Workshop Overview

This workshop explores how creative practice and research enable novel forms of knowledge production in carceral settings. Providing researchers across career stages with opportunities to meet, share experiences and try out creative approaches for their own work, the workshop is open to all. Morning and afternoon sessions open with keynote speakers engaged in creative practice in carceral settings:

· Paula Harriot (Unlock),

· Laura Caulfield (Wolverhampton University), and

· Maria Adams (Doing Porridge, University of Surrey): Spaces of Creativity in Women’s Prisons

These in-depth presentations will be followed by practical workshops on:

· Silhouettes that Speak: Mapping Emotions, Building Bonds (Karen Hoecker Pérez)

· Arts & Abolitionist Futures (ally walsh)

We will close the day with a celebration of recent publications in carceral geography and an informal social gathering.

Have you published or edited a book, article, or creative work, or been inspired by a publication by someone in the CGWG network over the last academic year? If so, please let us know using this form. Submit your suggestions by Fri. July 18, 2025.