham a solicitor who represents some of societies' most scorned people discussing why prison doesn't work.

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136 Wellbeing. Our submission for this British...

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2023/05/08

This is our 15 minute submission for the Wellbeing section of the British Podcast awards. In our podcasts we are always seeking positive experiences to balance some of the more damaging or corrosive experiences we encounter. Our well-being entry may be a quirky take but its based in real-life applications of psychological principles Including Hugh Venables discussing how to journal and why its so good for our mental health, Shona Herron describing her research into emptiness, Joe Sabien on

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135. Shona Minson. Submission for Interview Category...

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2023/05/08

So many great guests and conversations to choose from. But we needed a conversation that could be distilled down to 15 minutes. We chose Shona for our submission to the British Podcast Awards for the Interview category. This is a short clip where Shona describes the emotional impact of her work with the children of imprisoned parents. It was a powerful interview and we found it difficult to distill it down to 15 minutes. Let us know what you think. Maybe you'd have chosen differently?

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134 Sarah J Naylor. Coronation Day special....

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2023/05/06

Sarah J Naylor, The Midlife Success Coach “Making Midlife Magical!” Sarah helps midlife women in their 40s and 50s, rediscover, or even discover who they are as they reach this magical midpoint in their lives. She helps them put some ‘sass in their ass’ and propel themselves forward with strength and style. In fact, she’s on a mission to get mid-life women enjoying ALL aspects of their life again and that includes loving and valuing themselves, being cared for, enjoying great sex, kick-starting

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01:02:44

133. Vincent McGovern Challenging misandry in the...

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2023/05/03

Todays conversation is with Vincent McGovern, Vincent works part time as a shared parenting campaigner. He is also Chair of Central and North London Branches of Families Need Fathers, a Shared Parenting Charity. He has had 18 inquiries and five Ombudsman (including 3 Parliamentary & Health Services Ombudsman) investigations into malpracticing children's services all ending with findings in his favour including compensation. He addressed x2 the Euro Parliament Petitions Commission and forced the

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01:01:46

132. Iain Smith - Trauma informed law

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2023/04/26

Iain Smith is in his 30th year of being a lawyer. Started out in a civil firm where Robert Louis Stephenson trained. Created his own business in 1998 with Jim Keegan, Kings Counsel who was by then an experienced high court solicitor advocate. Iain concentrated on crime but also did children’s referral hearings and acted as a sports lawyer for international rugby stars. In 2018 he had an epiphany in reaction to being educated on the biological impact of trauma on the childhood brain. He suddenly

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01:22:11

130. Patrick Mills: How systemic is sexual abuse...

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2023/04/19

We’re really excited about today’s guest. He will be a familiar name to many. Pat Mills has been a successful writer and editor of popular culture from the age of 20, developing comics, novels, science fiction, film and game work. Perhaps best-known as the developer of Judge Dredd and writer of Charley’s War, a long running anti-war saga that sells throughout Europe, all of Pat’s stories are about fighting abusive authority. That trait extends to the catholic church and his experiences as a

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