Delighted to announce that our multi-perspective qualitative paper about working with autistic individuals in prison-based interventions to address sexual offending has been published in @Sexual_Abuse_J! (@DrGayleDillon @belinda_winder @CraigHarper19)

🚨[New Publication]🚨 .I'm really proud to share that our recent @MoJGovUK commissioned national qualitative evaluation of the prison-based Thinking Skills Programme (TSP) has been published and is freely available here:.. @DerbyUni.

I was grateful to be invited to contribute to this piece of work, in collaboration with Nicole Renehan. Our section of the review covered 'Prison and Probation Based Behavioural Change Programmes for Neurodivergent Individuals' .@DerbyUni.

Thank you to @UCLanCJP for the invite to present at the #MOSOVO2025 annual conference. It was a brilliant day, with a firm applied focus on how we can enable #desistance and #change in people with sexual convictions. @DerbyUni #CASSPPR.

RT @UCLanCJP: ⁦@LPVinter⁩ closes proceedings at #MOSOVO2025. The final presentation is always a hard slot but Luke is smashing it!👏 https:/….

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This was a follow up to a multi perspective qualitative study we published late last year in @Sexual_Abuse_J (see . If you would like help accessing these papers or have found them useful for your practice at all, please let me know 😊.

Our latest #OpenAccess paper in the @JSATandF .Reports study re: relationships between autistic traits, experiences of prison climates, mental wellbeing & treatment readiness for prisoners w sexual convictions @CraigHarper19.@DrGayleDillon @belinda_winder.

@DerbyUni.

In the space of a week, I've had a paper accepted for publication in @JSATandF, presented a talk at the @BSC2024Strath conference in Glasgow, and, *most importantly by far(!!!)*, I had the absolute honour to marry @LVThurston!!! What a week!!!

Had the opportunity to facilitate a Criminology taster workshop today at @DerbyUni with some great Year 12 students from @RedhillAcademy. We did a little workshop centred around the theme of prisons. They were a really articulate and interactive bunch!

It has been a pleasure to deliver an invited talk at @UCLanCJP's Sexual Offending, Vulnerability and Policing conference. My talk explored why some autistic individuals engage in sexual crime, how they make sense of their offending, and what this may mean for prevention @DerbyUni

RT @ClareAllely: Join our great team!!!!!! Lecturer in Psychology (Forensic) at University of Salford

It was a privilege to be invited to present at the @DerbyUni University Professorial Council Summer Event as an "ascendant research research star". I outlined my research impacts & future plans, all re: enhancing support for #neurodivergent people in the #CriminalJusticeSystem 😊

RT @tpa_smith: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS:.Edited Collection on Neurodivergence and Criminal Justice. Please contact the editors, @tpa_s….

An MSc student of mine (Cerys) is still seeking participants for their research, investigating student perspectives on male rape. If you are currently a university student, aged 18 or over, please consider taking part.See for more.

Last week, we took @DerbyUni Criminology, Policing & Sociology students to Berlin, inc visits to the Stasi Prison Museum & Sachsenhausen. They really seemed to derive a sense of enrichment from the trip, & engaged fantastically with our tour guides- they really did Derby proud 😊

RT @nikitarenee37: 📢Still looking for participants for this project. The perspectives of neurodivergent-led organisations are really vital….

RT @DrMagdaSmusz: The 1st paper from my PhD project 'Broad Perspectives of the Experience of Romantic Relationships and Sexual Education in….

Pleased to share another new Open Access paper fresh off the press this week(!), regarding the identification and support of autistic people in the UK Criminal Justice system. See: