Health and Justice Academic Research

1. A pedagogic evaluation comparing face to face and online formats of a multi-professional offender personality disorder (OPD) higher education training programme (2023)

https://www.emerald.com/insight/search?q=sue+wheatcroft&showAll=true

Gary Lamph, Alison Elliott, Sue Wheatcroft, Gillian Rayner, Kathryn Gardner, Michael Haslam, Emma Jones, Mick McKeown, Jane Gibbon, Nicola Graham-Kevan, Karen Wright 

The Journal of Forensic Practice ISSN: 2050-8794 27 September 2023

2. Cancer in prison: barriers and enablers to diagnosis and treatment (The Lancet, 2024)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00119-6/fulltext

3. The Knot: an essay collection on multiple advantage (editor)

The-Knot-The-interconnectedness-of-poverty-trauma-and-multiple-disadvantage-FINAL.pdf (revolving-doors.org.uk)

4. Responses to Complex Emotional Needs in UK male prisons: A scoping review protocol v1

Abstract

Aim & Objectives: The aim of this review is to examine the scope of the literature and grey literature considering support for complex emotional needs in UK male prisons. The objectives to be completed in order to meet the aim are: i.) answer the review question: What commonly applied and novel provisions and interventions are available for those with CEN in male prisons? ii.) synthesise the evidence as a narrative synthesis with tabulation of the findings. Introduction: ‘Personality Disorder’ is a contentious and highly stigmatised diagnostic label which is increasingly referred to as Complex Emotional Needs (CEN). It is a psychological developmental disorder linked to adverse childhood events and early traumas and impacts negatively upon emotional functioning, relationships and life trajectories. People with CEN are high users of public services. There is no evidence for effective pharmaceutical treatments of CEN but there is growing evidence for effective psychological interventions. 96% of the prison population in the UK are men. It is estimated 70% have CEN but efforts to work more effectively with this group via the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway, are only available in the most complex, highest risk individuals. Accordingly, most CEN go undetected and unsupported. Despite calls for whole system approaches for CEN in UK prisons, little progress has been made outside the specialist OPD pathway. Inclusion/exclusion criteria: A search framed by keywords identified through a modified SPIDORS strategy will be used to identify relevant sources available in English. The review timespan will be limited to January 2011-2025.

5. Collaboration with people with lived experience of prison: reflections on researching cancer care in custodial settings