Lauren Smith interviewed on BBC Radio 4 documentary
On the 10th May 2022, Lauren Smith was interviewed for a ‘File on 4’ (BBC Radio 4) documentary about crime and gambling.
The documentary will be released in June.
Hannah Merdian becomes permanent member of academic network
In May 2022, Hannah Merdian was invited to be a permanent member of the network of academics working in child protection, established by Simon Bailey who is Chair of the Policing Institute for the East Region (PIER).
FCRG members present at NOTA 2022 conference
In early May 2022, Ross Bartels chaired a symposium entitled “Widening the Scope of Paraphilic Research: Examining Exhibitionistic, Dacryphilic, and Somnophilic Interests” at the 2022 NOTA conference in Leeds.
- The symposium was comprised of three talks. The first was on ‘dacryphilia’ delivered by UoL MSc student Isobel Corfield; the second was on exhibitionism by MSc student Courteney Ferguson; and the third was on somnophilia by PhD student Liz Deehan. The session was well-attended and generated great interest and discussion.
- MSc student – Karolina Wojcik – also presented a research poster on a new ‘Functions of Sexual Fantasy Scale’. NOTA have since invited Karolina to write a NOTA blog post about this piece of work.
- Also, Hannah Merdian’s research, as part of a collaboration with the intervention provider Stop it Now! Scotland, was presented at the conference. The talk was entitled: “Stop it Now! Scotland and online PROTECT: key trends and patterns in a dataset gathered from 800 clients over the past decade”.
Todd and Lauren give workshop on tackling knife crime
On the 29th April 2022, FCRG members Todd Hogue and Lauren Smith, along with colleagues from the School of Social and Political Sciences (Tony Ellis, Sue Bond-Taylor and Carina O’Reilly), hosted a workshop to support to development of a new initiative to tackle knife-enabled crime in Lincolnshire, Think Sharp – which is being led by Lincolnshire Police.
The event was held at The Cathedral Centre and was the first of 2 workshops, attended by stakeholders with lived experience, and representatives from health, criminal justice and the local authorities, funded by the University of Lincoln’s allocation of the QR Policy Support Fund.
Tochukwu and Todd give invited talk at sexual offending conference
On the 4/5th April 2022, Todd Hogue and Tochukwu Onwuegbusi gave an invited presentation at 2022 New Directions in Sex Offenders Conference at the University of Birmingham.
Their talk covered the application of their newly developed data-driven eye tracking method to assess sexual interests.