The 2010 Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship

Dr William George Lockitt has been awarded a 2010 Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to visit Norway, Sweden and Germany to investigate how technology is currently being used by education/training providers and prisons to enhance offender education and training.

The aim of the Fellowship is to gather good practice and develop this into a set of multimedia case studies. The case studies will be made available via this Web site, together with a set of discussion papers and other research data. It is hoped that the discussion papers will stimulate debate regarding the future use, relevance and availability of technology to offenders within prisons and on release into the community. A project Blog will also be available as the Fellowship develops.

Twelve Travelling Fellowships were awarded in the ‘vocational’ category and the Director General, Jamie Balfour said:

‘The standard this year was high and we awarded grants only where we felt confident the candidates proposals would bring real benefits to other people, as well as themselves. You should therefore feel rightly proud of your success’

Future developments

The project is already attracting interest within the UK and It is hoped to incorporate the research findings of the Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship with the experience of using technology in prisons and the community within the UK to develop transferable models of good practice.

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