Behind the cell door: Exploring how enhanced opportunities for self-led creativity impact on the mental wellbeing of adults living in prison.

牢房门背后：探索增强自我主导创造力的机会如何影响监狱中成年人的心理健康。

• 批准号: 2881151
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2881151
• 关键词: Behind; cell; door; Exploring; how

This research will explore the impact of creative 'in-cell' opportunities on the wellbeing of adults living in prison. Framed by socially engaged museum practice (Chynoweth, 2021), it will examine creativity rooted in the heritage of 'illicit' making in prisons (International Red Cross, 2017), utilising museum artefacts made in prison settings as a catalyst for connectivity and lived experience insight. The research follows an extended period of Covid 19 restrictions in English prisons, with people confined to cells for up to 23 hours a day (HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales Annual Report 2021-22). The tediousness of this experience, and lack of stimuli to take minds off confinement has contributed to rising levels of poor mental health with 1 in 3 prisoners showing symptoms of severe anxiety disorders (User Voice, 2022). With the increased 'cell-time', selfharm in prisons is at the second highest recorded level with 55,542 annual incidents in 2021 (Bromley Briefing, 2022). It is well documented 'that arts have a profound impact in improving the lives of people in the criminal justice system' (National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance, 2019), with research evidencing the positive impacts of group and practitioner led Page 3 of 6 therapeutic, rehabilitative, and educational art. This project fills a void to explore 'other types' (Fleetwood, 2020) of inventive creativity, to focus specifically on self led in-cell creativity, linked to the restorative benefits of making within a restricted regime. The inquiry will be guided by the following research questions, exploring how access to enriched creative opportunities behind the cell door might improve the wellbeing of adults living in prison: What are adults making in prison cells, of their own volition, with what, for what purpose? What are the wellbeing benefits of enabling opportunities for self-led making behind closed cell doors? What is preventing prison regimes from improving access and opportunity for people to make in their cells? What materials might be useful in performing the role of 'creative first aid' when the cell door closes? I will apply qualitative exploratory research methods underpinned by a reflexive autoethnographic approach (Ellis, C. et al, 2011), centering the lived experience of adults living and working in five mixed security prisons to determine the relevance and impact of crafting objects in-cell. Individual interviews with an intersectional sample of 70 prisoners and 20 staff members will sit alongside small group ideation sessions using design thinking tools (Tschimmel, 2012) museum objects, and creative materials to explore and map the emotional impact of making. The significance of this study lies in its potential to address how enhanced creative opportunities in-cell, inspired by prison made museum objects might have beneficial impacts to counterbalance 'harmful impacts of imprisonment on mental health' (World Health Organisation,2021). I aim for findings to contribute to an interdisciplinary research gap in the fields of museum studies and criminology, support research into socially engaged museum practice and use of artefacts as a source of compassionate creative connection with prison communities (Forster, Page 4 of 6 2016), inform improvements in HMPPS policy and wellbeing strategies and provide pathways to creative first aid for people living in prison.

这项研究将探讨创造性的“牢房内”机会对监狱中成年人的福祉的影响。它将以社会参与的博物馆实践为框架（Chynoweth，2021），将审视植根于监狱“非法”制作遗产的创造力（国际红十字会，2017），利用监狱环境中制作的博物馆文物作为连通性和生活体验的催化剂洞察力。这项研究是在英国监狱因新冠肺炎 (Covid 19) 疫情而实施长期限制之后进行的，人们每天被关在牢房内长达 23 小时（英格兰和威尔士监狱首席督察 2021-22 年度报告）。这种经历的乏味，以及缺乏让人们摆脱监禁的刺激，导致心理健康状况恶化，三分之一的囚犯表现出严重焦虑症的症状（用户之声，2022）。随着“牢房时间”的增加，监狱中的自残事件达到有记录以来的第二高水平，2021 年每年发生 55,542 起事件（Bromley Briefing，2022）。有据可查，“艺术对改善刑事司法系统中人们的生活具有深远的影响”（国家刑事司法艺术联盟，2019 年），研究证明了团体和从业者主导的积极影响第 3 页（共 6 页）康复和教育艺术。该项目填补了探索“其他类型”（Fleetwood，2020）创造性创造力的空白，特别关注自我主导的细胞内创造力，与在受限制度内进行创作的恢复性益处相关。调查将以以下研究问题为指导，探索牢房门后丰富的创造性机会如何改善监狱中成年人的福祉：成年人在监狱牢房中自愿、用什么、为了什么而创造什么？目的？在封闭的牢房门内提供自我主导的创造机会对福祉有何好处？是什么阻碍了监狱政权改善人们在牢房内进行活动的机会和机会？当牢房门关闭时，哪些材料可能有助于发挥“创意急救”的作用？我将应用以反思性自我民族志方法为基础的定性探索性研究方法（Ellis, C. et al, 2011），以在五个混合安全监狱中生活和工作的成年人的生活经历为中心，以确定在牢房内制作物品的相关性和影响。对 70 名囚犯和 20 名工作人员的交叉样本进行个人访谈，同时进行小组构思会议，使用设计思维工具（Tschimmel，2012）博物馆物品和创意材料来探索和绘制制作的情感影响。这项研究的意义在于它有可能解决受监狱制造的博物馆物品启发，增加牢房内的创造机会如何可能对抵消“监禁对心理健康的有害影响”产生有益的影响（世界卫生组织，2021）。我的目标是让研究结果有助于弥补博物馆研究和犯罪学领域的跨学科研究空白，支持对社会参与博物馆实践的研究，以及利用文物作为与监狱社区富有同情心的创造性联系的来源（Forster，第 4 页，共 6 页，2016 年） ，为 HMPPS 政策和福祉战略的改进提供信息，并为监狱中的人们提供创造性急救的途径。