Professor Philippa Tomczak

I research prison suicide, prison regulation and the criminal justice voluntary sector. Enthusiastic. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. European Research Council PI.

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

I think this has been the hardest article I’ve ever written. Particular thanks to @MFBosworth and @TraynorCathie for input https://t.co/ZfamsKaLJy

[Heather Self @hselftax]

The problem this has highlighted is the complex border between health and social care needs, with two radically different funding systems. The fact that it takes 187 pages to define the border is telling.

Any change to social care funding is not going to be easy.

13/n

[WPB @ICPRWPB]

New Zealand - More will die in prison if mental health bed shortage continues - Ombudsman https://t.co/l59sCOyWoF

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

I wrote about horrendous manifestations of this in https://t.co/NWzl4N04JN

[HMI Prisons @HMIPrisonsnews]

People with severe mental illness who need urgent treatment are being remanded to prison and left waiting excessive periods for hospital places.

Last month, @charlie_taylor6 wrote to ministers calling for urgent action

Read the press release: https://t.co/0xuDDctT6Q

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

we have put together an important report that informs how to start doing death data and investigations differently. This is an important step towards the refreshed canon that is long overdue

Please let us know if you find this helpful and watch the play! https://t.co/wz3xPoFJ5I

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

we need to start interrogating death data and investigations themselves and move away from reproducing the same old recommendations. We need to look at what recommendations and datasets are obscuring and think about whether those omissions could change the game.

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

we need to start interrogating death data and investigations themselves and move away from reproducing the same old recommendations. We need to look at what recommendations and datasets are obscuring and think about whether those omissions could change the game.

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

I've been working on prisoner death data&investigations for (too) long.

tinkering within the current range of solutions isnt a solution. More collation or follow up of existing investigation recommendations won’t be transformative because the recommendations are suboptimal

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

I've been working on prisoner death data&investigations for (too) long.

tinkering within the current range of solutions isnt a solution. More collation or follow up of existing investigation recommendations won’t be transformative because the recommendations are suboptimal

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

Released alongside the tour of Woodhill, the award-winning play by LUNG, our new report – ‘How recording inequalities can reduce prisoner deaths’ - highlights that equality data is an essential foundation for evidence-based action to prevent deaths https://t.co/wz3xPoFJ5I

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

Released alongside the tour of Woodhill, the award-winning play by LUNG, our new report – ‘How recording inequalities can reduce prisoner deaths’ - highlights that equality data is an essential foundation for evidence-based action to prevent deaths https://t.co/wz3xPoFJ5I

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

Volunteer monitoring of police and prison detention: Independent custody visitors and independent monitoring boards in England and Wales. https://t.co/fgIH9MhNvx Open access!

[Matt Dinan @second_sailing]

Recycling some advice from one of my grad school profs for my own students: "You're going to write the entire thing in six weeks, anyway. Why not this six?"

[Hannah Barnes @hannahsbee]

Only just seen this via ⁦@BirthTrauma. New analysis shows⁩ maternal death (during or soon after pregnancy) rates in UK 20% higher in 2022-24 than 2009-11, when the UK government set an ambition to halve the rate of maternal deaths in England by 2025 https://t.co/xovThqy6kt

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

I am advertising a funded PhD studentship! https://t.co/y4nnZBwWfQ

'In the shadow of the penal state: A systematic historical analysis of the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales'. Please do share with potential candidates
#phd #esrc

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

Most academics believe the big lie about writing blocks.

They think they need 4-hour stretches to make progress.

So they wait for breaks. Wait for sabbatical. Wait for summer.

Meanwhile, their drafts collect dust and their ideas go stale.

Here's what actually works:

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

It is PhD funding and postdoc application time! My interests are... eclectic, but if you are seeking to research criminal justice detention - particularly deaths, regulation/oversight/monitoring/accountability, voluntary sector involvement - give me a shout!

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

I will be at the European Society of Criminology conference in Athens from Tuesday. Come to our roundtable on Thursday (930-1045)! Or take advantage of one of my septennial (approx.) sociable periods and let's get coffee: detention regulation/oversight, detainee deaths etc

[Professor Paul Crawford @ProfessorPaulC1]

An important paper that shouldn’t be missed. Objecting to the use of ‘excited delirium’ as a cover for restraint-induced deaths.

https://t.co/yf2ZhO3GA5

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

seeking a postdoc to join my European Research Council Starting Grant team! Closing 16/7, can apply at Research Associate, Fellow or Senior Fellow grade.

https://t.co/GVuOvGhG30

Please share!

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

seeking a postdoc to join my European Research Council Starting Grant team! Closing 16/7, can apply at Research Associate, Fellow or Senior Fellow grade.

https://t.co/GVuOvGhG30

Please share!

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

seeking a postdoc to join my European Research Council Starting Grant team! Closing 16/7, can apply at Research Associate, Fellow or Senior Fellow grade.

https://t.co/GVuOvGidSy

Please share!

[Professor Philippa Tomczak @PhilippaTomczak]

seeking a postdoc to join my European Research Council Starting Grant team! Closing 16/7, can apply at Research Associate, Fellow or Senior Fellow grade.

https://t.co/GVuOvGidSy

Please share!

[Robert Howard @ProfRobHoward]

The issue truly is a lack of mental health beds - no matter how NHSE try to dress it up. Without investing in more inpatient capacity, these “Mental Health A&Es” will become holding facilities for people who really need an admission. A kind of corridor care home treatment team.