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UK funding (£80,484): Disseminating "Design Thinking for Prison Industries" through Teaching Resources, Delivery Models and Training for Trainers Ukri1 Feb 2017 UK Research and Innovation, United Kingdom
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Disseminating "Design Thinking for Prison Industries" through Teaching Resources, Delivery Models and Training for Trainers
| Abstract | This Follow-on Funding (FoF) application seeks to develop for dissemination the models, methods, tools and approaches piloted and iterated within the AHRC-funded 'Design Thinking for Prison Industries' project, led by Professors Gamman and Thorpe at the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC), University of the Arts London, in collaboration with Praveen Nahar, at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. The aim of the project is to extend the positive impact of the 'Design Thinking for Prison Industries' (DTPI) programme by 'scaling out' the delivery model to prison staff and those delivering criminal justice education programmes from public, private and third sector organisations in the UK. We will do this by developing the educational resources for digital dissemination and further refining the delivery, volunteering and enterprise models created and tested within the pilot project. Fulfillment of this aim requires the development and dissemination of three elements of the DTPI programme: A. Models i. The unique DTPI model for design education developed within a prison industries setting, communicating the 'theory of change' linked to 'design thinking and making' as restorative/transformative enterprise. This approach can help inmates understand different ways of being self-employed and the entrepreneurial opportunities available to them. ii. The model for equipping postgraduate prison volunteers with the necessary skills to provide mentoring and one-to-one facilitation of inmate learners, within a design-led DTPI programme, is unique. This model also offers a proven and pragmatic way of delivering the 'graduates into prison agenda' recommended by the Coates Review (2016), commissioned by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to improve effective education in prison. iii. The social enterprise model developed within the existing DTPI programme offers a new way for prison industries to meet the additional costs of programmes such as 'Makeright', a DTPI sub-project which enables inmates to co-design and produce commercial anti-theft bags (www.makeright.org) to support sustainability in a climate of economic austerity. B. Resources The FoF project will further develop and share the Makeright learning and teaching resources that deliver design thinking education that aims to build inmate empathy, resilience and entrepreneurship, as well as teaching for anti-theft bag design within UK prison textiles studios. The existing resources have been iteratively developed via the AHRC/British Council (Unbox) and Serco-funded pilot at HMP Thameside, London, and Sabarmati Jail, Ahmedabad. Whilst our evaluation of them shows that they are effective, we now need to re-design them in a form that is appropriate and accessible for use by other qualified delivery agencies in prison industry settings. The objective is to work with these agencies in the development and testing of the resources before finalisation. C. Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and DTPI Training Module The project will also develop and test a 'train the trainer' programme for those in prison, design education and third sector agencies wanting to deliver similar projects based on our resources connected to local prison industry settings. Inmates who have worked on Makeright, when interviewed, tell us that they recognise that self-employment may be the most viable route to employment for them once they leave prison, in part because of stigma attached to being an ex-offender. Consequently, the Makeright knowledge exchange model and strategy has the capacity to build resilience and so is incredibly useful to prisons struggling to find employment for inmates. |
| Category | Research Grant |
| Reference | AH/R00157X/1 |
| Status | Closed |
| Funded period start | 01/02/2017 |
| Funded period end | 31/07/2018 |
| Funded value | £80,484.00 |
| Source | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR00157X%2F1 |
Participating Organisations
| University of the Arts London | |
| Stretch Digital | |
| National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad | |
| HM Prison Service | |
| University of the Arts London | |
| Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce | |
| SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY | |
| Bath Spa University | |
| Here Design | |
| HMP Doncaster |
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