Staff profile
Mr David Adlington-Rivers
Research Postgraduate
MSc, BSc (Hons), DipHE, CertHE, Cert Soc Sci, FMBPsS, ACMI
| Affiliation |
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| Research Postgraduate in the Department of Psychology |
Biography
David is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Durham University. He is a Full Member of the British Psychological Society, Associate Member of the Chartered Management Institute, and Academic Member of the Criminal Justice Alliance.
David is researching hope and desistance from crime for people released from prison into the community.
Previous research includes the experience of hope for prisoners using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis which is pending publication.
David has published a self-help book called 'Freedom is in the Mind' about the power of hope for people in prison, which is available in a number of prison libraries and Broadmoor Hospital. The book is founded on scientific hope theory and its benefits, and some developing ideas being researched. He has also written articles on hope for The Probation Institute and the Prison Service Journal.
Research interests
- Hope theory in forensic applications
- Transpersonal psychology
- Positive psychology
- Prisons and probation