Dr Julie Parsons
Mid-Career Fellow 2016-17, Small Group Project 2021-22
Developing capitals through a Photographic e-Narrative (PeN) project at a prisoner/ex-offender resettlement scheme (RS)
In the interests of developing an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to the theory and practice of desistance, I aim to pilot a Photographic electronic Narrative (PeN) project with prisoners and ex-offenders (referred to as trainees) currently working at a rural land-based resettlement scheme (RS). The focus is on the interrelationship between forms of human, social and cultural capital in furthering pro-social aspirations and expectations.
More informationMaking Communities: an exploration of community building and collaborative approaches to re/integration after punishment
This proposal is to run a three-day workshop that brings together colleagues from the Universities of Plymouth, Glasgow, and Cambridge, as well as three organizations that work alongside criminalized individuals, in prison and/or the community 1. Vox Liminis, 2. LandWorks and 3. Learning Together. These three organizations have utilized a range of approaches when working alongside criminalized people and are commitment to supporting them in their desistance journeys, facilitating change in the perceptions of ‘offenders’ in the wider community and challenging their continued stigma and marginalisaiton. The main aim of the workshop is to explore the ways in which academic work, arts and activism can come together through generative or ‘making’ practices.
More informationResearch outcomes
Finishing Time, i-Poems and'the pains of release'into the community after punishment. Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) Bulletin, 22, 15.
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Biography
She started work at the University of Plymouth as a Lecturer in the Sociology of Health and Illness on a fractional contract, teaching sociology on the BSc (hons) nursing and midwifery programmes, followed by all of the other allied health professional programmes. She went full time in 2010 when she also began a PhD entitled An Auto/Biographical Study of Relationships with Food, which was completed in 2014.
Julie has extensive experience teaching a wide range of themes in sociology and the sociology of health and illness. Currently, she is responsible for teaching social identities and inequalities, as well as food and foodways for students enrolled in the BSc (Hons) in Sociology. She generally contributes to teaching in the areas of food culture, family, gender, health, lived experience, prison food and desistance from crime. Also, qualitative and innovative research methods, Auto/Biography and autoethnography.
Biographical details correct as of 16.03.26