Podcasts, Publications and Awards

We have appeared on the Two Norries Podcast and you can listen back here:

This is our own conversation we have recorded reflecting on the learning from our project. This might be particularly interesting for those interested in using participatory action research themselves.

We have received the Cork City prize for Lifelong Learning

Press and Publications:

‘Three former prisoners create 'life after prison' map of Cork city’, in Irish Examiner, December 2022
‘IRC Awards for Department of Sociology & Criminology!’, in UCC News, January 2022
‘Personal ‘maps’ of life after prison in Cork city created’, in UCC News, December 2022
Turnaround Project Lived Experience Podcast: ‘Katharina Swirak: From Migrant Women and United Nations to Youth Diversion and Inside Out’, on The Lived Experience
O'Rourke, P., Swirak, K. and Krenzer, U. (2023, forthcoming). ‘The ’soul-destroying’ release from prison into the void - a ‘walking map’ highlighting some of the systemic drivers of the prison-homelessness ‘swinging door’’, in the Republic of Ireland, in: Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.
Swirak, K., Kenny, T., O'Rourke, P. and Purcell, K. forthcoming, 2024). ‘Walking, Crime, Justice and Reintegration after Prison’, in: Walking as Critical Pedagogy. Routledge.

Sheila has presented on the CLEANSLATE CORK project as part of the Innovation Panel at the Probation Service Summit for Community Based Organisations 'Changing Lives in our Communities' on Friday April 28th 2023 in Croke Park.

Paul has featured in the Irish Times on his journey of Education and he mentions the CLEANSLATE PROJECT as well.