In July 2025 the Imagining Possible Futures team shared some initial pilot studies at the annual British Society of Criminology conference. In partnership with Experience for Justice, a collective dedicated to promoting radical change in the criminal justice system through prioritising the perspectives of individuals and groups with lived expertise, we:
✨️Shared a co-created Manifesto for Coproducing Knowledge of Criminal Justice. This manifesto was creatively developed through workshops with FACT Liverpool and a design sprint with Interactive Academia.
✨️Highlighted the urgent need to review the (10 year old) BSC ethics framework in partnership with those most impacted.
✨️Shared hopes for a world beyond vulnerability and deficit lenses: toward one which recognises contributors’ agency and provides real choices about forms of involvement, shared networks and ownership, fair pay and inclusivity.
We also discussed a forthcoming collaborative textbook we are working on with scholars and practitioners from Australia, England, Ireland and Scotland.
✨️Kemi and Lucy shared a video of co-authors James and Dwayne and introduced how we have been working on the (autoethnographic) book to date.
✨️Authors highlighted the strengths and challenges of our collaborative approach with writers who have different backgrounds and approaches, and discussed the value of monthly discussions and investing in the group dynamic, so that deeply personal things can be jointly reviewed with both care and rigour.
✨️Authors facilitated a discussion with the audience, which highlighted the importance of themes such as rehabilitation and recovery movements; long term impacts of living with a criminal record; a lack of agreement on what ‘lived experience is’ and how far the lived experience movement is decolonising knowledge production; ethics and inclusivity.
Watch this space for publication news!
