Good Practice
Prisoners' Education Trust (PET) believes in working with others to achieve change and innovation, this section celebrates best practice by champions of learning, training and skills.
Here, we highlight some of the best examples of initiatives led by prisons, ex-prisoners or other charities to support people in prison with their learning or rehabilitation. Browse articles written by PET staff and partners below.
-
📄
PUPiL Blog: Going Straight to University in Birmingham
All | University/prison partnershipsSharonjit Kaur is a student at Newman University and an alumni of the 'Straight to University' partnership with HMP Birmingham. Here she reflects on her changing understanding of what is 'education' and discusses a recent event with Dr. Baz Dreisinger.
-
📄
PUPiL Blog: Mobilising PhD Researchers in prisons with the Brilliant Club
University/prison partnershipsThe Brilliant Club have a long history of using university partnerships to develop educational opportunities for marginalised groups. Now, their associated NGO AccessEd is seeking to develop this into a model that brings universities into prisons.
-
📄
PUPiL Blog: Learning Forever by PhD student and lawyer Menaal Munshey
All | University/prison partnershipsMenaal Munshey, a PhD student in criminology at the University of Cambridge, reflects on her experiences taking part in the Learning Together partnership between Cambridge and HMP Grendon, as both a student and later as a facilitator.
-
📄
PUPiL Blog: Making Links with British Convict Criminology
All | University/prison partnershipsNatalie Ellis, a student from Westminster University, writes about her experience on the Making Links project, a partnership between British Convict Criminology at the University of Westminster and HMP Pentonville.
-
📄
PUPiL Blog: Learning together beyond the prison gates - opportunities, threats and sustainability
University/prison partnershipsIn this week's blog Dr Helena Gosling reflects on the community-based partnership she co-leads at Liverpool John Moores University in partnership with the charity User Voice. Alongside thoughts on the deep benefits of this work, Helena highlights the challenges and threats to sustainability posed by insecure funding.
-
📄
PUPiL Blog: Through the looking glass. Re-imagining self through educational experiences in prison
University/prison partnershipsThis blog post comes from former learning Together student and researcher, Stacey Groundwell. Here she writes about her dissertation research and personal experience studying in HMP Full Sutton with other Leeds Beckett students as part of her criminolgy degree.
-
📄
Learning Together conference: building communities through collaborative learning
All | University/prison partnershipsLearning Together, started in 2014 as a project between Cambridge University and HMP Grendon, has grown into a network that includes 20 partnerships across England. Last month was their annual conference; PET's Morwenna Bennalick attended.
-
📄
PUPiL Blog: Reflections from Inside Out training
All | University/prison partnershipsEarlier this month Drs Linnea Osterman and Giulia Zampini from the University of Greenwich travelled to America for the Inside Out facilitator training. Here they reflect on their experiences.
-
📄
Outside Kent University… and Inside HMP Swaleside
All | University/prison partnershipsLast month, students from the University of Kent came together with their fellow students at HMP Swaleside to celebrate the completion of a distinctive university module.
-
📄
Penned Up: The festival for and by prisoners
All | ArtsAs the festival season approaches, prisons are not immune. Penned Up, at HMP Erlestoke, is the largest arts festival in the sector, and the only one in which prisoners play a central role in the organisation. David Kendall explains how it worked.