Keiran is a registered senior social worker practising primarily within prison and informal education settings.

Keiran has developed and delivered radical social work informed interventions for over 15 years, and has continuously used his practice experience to assist academics and universities undertaking both qualitative and quantitative research evaluations and reports.

Keiran is the lead diversity and inclusion consultant to Hertfordshire Essex and Suffolk prisons, where his practice includes developing strategies towards addressing disproportionality in young people entering custody from marginalised communities.

Significant to this aspect of Keiran’s practice in this area is raising the awareness of criminogenic factors associated to young people entering custody. This includes:

• understanding risk of violent crime exposure for school-excluded children living in high-crime areas;
• addressing the impact of unaddressed trauma on childhood development; and
• creating opportunities for ‘knowledge-transfer’ between prisons/prisoners and community organisations working to support prison diversion for at risk young people.

Keiran has also shared his knowledge, experience and skills with various advisory groups, including: the Young Review advisory group, those leading the delivery of the 2017/2018 Lammy Review recommendations towards reducing the proportion of BAME offenders in the criminal justice system', and the former Youth Justice Board: Serious Youth and Gang Violence Committee.

Most recently, Keiran has worked closely with academics such as Professor Darrick Jolliffe in evaluating his work on community centred desistance, creating safe, transformative spaces and deconstructing prisoner narratives.

We are working with Keiran on the evaluation of Future Men's Boys Development Programme on behalf of the Youth Endowment Fund.