


Agenda
Speakers at the 2025 Perrie Lectures will include:
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James Timpson, Prisons Minister, Ministry of Justice
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David Gauke, Chair of the Independent Sentencing Review
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Dominique Moran, Professor of Carceral Geography, University of Birmingham
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Veronique Aicha, Head of Social Impact, Rescaled

About The Perrie Lectures
The Perrie Lectures is an annual event which has the purpose of stimulating dialogue between criminal justice organisations, the voluntary sector and all those with an academic, legal or practical interest in people in prison and their families.
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The Perrie Lectures are named in honour of Bill Perrie, who retired from the Prison Service in 1978. He worked as a prison governor for 32 years, latterly at HMPs Hull, Long Lartin, and Winson Green, Birmingham. A sound practitioner, Bill contributed much to the development of hostels, working out schemes, and regimes for long term prisoners. Bill attended the lectures every year until his death in 1997.
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Since 1995, the Perrie Award has been presented annually during the day of the lectures. It has been given by the Perrie Lectures Committee to the person who has done most to promote an understanding of the work of the Prison Service, and pushed forward the development of penal policy.
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Through the Perrie Lectures and the Perrie Award, it is hoped that the care of people in prison can be improved, and penal policy, in its broadest sense, advanced.
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The text of the Perrie Lectures is produced in full as a special edition of the Prison Service Journal.
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The Perrie Lectures Committee is independent and non-profit making and is currently made up of the following members:
The Perrie Lectures Committee
Rachel Bell (chair)
Ministry of Justice
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Sarah Matheve
Koestler Trust
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Mike Kirby
Independent
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Femi Laryea-Adekimi
Prison Reform Trust
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Pauline Austin
New Bridge Foundation
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Anita Dockley
Independent
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Carlene Dixon
HMPPS
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Ralph Lubkowski
Sodexo Justice Services
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Lili Bidwell
MoJ
​Martin Kettle
HM Inspectorate of Prisons
Sarah Tiffin
Mitie
Mary Haley
HMP Grendon
Lesley Dixon
Independent
Kam Sarai
HMPPS
Colin Archer
Independent
Kate Gooch
University of Bath
Rosie Meek
Royal Holloway, University of London
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Olivia Phelps
HMPPS
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Third Sector
£40
Student
£40
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