Criminal Research: Creating Communities of Practice - 300 word statement

The Criminal Research: Communities of Practice research project involved the creation of learning spaces that were both creatively stimulating and methodologically replicable in international prison environments with inmate practitioners. These programmes, one based on the workshop method, and the other based on the atelier method providing prisoners with a series of ‘Masterclasses’, culminated in three separate anthologies of prisoner work, encouraging prisoner participation in an ongoing community of literary practice.