I am a prison governor, currently employed as a Prison Subject Matter Expert (SME) with the Ministry of Justice Probation Reform Directorate and the Digital and Technology Team. I have been involved in reducing reoffending and in release and resettlement work with the HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) for over a decade. It is a professional interest and a personal obsession.

My Fellowship was centred on mentoring but it also covered numerous areas of resettlement after prison and reducing reoffending, as well as areas of policy and prison design. My purpose was to explore innovative and ground-breaking projects and initiatives in the USA.

Following my Fellowship, I have advised and presented to various people about the need for more imaginative resettlement approaches. I have built healthy and innovative reducing reoffending departments at prisons in the north-west. I assist with the HMPPS probation reforms and am also involved with the new prisons team.

My Fellowship gave me the confidence and courage to challenge the norms in resettlement practices in the British Prison Service and I believe I have helped to influence and encourage changes in a number of areas.